On Sep 21, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Giovanni Andreani wrote:
For one piano to played by two performers:
2. Piano Four Hand
not English
3. Piano Four Hands
absolutely standard
4. Four Hand Piano 5. Four Hands Piano
not English. not English.
6. Four Hand Piano Music
With a hyphen (four-hand), this would designate a body of compositions so scored, but not any single work or volume.
7. Four Hands Piano Music
not English.
8. Piano 4 Hand
not English.
9. Piano 4 Hands
OK, but a bit informal
10. 4 Hand Piano 11. 4 Hands Piano 12. 4 Hand Piano Music 13. 4 Hands Piano Music
See above entries
For one piano to played by three performers:
15. Piano Six Hands
absolutely standard.
or whatever else
To add my two cents to the other replies to this thread: a piano duo is an ensemble ("the Ferrante-Teicher piano duo"), a piano duet may be either an ensemble or a composition ("a Schubert piano duet")--but the latter is always rather informal (I would normally say/write "a Schubert four-hands piece"--the piano being understood). Because "piano duet" is informal, it should not normally be used to label a score, unless it's a teaching piece or light music. Say "for two pianos" instead. You often see "for two pianos, four hands," but this is tautological--though there admittedly do exist works for two pianos, eight hands and other, even more exotic combinations.
Oddly, the expressions [x] trio, quartet, quintet etc. always mean one [x] and the rest bowed strings. If you want 3 pianos or 5 clarinets you have to say "for three pianos" or "for five clarinets," and so on. This does not apply when [x] designates a family of instruments: a brass quintet is all brasses, a percussion quartet is all percussion.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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