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Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart)
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, the "Elvira Madigan" concerto, is a 1785 Mozart piano concerto premiered at the Vienna Burgtheater on 10 March 1785, famous for its F major Andante used in the 1967 film Elvira Madigan.
Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, Rach 3, is Sergei Rachmaninoff's 1909 piano concerto, completed at Ivanovka, premiered November 28, 1909 in New York with Damrosch, dedicated to Josef Hofmann, and famed for its extreme technical difficulty and two alternative first-movement cadenzas.
Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven)
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, the "Emperor" Concerto, composed 1809 in occupied Vienna, dedicated to Archduke Rudolph, premiered Leipzig 1811 with Friedrich Schneider; nickname not Beethoven's own.
Piano festivals
A piano festival is a recurring event built around piano performances, presenting recitals by established and emerging artists, running masterclasses and training academies, or combining both, and differing from piano competitions.
Piano key frequencies
Piano key frequencies: the hertz pitch of each of the 88 keys of a standard piano in twelve-tone equal temperament, anchored at A4 = 440 Hz (ISO 16), from A0 at 27.50 Hz to C8 at 4186.01 Hz, with stretch tuning deviations.
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 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.
Picardy third
Picardy third (tierce de Picardie): a major tonic chord ending a minor-key piece or section, made by raising the chord's third a semitone; common in Renaissance and Baroque music, later used by Chopin, Dvorak, and the Beatles.
Piccolo
Piccolo (ottavino, flautino): the smallest, highest flute, half the concert flute's length, sounding an octave higher, range D5–C8, conical bore, usually wooden; orchestral debut in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony finale.
Pick Poor Robin Clean
Pick Poor Robin Clean is an American song first recorded by Luke Jordan on 18 August 1927 (Vi 20957) and covered by Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas in 1931; a ragtime show song about plucking a robin bare, read variously as a gambling song, a dozens verse, or a disrobing metaphor.
Pick Withers
Pick Withers (David Withers, born 1948, Leicester) is an English drummer, founding member and original drummer of Dire Straits 1977-1982, playing on their first four albums and Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming; left in 1982, later played with Plant, Baez, Rafferty.
Pick You Up (album)
Pick You Up, Sheryl Crow's 2026 studio album on Old Green Barn/Thirty Tigers, released digitally October 9, 2026; seven tracks, 25 minutes, written and produced with Jeff Trott, distinct from Iri's 2024 album and Yup'in's 2021 single.
Picó (Colombian sound system)
A picó, or picó sound system, is a large hand-painted street sound system from Colombia's Caribbean coast, above all Barranquilla and Cartagena, central to champeta culture.
Picture (song)
"Picture" is a 2002 country-rock duet by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow from the album Cocky; after A&M blocked Crow's vocals, an Allison Moorer version went to radio, but the Crow version hit No. 4 on the Hot 100.
Picture disc
Picture disc: a vinyl record with printed artwork embedded between clear vinyl layers, grooves pressed into the thin top layer. Also called pic-disc; dates to 1920s Musika Postkarte, peaked with Vogue discs (1946-1947) and 1970s promo pressings; collectible but noisier than black vinyl.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vystavki) is an 1874 piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky, depicting ten pictures by his friend Viktor Hartmann and best known in Ravel's 1922 orchestration.
Pidżama Porno
Pidżama Porno, Polish punk rock band founded December 1987 in Poznań by Krzysztof "Grabaż" Grabowski and Andrzej "Kozak" Kozakiewicz; nine studio albums, 2007–2014 hiatus, trio since 2014, album "Sprzedawca jutra" (2019).
Piece by Piece (Kelly Clarkson album)
Piece by Piece is Kelly Clarkson's seventh studio album, released March 3, 2015, her first since 2011. Produced largely by Greg Kurstin, with Sia and John Legend collaborations, it closed her Idol-era RCA contract.
Piece by Piece (soundtrack)
Piece by Piece (soundtrack) is the album for the 2024 animated documentary Piece by Piece. It features new songs and Pharrell Williams hits like "Happy" and "Get Lucky."
Piece of Mind
Piece of Mind is Iron Maiden's fourth studio album, released 16 May 1983; first with drummer Nicko McBrain, produced by Martin Birch in the Bahamas, UK number three and platinum, home of The Trooper and Revelations.
Piece of My Heart
Piece of My Heart: love song by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, first recorded by Erma Franklin (1967), made famous by Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company (1968), later covered by Faith Hill, Shaggy, and Beverley Knight.
Piece of Time
Piece of Time is the 1988-recorded debut album by Florida death metal band Atheist, released in Europe in 1989 and the U.S. in 1990. Produced by Scott Burns, it fused thrash with jazz-influenced technicality and helped found technical death metal.