July 10, 2018

SU COPVA Toccata! (League of Pianists!)

TRIVIA SERIES!
D I D Y O U K N O W?

The right or sustain pedal is called the damper pedal. It is called damper for it raises all the dampers
from the strings at the same time so that the played notes are sustained. It’s ironic how the term
designates the meaning.
The jazz pianist/composer Gershwin began his hobby of painting and he got quite good at it. He
became more serious about it as he went along. His last oil portrait was of his good friend, Arnold
Schoenberg, best known of the new method in composition, creating serial composition (12 tone
technique).
TRIVIA QUESTION!
Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the first piano forte or the piano. What was it called?
Note: Put your answers on the pocket of this post. Write your name and course. We will have another raffle at the end of week. We will reveal the
answer on the next week of the trivia.

Last week’s Trivia Question:

What is the term that refers to the unaccompanied bravura passage introduced at or near the close of a movement of
a composition and serving as a brilliant climax, particularly in solo concerti of a virtuoso character?
CADENZA (LUCKY WINNER: Fritz C. Arbon*)
* Contact the League on your winning.