Don't you think at times that there are three hands playing at once on the p!
Question: Don't you think at times that there are three hands playing at once on the piano!? Please comment!?
I'll give you examples!.!.
Dvorak Piano Concerto
Liszt's Piano Concerto ·1
Most of Liszt's compositions
Please comment and which ones would you add!?!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
Dvorak Piano Concerto
Liszt's Piano Concerto ·1
Most of Liszt's compositions
Please comment and which ones would you add!?!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
for the pieces that you listed!.!. prolly not!.!. those are solo compositions!.!. with the orchestra!.!. but its only one person playing the piano!.!. there are trios however!.!. or instances where there are three people playing three pianos or more (like the browns)!.!. but for concertos!.!. and i've played many of liszts pieces!.!. it's only one person!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I understand what you're saying-- yes, sometimes a performer can bring out the details of the music well enough that it sounds like more than one person playing!. I suppose your examples work, but you obviously haven't heard a deeply contrapuntal work like a fugue!.
A fugue is a piece written so that each voice is sort of like an independant melody, which functions on its own!. In contrast to most other pieces (in which harmony is intentionally created, and only the melody needs voice-leading), a fugue creates harmony through counterpoint, which is the juxtaposition of different voices on top of each other!. Each voice should enter with the original statement of the melody or some variation of it, and that statement will probably be woven into the music multiple times throughout the piece!.
So with all that in mind, consider some of Bach's pieces!. In the Well-Tempered Klavier, most fugues have three voices; there are a few with two and four, but there are at least three with five (!) voices!. A performer playing this piece has to keep track of every voice, noticing each time the melody passes to a certain voice and bringing that out!. Five voices is increadibly difficult to balance!. If you listen to good performance of a fugue while following on the music, you'll find that it does indeed sound like multiple people playing, almost like a chamber music piece, with each instrumentalist playing one voice!.
From there, we get even more extreme, like the Contrapunctus XIV from Bach's 'The Art of Fugue'!. Not only did this have four voices, it also was supposed to utilize four different melodic fragments, for a total of sixteen entrances and an untold number of intricate superimpositions and strettos!. Unfortunately, he died before he could show us how the last melody would enter!.
There are some even more amazing fugues out there, like that one by Alkan (can't remember its name) that has eight voices!. Yes, many pieces of music have passages where you play eight notes as once, but not considering each one as a seperate movement of melody!.
Liszt may be hard to play, but any pianst can tell you that a well-executed fugue is the most respectable and challenging accomplishment that a performer can overcome!. I personally enjoy the notion of having a third hand, which would facilitate these fugues quite a bit!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
A fugue is a piece written so that each voice is sort of like an independant melody, which functions on its own!. In contrast to most other pieces (in which harmony is intentionally created, and only the melody needs voice-leading), a fugue creates harmony through counterpoint, which is the juxtaposition of different voices on top of each other!. Each voice should enter with the original statement of the melody or some variation of it, and that statement will probably be woven into the music multiple times throughout the piece!.
So with all that in mind, consider some of Bach's pieces!. In the Well-Tempered Klavier, most fugues have three voices; there are a few with two and four, but there are at least three with five (!) voices!. A performer playing this piece has to keep track of every voice, noticing each time the melody passes to a certain voice and bringing that out!. Five voices is increadibly difficult to balance!. If you listen to good performance of a fugue while following on the music, you'll find that it does indeed sound like multiple people playing, almost like a chamber music piece, with each instrumentalist playing one voice!.
From there, we get even more extreme, like the Contrapunctus XIV from Bach's 'The Art of Fugue'!. Not only did this have four voices, it also was supposed to utilize four different melodic fragments, for a total of sixteen entrances and an untold number of intricate superimpositions and strettos!. Unfortunately, he died before he could show us how the last melody would enter!.
There are some even more amazing fugues out there, like that one by Alkan (can't remember its name) that has eight voices!. Yes, many pieces of music have passages where you play eight notes as once, but not considering each one as a seperate movement of melody!.
Liszt may be hard to play, but any pianst can tell you that a well-executed fugue is the most respectable and challenging accomplishment that a performer can overcome!. I personally enjoy the notion of having a third hand, which would facilitate these fugues quite a bit!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
NO, b/c I'm a pianist and i guess I just don't hear it like thatWww@Enter-QA@Com