Music #509 - Instruments - Keyboards

Keyboard instrument

Electronic dance pad/mat

 

 

Been a “butterfly” on your own electronic dance pad at home?

Upright piano 

(L) The Flight of the Bumblebee 

from The Tale of Tsar Saltan opera (by Rimsky-Korsakov)

- clip from 'Shine' 《鋼琴師》(1996 movie)

 

(R) Una Furtiva Lagrima 

from L'Elisir d'Amore opera (by Donizetti)

- clip from 'That Midnight Kiss' (1949 film) 

- pianist as accompanist 

(L) Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata - III

- excerpt from “Keys to the Heart” (2017 movie)

  

(R) Excerpt from "A Night at the Opera" (1935 film)

(L) The Entertainer 

- a ragtime by Scott Joplin 

 

(R) resurrected in 'The Sting' (1973 film)

/ 《老千計狀元才》
starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford

Top 10 most difficult piano pieces

 

Standardized pitch

The letter-name “A” is given to the pitch of 440 cycles per cycle, which is produced by a key just to the right of the middle of the piano keyboard. This is a standard universal measure of pitch.

Grand piano

(including concert grand)

(L) Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1

Excerpt from “Keys to the Heart” (2017 movie)

 

(R) Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Spring

Chopin - Nocturne No.20 

(L) Excerpt from "The Pianist" (2002 movie)

cf.

(L) Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata - I 

- excerpt from “Immortal Beloved” (1994 movie)

L

(R) Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2

The Cat Concerto

(L) Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.5 (“Spring”) - Mvt.1

- who accompanies whom? 

 
(R) Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5  

(aka the "Emperor")

Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on Themes of Paganini 

(Caprice No.24)

- Variation No.18 (of 24) 

  

(R) Excerpt from the “ Somewhere in Time” (1980 movie)

 (L) Wilhelm Ganz - Qui Vive! Grand Galop 

 

(R) Chopin - Minute Waltz

The Marx Brothers' piano scene

in The Big Store (1941 movie)

Excerpts from “Secret” / 不能說的秘密 (2007 movie)

(L) Chopin - Valse Op.64 No.2 & Etude Op.10 No.5, 

& J.R. Morton - The Crave

 

(R) "On shells rain" - four hands - score

30 most famous classical piano pieces

 

Organ

J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue (BWV 565) 

 

 

Davy Jones (a fictional character computer-animated) 

in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series

Accordion

(L) Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Winter

 
(R) Katyusha (Soviet Multiple Rocket)

 

(R) bandoneón, Argentina's national instrument  

Digital piano

(L) Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska - A Maiden’s Prayer

 

(R) Autumn Leaves

 

 

Keytar 

Toy piano

 

A piano made of popsicle sticks

Orchestrion

 

 

Early Keyboards

(L) Clavichord   

Mozart's B flat Sonata, K.570

 

(R) Harpsichord

(web photo)