Along with this he also programmed parts for what are called self-playing pianos or pianolas.
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Player pianos, or pianolas, peaked in popularity in the mid-1920s before improvements in recording technology rendered them obsolete.
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The melody is mostly built from parallel series of consonant chords, sometimes sounding pentatonic but often making no tonal sense at all. Antheil uses pianolas for things that would be difficult for human players (a 7-note chord at m142, for example). A' – Xylophones return in triple meter to recall Theme 1 (m187).
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This is not strictly a repeat of Theme 1 but another variation and development upon it. This section descends into increasing chaos (starting m283) which signals a transition into part C (m328). C – The xylophones and pianolas play a new tune. They stay in better rhythmic agreement here and give a more ordered feel to this section.
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Finally, there is a crescendo of pianola, a flurry of percussion and a bang to mark the real ending. The score indicates the last measure of the piece to be ended with the pianos and drums only, but modern performances have the xylophones joining back in and doubling the melody of the pianolas to create a more firm, solid, and recognizable ending.
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The xylophones eventually cut out to make way for a serene pianola passage. A'’B'’ – The xylophones return (m403) with the theme from the beginning. There are differences from the original AB part, including new bitonal passage (m530) and miniature round (m622) between xylophones and pianolas. The pentatonic melody, hinted in part B, returns (m649) and gets developed in the context of the round.
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The city is home to several other museums, such as the Bavarian Railway Museum, the Nördlingen city museum (Stadtmuseum), the city wall museum (Stadtmauermuseum) and Augenblick museum with panoramas, magic lanterns, silent films, barrel organs, pianolas, music boxes and gramophones. Nördlingen is also known for the Scharlachrennen, a horse riding tournament that was first mentioned in 1463. Despite filming most of the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in Munich, Nördlingen appears in the final aerial scene.
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However, the piece is definitely structured in a sonata rondo. The sonata rondo form follows an [AB] [A'C] [A'’B'’] [Coda] pattern, where A is a first theme, B is a second theme, and C is a middle section loosely related to A and B: A – Theme 1 starts at the beginning of the piece. It is easily identified by the oscillating melody in the xylophones. It moves through rhythmic and intervallic variations until a bridge into the next theme (measure 38 in the original scoring). B – Theme 2 (m77) features the pianolas, supported by drums.
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White peacock displaying at Rusland Hall Rusland Hall Poster John and Norma Birkby from Furness restored the fabric of the house to its former Georgian interior and exterior. Following restoration the house was opened to the public and became well known for a collection of mechanical musical instruments which was recognized as one of the largest collections in Europe.Leisure Guide - Lake District, Ordnance Survey, 1984 Many rare items from the period in musical history preceding the gramophone could be seen and heard, including self-acting pianos, pianolas and even pneumatic "orchestrelle" organs. Also on display was vintage photographic equipment including James Bond’s Minox spy camera.
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Replica of a 1598 musical clock by Nicholas Vallin, that plays its music on 13 bells Smith's guild in the Buurkerk (near the museum reception desk) Museum Speelklok (previously known as Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement) is a museum in The Netherlands in the city of Utrecht specializing in self-playing musical instruments. Since 1984, it has been housed in the centre of Utrecht in a former church called Buurkerk. Among the instruments on display are music boxes, musical clocks, pianolas, barrel organs (including the typically Dutch large street organs) and a turret clock with a carillon, most of which are still able to play for visitors. The word speelklok means musical clock.
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Although the machines were designed to perform analysis tasks, Lovelace anticipated the possible social impact of computers and programming, writing. "For in the distribution and combination of truths and formulas of analysis, which may become easier and more quickly subjected to the mechanical combinations of the engine, the relationships and the nature of many subjects in which science necessarily relates in new subjects, and more deeply researched […] there are in all extensions of human power or additions to human knowledge, various collateral influences, in addition to the primary and primary object reached." Other old machine readable media include instructions for pianolas and weaving machines. Binary Code shown here which can used to represent the whole alphabet It is estimated that in the year 1986 less than 1% of the world's media storage capacity was digital and in 2007 it was already 94%.
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