Name	Piano
Image capt	Steinway grand piano
Background	keyboard
Hornbostel sachs	314.122-4-8
Hornbostel sachs desc	Simple chordophone with keyboard sounded by hammers
Inventors	Bartolomeo Cristofori
Developed	Early 18th century
Range

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal. Although not portable and often expensive, the piano's versatility and ubiquity have made it one of the world's most familiar musical instruments.

Pressing a key on the piano's keyboard causes a felt-covered hammer to strike steel strings. The hammers rebound, allowing the strings to continue vibrating at their resonant frequency.

Striking the piano key with greater force increases the amplitude of the waves and therefore the volume. From pianissimo (pp) to fortissimo (ff) the hammer velocity changes by almost a factor of a hundred. The hammer contact time with the string shortens from 4 ms at pp to less than 2 ms at ff. If two wires adjusted to the same pitch are struck at the same time, the sound produced by one reinforces the other, and a louder combined sound of shorter duration is produced. If one wire vibrates out of synchronization with the other, they subtract from each other and produce a softer tone of longer duration.

Well-known piano makers

Well-known piano makers are (in alphabetical order): Bechstein, Blüthner, Bösendorfer, Broadwood, Fazioli, Feurich, Förster, Heintzman, Kawai, Mason & Hamlin, Petrof, Pleyel, Samick, Schimmel, Steingraeber & Söhne, Steinway & Sons, Stuart & Sons and Yamaha. 's The Well-Tempered Clavier on a grand piano.]]

Role

The piano is a crucial instrument in Western classical music, jazz, film, television, and most other complex western musical genres. A large number of composers are proficient pianists—and because the piano keyboard offers an easy means of complex melodic and harmonic interplay—the piano is often used as a tool for composition.

Pianos were, and still are, popular instruments for private household ownership. Hence, pianos have gained a place in the popular consciousness, and are sometimes referred to by nicknames including: "the ivories", "the joanna", "the eighty-eight", "the black(s) and white(s)", and "the little joe(s)". Playing the piano is sometimes referred to as "tickling the ivories".

See also

;General

Jazz piano

Musica Obscura

Piano extended technique

Piano transcription

Piano trio

PianoForte Foundation

Street piano

String piano

;Technical

Agraffe

Aliquot stringing

Piano acoustics

Sounding board

;Related lists

List of classical pianists (recorded)

List of films about pianists

List of piano brand names

List of piano makers

Piano compositions category

;Related instruments

Electric piano

Electronic keyboard

Electronic piano

Harmonichord

Keyboard instruments

Keytar

Organ and Pipe organ

Notes

References

The authoritative New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (available online by subscription), contains a wealth of information. Main article: "Pianoforte".

The Encyclopædia Britannica (available online by subscription) also includes much information on the piano. In the 1988 edition, the primary article can be found in "Musical Instruments".

The Piano Book by Larry Fine (4th ed. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: Brookside Press, 2001; ISBN 1-929145-01-2) gives the basics of how pianos work, and a thorough evaluative survey of current pianos and their manufacturers. It also includes advice on buying and owning pianos.

Giraffes, black dragons, and other pianos: a technological history from Cristofori to the modern concert grand by Edwin M. Good (1982, second ed., 2001, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press) is a standard reference on the history of the piano.

The Early Pianoforte by Stewart Pollens (1995, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) is an authoritative work covering the ancestry of the piano, its invention by Cristofori, and the early stages of its subsequent evolution.

Further reading

External links

The Piano Page

History of the Piano Forte, Association of Blind Piano Tuners, UK

The Frederick Historical Piano Collection

The Pianofortes of Bartolomeo Cristofori, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. His operas include The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Letters, Riddles and Writs, Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, Facing Goya, , Love Counts, and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond, and he has written six concerti, four string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band, with and without whom he tours as a performing pianist. Nyman has stated his preference for writing opera to other sorts of music.

