Use your computer keyboard or click the piano keys to play the piano. The keyboard's top row of letters corresponds to the white keys, and the row of numbers corresponds to the black keys. You can play multiple notes simultaneously.
Click "Hide note names" above the piano to hide the note names. Click "Mark" to mark notes on the piano. Play the marked notes by clicking the "Play" button (only visible after notes have been marked) or pressing the spacebar on your keyboard.
Try our free piano exercises and learn to play notes, intervals, chords, and scales on the piano. You'll also find a variety of other exercises that will expand your musical understanding and help you become better at playing the piano.
Colors, rhythms, nuances and emotions unfolded through the keyboard. Piano legends coexist with new references, with programs that review centuries of musical heritage and dazzling programs. Sokolov, Alice Sara Ott, Volodos, Buchbinder, Tharaud, Avdeeva, Seong Jin Cho and many more... life on a keyboard!
On this site there are internal cookies and third-party cookies.
If you want to know more or deny all or some cookie, CLICK HERE.
If you want to know more about our privacy policy, CLICK HERE.
By closing this banner, scrolling through this page or clicking on any item you are accepting the use of cookies. Close
In 1993, the City of Rome launched an international invitations competition (9 participants) for the creation of a multifunctional complex designed to host musical and cultural events. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop project introduces a novelty to the call for tenders: do not group the three rooms in one building, but make three independent buildings. The three rooms are arranged symmetrically around an empty space. There is a fourth room, Cavea, an open-air amphitheater for performances and concerts, where about 3,000 spectators can be found. The three halls are conceived as real musical instruments. There are three large harmonic boxes, with different capacities and features, structurally separated to enhance acoustic insulation.
The ancient remains of a Roman Villa from the Republican age were found during the digging of the foundation. Accordingly, adjusted his scheme widening the space between the two of his auditoriums, to exhibit the archeological dig on permanent, open-air
If you enroll here for lessons, we will work with you to make a plan that will fit your needs and musical preferences. At the first piano lesson your teacher will ask you about your favorite type of music, and set goals to help accomplish whatever musical aspirations you have for yourself or your child.
It's great for piano students to start with a full size piano. The hammer action of the weighted keys builds the finger strength of the students and provides much stronger technical development. However, spending considerable amount of money on a piano is not an appealing prospect.
Keyboards are a more budget friendly and is suitable for beginners to start practicing with. It is recommended that the keyboard you practice with has full sized weighted keys. Teachers will advise parents when the potential of the student has developed past the keyboard.
At OC Musica, our youngest piano students start from three years old. It's a good idea to start piano lessons when the child is able to sit down, focus for at least 15 minutes in a classroom environment and is willing to learn/practice.
Our teachers have received their education from prestigious institutions. Many of our instructors have gone on performance tours of the US and Europe and have over 25 years of professional performance and teaching experience. In addition to their teaching credentials, our teachers have warm personalities, are extremely friendly and strive to get to know each student and their parent on a personal level.
Recitals boost confidence! Taking part in a recital helps performers to overcome shyness, fear, anxiety and stage fright. It gives students a chance to showcase all of their hard work, dedication, and progress throughout the year. As children experience getting on stage, performing for an audience, and being applauded for their efforts, they gain self-confidence that will carry with them in all aspects of school and life.
We offer a variety of opportunities for our students to perform in a confidence-boosting and supportive setting. We have many recitals every year, our two Annual Recital in the Summer and a Winter Recital at the end of the year to showcase our students' progress. Students will also receive a trophy at the annual recital.
In addition to annual recitals held at an outside venue, we regularly host mini-recitals at Recital Hall of the school. This will give our students many more performance opportunities throughout the year. We always make sure that students get to perform on a grand piano. For our students these recitals are free.
Cremona Musica takes place this month. This international exhibition is widely considered to be the largest marketplace in the world for fine quality musical instruments. Last year the show attracted over 17,000 visitors and included over 300 exhibitors from 30 different countries.
The northern Italian city of Cremona is steeped in musical history, which dates back to the 12th century. In the 16th century, it became renowned for musical instrument manufacture and was the home of the Stradavarius violin. Various festivals and music-related events have today made it a world-famous heritage destination.
