Piano Definition–noun, plural -an⋅os. | a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings. | |
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Music Definition–noun | 1. | an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. | | 2. | the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both. | | 3. | musical work or compositions for singing or playing. | | 4. | the written or printed score of a musical composition. | | 5. | such scores collectively. | | 6. | any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound: the music of the waves. | | 7. | appreciation of or responsiveness to musical sounds or harmonies: Music was in his very soul. | | 8. | Fox Hunting. the cry of the hounds. | —Idiom | 9. | face the music, to meet, take, or accept the consequences of one's mistakes, actions, etc.: He's squandered his money and now he's got to face the music. | |
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a keyboard musical instrument having wire strings that sound when struck by felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard. The standard modern piano contains 88 keys and has a compass of seven full ...
music
art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony.square piano
musical instrument that was popular for domestic music-making from the time of its invention in the mid-18th century (possibly by the Saxon organ-builder Ernst Christian Friderici) to about 1860 in ...
player piano
a piano that mechanically plays music recorded by means, usually, of perforations on a paper roll or digital memory on a computer disc.aleatory music
(aleatory from Latin alea, "dice"), 20th-century music in which chance or indeterminate elements are left for the performer to realize. The term is a loose one, describing compositions with strictly ...
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in a narrow sense, the music of the Turkish military establishment, particularly of the Janissaries, an elite corps of royal bodyguards (disbanded 1826); in a broad sense, a particular repertory of ...
chamber music
music composed for small ensembles of instrumentalists. In its original sense chamber music referred to music composed for the home, as opposed to that written for the theatre or church. Since the ...
gospel music
a form of black American music derived from church worship services and from spiritual (q.v.) and blues singing. Gospel music spread through song publishing, concerts, recordings, and radio and ...
electronic music
any music involving electronic processing, e.g., recording and editing on tape, and whose reproduction involves the use of loudspeakers.microtonal music
music using tones in intervals that differ from the standard semitones (half steps) of a tuning system or scale. In the division of the octave established by the tuning system used on the piano, ...
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