(n.) A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects were right- or left-handed, males or females in experiments I and right-handed female typists, pianists, or controls in experiment II.
(2) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(3) The grouping structure, which prescribes the location of major tempo changes, and the parabolic timing function, which represents a natural manner of executing such changes, seem to be the two major constraints under which pianists are operating.
(4) He might not be the hard-drinking rockstar of old but classically-trained pianist James Blake proved that cerebral compositions on a keyboard are no barrier to success after he was crowned winner of the coveted Barclaycard Mercury prize .
(5) Over the years he has played with famous musicians including John Williams, Robert Mitchell and Jools Holland, and been asked to jam with Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist who was a member of the Buena Vista Social Club.
(6) Alan M Dershowitz, who has represented heiress Patty Hearst and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, is asking to represent the 81-year-old director of Chinatown and The Pianist in the Los Angeles county superior court.
(7) The new piece, Piano for Children, is scored for strings and John Constable, the Sinfonietta's star pianist.
(8) In a rare interview with Vanity Fair, the Oscar-winning director of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist said the arrest hit him harder than any incident since the murder of his wife Sharon Tate by the Manson family in 1969, as well as the subsequent media circus that followed.
(9) Worried that the song was too short, Gabler asked pianist Sonny White to improvise a suitably stealthy introduction.
(10) She reads: “The look in his eyes was as much as we could take…” Pollock sighs: “Oh, that’s really desperate.” There was also the case of 10-year-old Curtis Elton, a talented pianist whose hands have been insured.
(11) I keep it at home in Atlanta,” the composer-pianist says, though the notion of home elicits an audible sigh.
(12) Since then, Polanski, a dual French and Polish citizen, has lived and worked in France and Switzerland and elsewhere, and accepted his 2002 best director Academy Award for The Pianist via satellite.
(13) Sonny Rollins, the original headliner, has had to pull out for health reasons, but the 10-day event comfortably maintains its world-class, star-packed stature with artists including the legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter with the BBC Concert Orchestra, pianist Brad Mehldau playing a rare synthesiser show, guitarist John McLaughlin and percussionist Zakir Hussain celebrating the pioneering east-west Shakti group, composer Carla Bley in a trio with bassist Steve Swallow and Britain's Andy Sheppard, and dozens more international stars, creative locals and newcomers appearing all over the city.
(14) Polanski's film credits include Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and the Oscar-winning Holocaust drama The Pianist.
(15) In the first experiment, pianists and control subjects were given sequential tactile stimuli and were asked to report the simulated fingers and the order.
(16) 1990s: Colors, with Joachim Kuhn Facebook Twitter Pinterest From 1958 – when Coleman briefly played on the West Coast in Paul Bley’s Hillcrest Club band – to the mid-90s, the saxophonist steered clear of pianists.
(17) Dotted among Dilla's compositions are two pieces by minimalist French pianist and phonometrician (someone who measures sounds), Erik Satie.
(18) Like many occupying music's avant-garde edges, Sharp has a lot of time for the visionaries - people like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Sergey Kuryokhin, the Russian jazz pianist who, until his death in 1996, led the band Pop Mechanica.
(19) The fact that the man concerned carries a French passport and was responsible for Cul-de-Sac, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown , The Tenant, Tess and The Pianist might also have something to do with it.
(20) The author, a professional flutist and psychologist, interviewed four pianists noted for their sight-reading abilities.
Piano
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
(a.) Alt. of Pianoforte
Example Sentences:
(1) However, because my film was dominated by a piano, I didn't want the driving-strings sound he'd used for Greenaway.
(2) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(3) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(4) What is there now is more like the designs that Piano produced almost 12 years ago than seemed likely.
(5) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
(6) The relationship between final hammer velocity and maximum amplitude of radiated piano sound was investigated.
(7) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
(8) When he sits back at the piano and plays Raspberry Beret and Starfish and Coffee and Girls and Boys, they’re beside themselves, and understandably so: he sounds magnificent.
(9) In Piano's case, the answer is clear, and he has wasted no time in setting it in motion.
(10) I used to teach piano to two girls across the road,” says Boyle.
(11) Soon my piano lessons had turned into me, an obstinate 11-year old, demanding that my neighbour teach me ever-more intricate DOS commands.
(12) Collectively known as "the Huntsman girls" the three young women – piano teacher Mary Anne, public relations expert Abby and fashion industry hopeful Liddy – have campaigned actively for their father, especially using social media.
(13) When Piano was designing his first major building in the US - the Menil Collection in Houston, completed in 1987 - I remember discussing the notion of "soft machine" buildings with him.
(14) Instead of learning to read sheet music Olsen, in childhood piano lessons, preferred to memorise, only getting caught out when she neglected to turn any pages.
(15) His mother was a singer and his father, Beverly, played piano and bass; together they had an a capella jazz group, and there would always be singing at home.
(16) Gamble and Huff's career spans the history of rock and soul – Gamble sang with a group called the Romeos in the 60s, while Huff's early days reach back further, having played piano on sessions for the rock'n'roll songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and for Phil Spector.
(17) I step in front of her, turn around, and tell the adult seated at the piano, “Keep playing that music.” He obeys; I turn back to the audience and do my notion of a dance for a few minutes.
(18) Piano tones with varying hammer velocities were produced by a computer-monitored acoustic piano containing optical sensors and solenoids, and the sounded tones were recorded and digitized for analysis.
(19) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
(20) Ed Balls has just passed grade four piano , aged 47.