10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STREET PIANO»
Discover the use of
street piano in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
street piano and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A street piano is a piano placed in the street which passers-by are encouraged to
play. The best known examples is the Play Me, I'm Yours project by artist Luke
Jerram. The concept originates quite by accident in Sheffield, England.
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The
Piano: An Encyclopedia
The second lineofdevelopment was in the instruments made for public use; there
were two maintypes:the handturned, openairpiano, commonlyknownas the
STREET PIANO, and the cafe or bar piano. These latter were always
clockworkdriven ...
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The Boston Composers Project: A Bibliography of Contemporary ...
[ Church on Wooster Street, Piano] B5.42 Church on Wooster Street. (1959) 3' 12"
Written for the Church of God in Christ, Hartford, Conn. First performed: 1959;
Lenox School of Jazz. Originally titled Church on Russell Street. Score: MJQ,
1959.
Linda Solow Blotner, Boston Area Music Libraries, 1983
... always the possibility that it is there, even for her. The man is genuinely
disturbed by the sound of the street-piano, and in one of his moments of mental
escape he thinks of the wild movements of a dance to image his frustration and
his need.
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The Modern Portrait Poem: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to ...
Like the parrot, the marionette expresses itselfin words that are not its own (
though it may not realize its lack of agency).76 In “Portrait,” automatic speech is
particularly exemplified by the street piano that, “mechanical and tired, /
Reiterates ...
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The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and ...
... secondhand sentiments. It is music for “other people,” not himself, but
presumably anything is better than the lady and her Chopin. The moment of the
street-piano is additionally interesting because it 60 THE GREAT AMERICAN
SONGBOOKS.
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Learning Futures: Education, Technology and Social Change
The intelligent system swarms around you, documenting, analysing and building
systems around your actions. 48 Castells (2009: 38) 49 I had wondered whether
a better image for such slow citizenship might be the augmented street piano.
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 1 ...
While the barrel organ was also used on the streets, the link with the street piano
is spurious. Commonly, the instrument comprises upward of 14 notes in a non-
chromatic scale. From one to four stops or registers may be provided, selection ...
John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, 2003
50, NEW BOND-STREET. PIANO-FORTE. Latour. The favourite Airs in the Opera
of Medea in Corinto, arranged for the Piano-forte, with Flute ac- - companiment,
ad lib. Books 1 to 4 . each — — Airs In Tancrcdi, Books 1 and 2 . each - Airs in ...
Care That Transforms Lives. ItiiiiS^MiLSkii^il For more than 15 years Del Oro has
pioneered. Piano Rehabilitation Hospital 2800 West 15th Street, Piano, Texas
75075 Ph. 214/612-9000 FAX 214/423-4293 Physiologists at the University of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STREET PIANO»
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street piano is used in the context of the following news items.
A sneak peek at Cobourg's newest street piano
PETE FISHER / Northumberland Today Katriona Dean gave Northumberland Today an exclusive look at her design for a street piano that will be installed at ... «Northumberland Today, Jul 15»
Strange Stories Surrounding Street Pianos
Under the headline "Signs of Summer" in 1916, the New Castle, Del., Herald listed: lollipops, robins, bare feet and street pianos. Yes, in the 19th and early 20th ... «NPR, Jul 15»
Homeless man filmed tickling the ivories on a street piano becomes …
Grief stricken after the death of his wife, this man plunged into a cycle of destruction that landed him living on the streets. But the unlikely concert pianist is using ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
How A Street Piano Keeps The Community In Tune
What happens when you put a piano on public display with a sign saying: "Play me, I'm yours"? This melodious London Short by independent filmmaker ... «Londonist, Jul 15»
Homeless man stuns with street piano performances
SARASOTA, Fla. — A civic arts project placed public pianos on the streets of downtown Sarasota, Florida, so passers-by could express themselves. «FOX31 Denver, Jul 15»
Pianos restored for new street festival in Jersey
Old pianos have been restored and decorated by Jersey artists as part of a new street piano festival. Organiser Martin Coxshall has been working with ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
286 Hubs of Harmony: NYC Street Pianos Past, Present and Future
By sunrise tomorrow, 50 Sing for Hope Pianos will have been placed throughout the 5 boroughs, bringing to 286 the number of street pianos placed here since ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
STREET PIANO: Normanton's musical instrument given an encore …
A PIANO put a busy Derby street for passers-by to play for fun has been so successful that ... said: "The community in Normanton has really embraced the piano. «Derby Telegraph, Nov 14»
Video: Homeless man wows crowd on street piano
EDMONTON – All she knows is that his name is Ryan and he plays the piano like an angel. Roslyn Polard was on her way home from a work meeting last week ... «MetroNews Canada, Oct 14»
Ontario man's street piano covers go viral, draw celebrity attention
COBOURG, Ont. — Videos of himself performing on a street piano in Cobourg have gained Michael McNamara worldwide attention. McNamara, a 59-year-old ... «Toronto Sun, Sep 14»
