 A lot of keyboard music has been written for one hand alone, — especially the left hand...
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 John Field's Nocturnes are quite well-known, but he wrote many other equally distinctive solo piano pieces...
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 John Taverner's In Nomine from the Mass Gloria Tibi Trinitas inspired many keyboard works in the 17th Century ...
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 Haydn wrote more than forty piano trios. Many of them need little if any adjustment to make into attractive, playable and rewarding piano solos...
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 In 1878 Borodin, Cui, Liadov and Rimsky-Korakov wrote a set of 15 pieces for piano duet; the primo part simply repeats 2 bars playable with two fingers...
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 William Baines was born in Horbury near Wakfield in1899 and died at the age of 22. In his short life he produced some strikingly original music...
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 Many composers,including some of the greatest, have been intrigued to write pieces for musical clocks and other mechanical instruments...
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 "Have with Yow to Walsingham" was a popular song in the 16th Century, much used by keyboard players and lutenists as a theme for variations...
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 John DOWLAND'S Pavane Lacrymae
was greatly admired, and was set for harpsichord by Byrd, Morley, Farnaby and others...
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