piano reduction

American  

noun

1. a musical score having the parts condensed or simplified in two staves, to render the music playable on the piano by one person.

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Etymology

Origin of piano reduction

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Võ will play both instruments for Seattle Opera’s production, accompanying Huang’s new piano reduction of the original seven-instrument ensemble score.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2023

There are times when Owens’s “Mortal Storm,” which featured the evening’s most pessimistic poems, sounds like a dense piano reduction of an opera score.

From New York Times • May 25, 2022

She had originally learned the opera with a piano reduction, which inevitably lacked the layered textures of Saariaho’s score.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2021

That “Riders to the Sea” fared less well was mostly because of a piano reduction that sacrificed Vaughan Williams’s mottled blue-gray orchestration and wind-machine gusts.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2012

Transcriber's Note: This quotation from Parsifal is given in the form of a piano reduction which does not convey well the "flourish of muted horns, remote, mysterious".

From Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create by Price, Lucien