Biography

Nyman was born in Stratford, London, and was educated at the Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow. He studied at King's College, London under communist composer Alan Bush., and was accepted at the Royal Academy of Music in September, 1961, and studied with Bush and Thurston Dart, focusing on piano and seventeenth-century baroque music. He won the Howard Carr Memorial Prize for composition in July 1964.

In 1969, he provided the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera, Down by the Greenwood Side and directed the short film Love Love Love (based on, and identical length to, The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love") before settling into music criticism, where he is generally acknowledged to have been the first to apply the term "minimalism" to music (in a 1968 article in The Spectator magazine about the English composer Cornelius Cardew). He wrote introductions for George Frideric Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 and conducted the most important interview with George Brecht in 1976.

Nyman drew frequently on early music sources in his scores for Greenaway's films: Henry Purcell in The Draughtsman's Contract and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (which included Memorial and Miserere Paraphrase), Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber in A Zed and Two Noughts, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Drowning by Numbers, and John Dowland in Prospero's Books, largely at the request of the director.

Nyman says he discovered his aesthetic playing the aria, "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" from Mozart's Don Giovanni on his piano in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis, which "dictated the dynamic, articulation and texture of everything I've subsequently done." He has scored numerous films, the majority of them European art films, including several of those directed by Peter Greenaway. His few forays into Hollywood have been Gattaca, Ravenous (with musician Damon Albarn), and The End of the Affair. He wrote settings to various texts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for "Letters, Riddles and Writs", part of Not Mozart. He has also produced a soundtrack for the silent film Man with the Movie Camera. Nyman's popularity increased after he wrote the score to Jane Campion's award-winning 1993 film The Piano. The album became a classical music best-seller. He was nominated for both a British Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

Among Nyman's other works are the opera Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1987), for soprano, alto, tenor and instrumental ensemble (based on Nyman's score for the ballet La Princesse de Milan); Ariel Songs (1990) for soprano and band; MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse) (1993) for band and orchestra; concertos for saxophone, piano (based on The Piano score), violin, harpsichord, trombone, and saxophone & cello recorded by John Harle and Julian Lloyd Webber; the opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1986), based on a case-study by Oliver Sacks; and four string quartets. In 2000, he produced a new opera on the subject of cloning on a libretto by Victoria Hardie titled Facing Goya, an expansion of their one-act opera Vital Statistics. The lead, a widowed art banker, is written for contralto and the role was first created by Hilary Summers. His newest operas are (2003) and Love Counts (2005), both on libretti by Michael Hastings.

He has also composed the music for the children's television series Titch which is based on the books written and illustrated by Pat Hutchins.

Many of Nyman's works are written for his own ensemble, the Michael Nyman Band, a group formed for a 1976 production of Carlo Goldoni's Il Campiello. Originally made up of old instruments such as rebecs and shawms alongside more modern instruments like the saxophone in order to produce as loud a sound as possible without amplification, it later switched to a fully amplified lineup of string quartet, three saxophones, trumpet, horn, bass trombone, bass guitar and piano. This line up has been variously altered and augmented for some works.

Nyman also published an influential book in 1974 on experimental music called Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Catalan, Spanish and French translations), which explored the influence of John Cage on classical composers.

In the 1970s, Nyman was a member of the Portsmouth Sinfonia — the self-described World's Worst Orchestra — playing on their recordings and in their concerts. He was the featured pianist on the orchestra's recording of Bridge Over Troubled Waters on the Martin Lewis-produced 20 Classic Rock Classics album on which the Sinfonia gave their unique interpretations to the pop and rock repertoire of the 1950s-1970s. Nyman created a similar group called Foster's Social Orchestra, which specialized in the work of Stephen Foster. One of their pieces appeared in the film Ravenous and an additional work, not used in the film, appeared on the soundtrack album.

He has also recorded pop music, with the Flying Lizards; a version of his Bird List from the soundtrack to Peter Greenaway's The Falls (1980) appears on their album Fourth Wall as "Hands 2 Take."

