{"id":346,"date":"2009-04-01T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T09:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/2009\/04\/piano_country\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T16:10:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T21:10:42","slug":"piano_country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2009\/04\/piano_country.html","title":{"rendered":"Piano Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keyboard music has always been linked with transcribing: making sung, or strummed pieces (or gestures), into something fingers can play on keys. The earliest extant keyboard pieces are transcriptions (more properly &#8220;intabulations,&#8221; because they are written using the little diagrams called tablature):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/RobertsbridgeAJ3.jpg\" alt=\"RobertsbridgeAJ3.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"345\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Robertsbridge Codex, circa 1350\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of my former students is making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Not-Piano-Francesco-Tristano\/dp\/B0010ZR084\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1237917031&amp;sr=8-1\">solo piano versions of Detroit techno<\/a>. I&#8217;ve made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000UDKTSU\/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1237917084&amp;sr=1-1\">piano transcriptions of music from minimalist operas<\/a>. Christopher O&#8217;Riley is getting attention for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/22\/arts\/music\/22schw.html\">piano arrangements of music by Radiohead and Elliott Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 12px 20px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/bradpaisley.jpg\" alt=\"bradpaisley.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"284\" \/><\/span>So, I&#8217;ve decided to begin, as soon as possible, a new transcription project: the pianofication of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bradpaisley.musiccitynetworks.com\/index.htm?id=14355\">complete <em>oeuvre<\/em> of Brad Paisley<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keyboard music has always been linked with transcribing: making sung, or strummed pieces (or gestures), into something fingers can play on keys. The earliest extant keyboard pieces are transcriptions (more properly &#8220;intabulations,&#8221; because they are written using the little diagrams called tablature): Robertsbridge Codex, circa 1350\u00a0 One of my former students is making solo piano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[560,559,518,148,563,558,194,556,561,557,562,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-april-1","9":"tag-brad-paisley","10":"tag-francesco","11":"tag-francesco-tristano","12":"tag-intabulation","13":"tag-john-adams","14":"tag-keyboard-music","15":"tag-robertsbridge-codex","16":"tag-tablature","17":"tag-techno","18":"tag-transcription","19":"tag-tristano","20":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}