This is billed as the one and only trade fair exclusively dedicated to the piano world. It has evolved in partnership with AIARP (Italian Association of Piano Tuners and Repairers), in conjunction with the leading piano manufacturers, music institutions, and conservatoires. Here the piano community (instrument makers, distributors, buyers, and musicians) can exchange ideas and both update and forge new business links.
In addition to the presence of various piano luminaries, there will be a display of ancient pianos and keyboard instruments. These will include replicas of the 1726 Cristofori and 1789 Anton Walter pianos. The organisers also hope to stage a couple of seminars on the evolution and history of keyboard instruments.
Hello, how can I get to Cremona Musica International exhibitions?
Where exactly will it be? Which country?
It appears to be such a fascinating event but I cannot find the further info on the website.
Musica battuta or 'Beaten Music' was especially composed for Antonietta Loffredo (Como, Italy) for the 2016 'Multiple Keyboards' Project (Sydney, Australia) curated by Australian composer, pianist, harpsichordist and writer Diana Blom in association with Australian composer, keyboardist and music researcher Michael Hannan. The work serves as an exploration of the musical implications of combinatoriality as an organizational determinant via the utilization of mathematician Joel Haak's combinatorial analysis of American composer Steve Reich's rhythmic pattern from Clapping Music (1972), while additionally adopting the novel harmonic concept of 'All-Interval Tetrachords and Other Homometries' from American minimalist composer and music theorist (also former student of Morton Feldman) Tom Johnson, eloquently presented in his publication Other Harmony: Beyond Tonal and Atonal (2014).
In The Geometry of Music Rhythm: What Makes a 'Good' Rhythm Good? (2013) Godfried T. Toussaint presents the back ground to a combinatorial analysis by mathematician Joel Haak of American composer Steve Reich's rhythmic pattern from Clapping Music (1972) [x x x . x x . x . x x .], which states that because there are "eight claps per cycle of 12 pulses in Clapping Music" means that the combinatorial possibilities (or "ways one can select 8 out of 12 pulses") may be mathematically represented by the equation (12!)/(8!)(4!)=495. This figure, the result of an adherence to two separate conditions: (1) that the pattern begins with a note and not a rest, and (2), that the pattern does not contain a rest larger than one pulse between two consecutive onsets (or sounded pulses). Toussaint explains that with "these two constraints, the original 12 units, composed of eight claps and four rests, are reduced to eight units made up of four clap-rest patterns [x .] and four solitary claps [.]," adding that "in this setting, there are now only eight two-valued elements taken four at a time, and thus the formula for the total number of possible patterns becomes 8!/((4!)(4!))=70." Hack then introduces a third condition into his analysis: that the pattern should not be a cyclic permutation of another pattern (i.e. a clockwise or anti-clockwise rotation), which effectively reduces the total number of admissible patterns from 70 to 10. A fourth condition is then introduced: that the "combined 12-pulse clapping patterns made by both performers should not repeat themselves before the ending of the piece." In other words, as one player in Clapping Music systematically rotates the rhythmic pattern by a pulse (or the incremental rhythmic displacement of the pattern against a static version of the pattern), no combination of these two patterns results in repetition of canonic materials. A fifth condition then eliminates the possibility of consecutive repeats of any particular rhythmic cell, which finally results in the reduction from 495 possible patterns to 2: Reich's Clapping Music pattern and [x x x x . x . x x . x .]; the latter, or alternative pattern being the pattern adopted in Musica battuta.
Su piano y su msica is a studio album by Armando Manzanero. It was released in 1968 by Arcano Records, and RCA Victor.[1] In 2015, it was selected by Billboard magazine, as one of the "50 Essential Latin Albums of the Last 50 Years".[2] The original recording of "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.[3]
The course is open to pianists of all ages and repertoire predilections. The pieces indicated at the time of enrolment will be studied individually, observing the technical, stylistic and interpretative aspects. There are no maximum limits on the amount of repertoire to be proposed: it will be agreed with the teachers on which pieces to focus particular attention; the minimum limit is fifteen to twenty minutes of music.
d3342ee215