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pianistic, a. and n. pl.|piːəˈnɪstɪk| [f. pianist + -ic.] A. adj. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of, a pianist or pianism. Also, pertaining to or suitable for performance on the piano.
1881London Figaro 2 July 7/2 [She] has shared with M. Rubinstein the pianistic honors of this very prolific season. 1893Athenæum 10 June 743/1 Scholastic contrapuntal devices..combined with the most modern pianistic treatment. 1921I. Scharrer in L. Ronald Music Lovers' Portfolio iii. p. ix/1, First of all, I would emphasise the fact that it is perfect piano music; nothing before or since has been more absolutely pianistic, more thoroughly suited to the instrument. 1931G. Jacob Orchestral Technique v. 50 Note the way in which the pianistic idiom..has been translated into its orchestral equivalent. 1942E. Paul Narrow St. xxiii. 203 Only one pupil..had such pianistic genius. 1950Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 67/1 The same 12-bar pattern..serves as a basis for the ‘Boogie Woogie’, a typically pianistic species. 1955Times 4 July 12/4 Two pieces by his mother, Teresa de Rogatis, demonstrated the pianistic fluency of both mother and son. 1958Listener 21 Aug. 285/1 Leonard Borwick's exquisitely pianistic version of Debussy's ‘L'Après midi d'un faune’. 1975Ibid. 18 Sept. 378/1 The most outstanding pianistic feat..Dmitry Alexeev's playing of Prokofiev. B. n. pl. The art of playing the piano, spec. skilful technique in piano-playing.
1950Blesh & Janis They all played Ragtime viii. 149 The formidable eight-to-the-bar pianistics of Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons of Chicago, and Pete Johnson of Kansas City. 1958P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xv. 184 His dazzling and immensely skilful display of pianistics. Hence piaˈnistically adv., in a pianistic manner; from a pianistic point of view.
1926W. C. Handy Blues 20 Instrumentally and in particular pianistically, the mode was backward. 1928Daily Tel. 5 June 9/5 She would have approached nearer to the real Bach if she had thought less pianistically in the matter of tone-colour. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) xiii. 317 Pianistically, it has passages of great beauty but it is not completely Negroid. 1971Daily Tel. 6 Apr. 12/7 The most remarkable work of the evening pianistically—and pianism was this programme's concern—was the Grand Concert Fantasy on Themes from Bellini's ‘Sonnambula’. 1977Gramophone June 63/1 Berman's playing here has a child-like directness allied to playing which is, pianistically, very complex with all manner of material in the inner parts coming interestingly and engagingly through. |