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Piano Man (Billy Joel album)
Piano Man (1973) is Billy Joel's second studio album and his first for Columbia Records, produced by Michael Stewart in Los Angeles. The title track hit No. 25 on the Hot 100; the album reached No. 27 and is certified 4x Platinum.
Piano Man (song)
"Piano Man" is a 1973 song by Billy Joel, his first commercially released single. Written from the view of a lounge pianist, it became his signature song and nickname.
Piano pedals
Piano pedals are foot levers controlling sustain, tone, and volume. A grand has una corda, sostenuto, and damper pedals; uprights substitute a practice mute, and digital pianos simulate all three.
Piano Software
Piano Software is a software company selling a subscription, analytics, and customer-data platform used by publishers like the BBC and Le Monde to run paywalls and manage subscribers.
Piano sonata
Piano sonata: a multi-movement solo-piano work from the Italian sonare, "to sound". Standardized by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven with a sonata-form first movement, slow lyrical second, and fast finale; extended by Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Bartók, and Prokofiev.
Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart)
Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331/300i (1783, published by Artaria 1784), a three-movement sonata with no sonata-form movement, famous for its Alla Turca (Turkish March) finale; autograph pages rediscovered in Budapest in 2014.
Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2, the Moonlight Sonata (Mondscheinsonate), is Beethoven's 1801 'quasi una fantasia' sonata dedicated to Countess Giulietta Guicciardi; its nickname came from critic Ludwig Rellstab in 1832, not Beethoven.
Piano Sonata No. 21 (Beethoven)
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, the Waldstein Sonata, composed 1803-04 on his new Érard piano and published 1805, dedicated to Count Ferdinand von Waldstein, with an Introduzione replacing the original Andante favori slow movement.
Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven)
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, his last of 32 piano sonatas, was completed in 1822 and published in Paris in 1823.
Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, the Sonate pathétique, composed 1797–1799, published in Vienna in 1799, dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky; three movements with a Grave introduction returning twice.
Piano sonatas (Beethoven)
Beethoven's piano sonatas: 32 numbered solo piano sonatas (plus 3 early WoO 47 works, 35 total) written from the early 1790s to 1822, spanning his whole career, with nicknames like Moonlight and Appassionata, and a recording tradition from Schnabel's first complete 1930s cycle onward.
Pianyu Ci
Pianyu Ci (片玉词), also known as Qingzhen Ci, is the collected song lyric of Northern Song poet Zhou Bangyan, whose precisely patterned tunes became models for later lyricists.
Piao Xijing
Piao Xijing (朴烯晶, Puxijing New Energy Materials) is a Shanghai startup founded in 2021 that makes ultra-high-purity polyethylene for battery separators and semiconductor filters, with production starting in 2025.
Piaoni and pihong system (Grand Secretariat draft rescripts and red-ink rescripts)
The piaoni and pihong system (票擬與批紅制度) was a Ming dynasty procedure in which the Grand Secretariat drafted rescripts on memorials for the emperor to confirm in red ink.
PIAP
PIAP, formally the Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements, is a Polish research institute in Warsaw, founded in 1965, known for mobile robots for explosive ordnance disposal and reconnaissance.
Piaractus brachypomus
Piaractus brachypomus, known as the pirapitinga or red-bellied pacu, is a large Amazon serrasalmid fish reaching 88 cm and 25 kg, widely farmed for food.
Piaractus mesopotamicus
Piaractus mesopotamicus, the pacu or small-scaled pacu, is a large migratory seed-eating characin (Serrasalmidae) of the Paraguay-Paraná basin, IUCN Near Threatened, and a leading South American aquaculture species.
PIAS1
PIAS1 (protein inhibitor of activated STAT 1), HGNC:2752, gene on 15q23 encoding a 651-aa SUMO E3 ligase; transcriptional coregulator of STAT1 and NF-κB, innate immunity regulator, and tumor-microenvironment modulator.
PIAS3
PIAS3 (protein inhibitor of activated STAT 3, aka ZMIZ5) is a human SUMO E3 ligase on chromosome 1 that specifically inhibits STAT3 DNA-binding; it regulates transcription factors and influences growth and drug sensitivity in lung, liver, and brain cancers.
Piasecki Aircraft
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation is an American research and development company founded in 1955 by helicopter pioneer Frank Piasecki, specializing in experimental rotorcraft and unmanned air vehicles.
Piasecki H-21
The Piasecki H-21 Shawnee, nicknamed the "Flying Banana" for its kinked fuselage, was an American tandem-rotor transport helicopter built by Piasecki and Vertol, serving in Arctic rescue, Algeria, and Vietnam.
Piasecki Helicopter
Piasecki Helicopter, formally the Piasecki Helicopter Corporation and later Vertol Aircraft, was an American manufacturer founded by Frank Piasecki in 1940, known for tandem-rotor helicopters.
Piasecki X-49 SpeedHawk
The Piasecki X-49 SpeedHawk, designated X-49A, was an American experimental high-speed compound helicopter built by Piasecki Aircraft from a Sikorsky YSH-60F Seahawk, first flown in 2007.
Piast dynasty
The Piast dynasty (Piastowie) was the first ruling dynasty of Poland, holding the princely and royal title from the mid-10th century until the death of Casimir III the Great in 1370.
Piast Gliwice
Piast Gliwice, Polish football club founded 18 June 1945 in Gliwice, Silesia; Ekstraklasa side playing at the Piotr Wieczorek Stadium (9,736); first Polish champion in 2018/19, runner-up 2016, third 2020.
PIAT
The PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) was a British and Commonwealth shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon of the Second World War, replacing the Boys rifle as the infantry's answer to German armor.
Piatra Roşie
Piatra Roșie (Red Rock) is a Dacian fortress near Luncani, Hunedoara County, Romania, part of the UNESCO Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains; founded under Burebista, destroyed by Rome in 105–106 AD.
Piauí
Piauí is a state of Brazil in the Northeast region, with its capital at Teresina and a 2022 population of 3,271,199. It is among Brazil's poorest states and sits between the semiarid sertão and the cerrado.
Piaya
Piaya (Lesson, 1830) is a Neotropical genus of large, long-tailed cuckoos in Cuculidae, including the Squirrel Cuckoo (Piaya cayana) and Black-bellied Cuckoo (P. melanogaster); named from Cayenne Creole "Piaye", devil.
Piazza d'Armi
Piazza d'Armi (arms square) is the Italian term for a military drill ground, also used for city districts and archaeological sites, above all the Etruscan citadel of Veii, occupied from the 9th to the early 5th century BC.