1) Keyboard instrument
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Fortepiano designates the early version of the piano, from its invention by the Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori around 1700 up to the early 19th century. It was the instrument for which Haydn, Mozart, and the early Beethoven wrote their piano music. Starting in Beethoven`s time, the fortepiano began a period of steady evolution, cu....
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[musical dynamic] The expression fortepiano (sometimes called forte piano) is a sudden dynamic change used in a musical score, usually with the abbreviation fp, to designate a section of music in which the music should be played loudly (forte), then immediately softly (piano). It is often followed by a crescendo. The word is of Italian etym...
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(from the article `keyboard instrument`) ...instrument of greater brilliance and loudness. Their efforts gradually created today`s vastly different piano. In recent years, the special merits ...
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fortepiano
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Early 18th-century piano invented by Italian instrument maker Bartolommeo Cristofori in 1709. It has small, leather-bound hammers and harpsichord strings. Unlike the harpsichord, it can produce a varying intensity of tone, depending on the pressure of the player's touch, hence the name, which means `loud-soft` in Italian. ...
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