Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the piano.
- adjective Well adapted to the piano.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a pianist.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
piano playing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective skilled at or adapted for the piano
- adjective of or relating to the piano
Etymologies
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Examples
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My second favorite is probably Van Cliburn: despite the vast difference in pianistic sound, his interpretation has the same reticent quality.
We should be on by now Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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We come now to the final volumes in the series of what one may as well call pianistic “nature-studies”: the “Fireside Tales” (op. 61) and
Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908
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We come now to the final volumes in the series of what one may as well call pianistic "nature-studies": the "Fireside Tales" (op. 61) and
Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908
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Musically, it is the most impressive of this extraordinary mastodonic survival of the "pianistic" past.
Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890
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The more they talked about it, the more the idea of some kind of pianistic sacrifice appealed to the pianist, which is where the drowning piano came in.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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The more they talked about it, the more the idea of some kind of pianistic sacrifice appealed to the pianist, which is where the drowning piano came in.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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The more they talked about it, the more the idea of some kind of pianistic sacrifice appealed to the pianist, which is where the drowning piano came in.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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"What I find as a soloist or working with a bassist, is that I can address myself more to the proposition of being a complete pianist; I find a lot more pianistic freedom."
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"What I find as a soloist or working with a bassist, is that I can address myself more to the proposition of being a complete pianist; I find a lot more pianistic freedom."
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The "Prague" is a better pairing that one might think — the connecting thread being Bruckner's hammered articulations in the 8th's finale (an unusually pianistic texture for him) which nicely sets up Mozart's motoric Classicism.
Archive 2009-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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