Noun:

एक अंग्रेली बाजा, पियानो का पूरा नाम जो केवल औपचारिक रूप से प्रयुक्‍त होता है,

pianoforte's Usage Examples:

It was first used in France, for the organ, in 1835; in England, for the pianoforte in 1846 and for the organ in 1854.

This is of constant occurrence in classical pianoforte music, in which thick chords are subjected to polyphonic laws only in their top and bottom notes, while the inner notes make a solid mass of sound in which numerous consecutive fifths and octaves are not only harmless but essential to the balance of tone.

His name at once became synonymous with the highest pitch of pianoforte playing, and society was at his feet.

Classical and modern chamber-music in the sonata style consists mainly of string-quartets for 2 violins, viola and violoncello; string-trios (rare, because very difficult to write sonorously); pianoforte-trios (pianoforte, violin and violoncello); pianoforte-quartets (pianoforte with string-trio); pianoforte-quintets (pianoforte with string-quartet); string-quintets (with 2 violas, very rarely with 2 violoncellos), and (in two important cases by Brahms) stringsextets.

The development of pianoforte technique since Beethoven has been in some ways even more revolutionizing than that of the brass instruments; and pianoforte instrumentation, both in solo and in chamber-music, is a study for a lifetime.

are eight horns in the orchestra their material should be indistinguishable from pianoforte writing, and that, in short, the part of every instrument should look exactly like the part of every other - such questions are for posterity to decide.

But this was ineffective with the pianoforte, and is only explicable in Haydn as a survival.

Haydn finds the pianoforte so completely capable of expressing his meaning that he is at a loss to find independent material for any accompanying instruments; and the violoncello in his trios has, except perhaps in four passages in the whole collection of thirty-three works, not a note to play that is not already in the bass of the pianoforte; while the melodies of the violin are, more often than not, doubled in the treble.

There seems no good reason why in modern performances the pianoforte should not be used for the purpose; if only accompanists can be trained to acquire the necessary delicacy of touch, and can be made to understand that, if they cannot extemporize the necessary polyphony, and so have to play something definitely written for them, it is not a mass of interesting detail which they are to bring to the public ear.

The invention of the damper-pedal in the pianoforte epitomizes the difference between polyphony and symphonic art, for it is the earliest device by which sounds are produced and prolonged in a way contrary to the spirit of "real" part-writing.

Synonyms:

player piano, keyboard, keyboard instrument, sustaining pedal, grand piano, piano, grand, Pianola, upright piano, sounding board, piano keyboard, fallboard, percussive instrument, mechanical piano, percussion instrument, clavier, soundboard, soft pedal, piano action, forte-piano, fingerboard, fall-board, stringed instrument, upright, loud pedal,

Antonyms:

ignoble, unrighteous, horizontal, inclined, unerect,