Space constraints for a performance of Syvilla Fort's ballet Bacchanale inspired the (*) first true use of a type of this instrument.
Margaret Leng Tan is best known for playing a type of this instrument. Each piece in a collection for this instrument uses a different unit size for its complex, nested, "square root form" proportions and illustrates a different emotion, like heroism or eroticism, from Indian aesthetics. A soprano vocalise is amplified by one of them in Ancient Voices of Children by George Crumb. Space constraints for a performance of Syvilla Fort's ballet Bacchanale inspired the (*) first true use of a type of this instrument. This instrument's extended techniques are used in Aeolian Harp, The Banshee, and The Tides of Manaunaun by Henry Cowell. Sonatas and Interludes was composed for a type of this instrument in which objects like screws, bolts, and rubber are placed on its strings, its "prepared" type. For 10 points, what instrument does the performer of John Cage's 4'33" sit in front of silently?
Margaret Leng Tan is best known for playing a type of this instrument.
piano [or prepared piano; or toy piano; or amplified piano]