Tag: Piano
Carl Maria von Weber: Bringing the Piano into the Romantic Theatre
John Field: Inventing the Sound of Night Before Chopin
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: After Mozart and Before Chopin
Ludwig van Beethoven: Writing a Life into Thirty-Two Sonatas
Jan Ladislav Dussek: A Traveller Between Classical and Romantic Worlds
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Turning the Piano Concerto into Public Drama
Muzio Clementi: An Early Architect of Modern Pianism
Joseph Haydn: Teaching the Piano Sonata to Think
A Conversation on Absolute Pitch, Relative Pitch, Tonality and Transposition
This discussion began with the different systems of solfège commonly used in popular songs and classical piano. It then moved into absolute pitch, relative pitch, tonal perception, transposition and register. Along the way, Geoff and Vale corrected an easy misunderstanding: when transposition changes the brightness or weight of music, the difference may not come from the name of the key itself. It may come instead from a change in register and in the physical sound that reaches the listener.