"Piano" in music means "softly", from the Italian. The instrument we call the piano has a full name of "pianoforte", meaning soft, loud. The name reflects the wide range of volume that the instrument has.
Most modern musical instruments have dynamics. The piano its full name is Pianoforte meaning soft and loud. on its predecssor the harpsicord dynamics could not be changed. It just played loud. This was true of many old style instruments they just had one volume sometimes loud like capped shawms or soft like crumhorns.
The word Piano in sheet music is derived from the Italian language, and the word meaning softly. Just as pianoforte means soft and loud, and the word meaning that there is variation between loud and soft noise levels.
Pianoforte did not get shortened there is a difference between pianoforte and piano. Piano means to be played softly, while pianoforte wants it to be played softly but with a variation of loud and soft noise levels.
"Piano in music means "soft." The instrument now known as piano was originally called "pianoforte" "soft loud" indicating its range. Pianissimo is softer than piano: very soft.
It means pianoforte or piano.
Moonlight (Beethoven's Moonlight sonata for pianoforte)
Pianoforte is an instrument whose name comes from the Italian equivalents of the English words "soft" and "loud." The masculine singular noun may be preceded by the masculine singular definite article il ("the") or indefinite un, uno ("a, an"). The pronunciation will be "PYA-no-FOR-tey" in Italian.
for the music to be loud...
The word "piano" comes from the Italian word "pianoforte," which means "soft-loud" in English. The piano was named this way to describe its ability to produce both soft and loud sounds depending on how the keys are played.
The affects of loud music is that you could die from it
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