On 7 July 2007, Nyman performed at Live Earth in Japan. On 2008 Nyman realized, in collaboration with the cultural association Volumina, Sublime, an artist's book that unified his music with his passion for photography.

In a collaboration with friends Max Pugh and Marc Silver, Nyman is now beginning to exhibit his films and photography. Nyman’s videoworks are filmed with a hand-held camera. Usually spontaneous, they work as visual diaries of his inquisitive mind. Most often taken before and after concerts and as part of his international travels, video works feature everyday moments or episodes that Nyman has chanced upon and chosen to record; lingering on unfolding events, capturing the unexpected, or focusing on the less seen. Some works are left relatively unedited whilst other video works undergo further experimentation with split screens and visual repetition.

Soundtracks to some of the video works use location sounds, whilst others recycle existing scores from his archive, or a combination of both to create sound/ score montages.

In October 2009, Nyman released The Glare, a collaborative collection of songs with David McAlmont, which cast his work in a new light. The album - recorded with the Michael Nyman Band - finds McAlmont putting lyrics based on contemporary news stories to 11 pieces of Nyman music drawn from different phases of his career.

"David did the research and chose most of the musical pieces," Nyman explains. "I suggested a few pieces,too but I really didn't do very much, although I think it's a true collaboration. You can identify who was responsible for what, but both aspects create a perfect synergy in which neither element can exist without the other."

Although the album was recorded in just two days, there was a huge amount of preparation and rewriting before they entered the studio. "They're third generation songs and when you listen to them, you ask 'Is it Nyman?' 'Is it soul?' 'Is it rock'n'roll?' It's all and none of them," the composer says. "I think we've created a new musical language. I'm no good at writing pop cliché - when I try, it invariably comes out sounding quite different."

The project has a long gestation for the pair first met in 2004 at a exhibition opening and talked about working together. Nothing came of it for almost five years until they got together again via Facebook, met up for lunch - and the idea for The Glare was born.

"I was surprised and delighted by what we've came up with," Nyman says. "So much so, that when I now play these pieces solo, it sounds like something's missing and the music needs David's voice and approach. That's a remarkable thing, because I've been playing these pieces for years. Of all the many collaborations I've been involved in, none has ever given me more pleasure and I'm desperate to take it on the road and play these."

Personal life

He was married to Aet Nyman and has two daughters, Molly and Martha. His first string quartet quotes "Unchained Melody" in homage to Aet, who appears in Greenaway's The Falls, for which he also composed music. Molly is a composer in her own right; in collaboration with Harry Escott she has written several film scores including for The Road to Guantanamo by her father's frequent collaborator, Michael Winterbottom. Martha is a development researcher for the BBC.

Career highlights

1961–67 – Studies at the Royal Academy of Music and King's College London.

1968–78 – Works as music critic (becoming first person to apply the word "minimalist" to music).

1976 – Founds the Campiello Band (now the Michael Nyman Band) and embarks on eleven-film collaboration with Peter Greenaway.

1981 – Releases first Michael Nyman Band album.

1993 – Soundtrack for The Piano wins an Ivor Novello Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and American Film Institute award and goes on to sell over three million copies.

2002–2005 – Composer-in-Residence at Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Germany, who performed three Nyman operas and more tunes for his daughters.

2007 – Performed on 7 July from Kyoto, Japan as part of the Live Earth global environmental awareness musical event.

Honours

Nyman was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.

Nyman was awarded an honorary doctorate (DLitt) from The University of Warwick on 30 January 2007. At the ceremony The University of Warwick Brass Society and Chamber Choir, conducted by Paul McGrath, premiered a specially composed procession and recession fanfare composed by Nyman.

Works

1963 – Introduction and Allegro Concertato for Wind Quartet (lost)

1963 – Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet

1965 – Canzona for Flute

1974 – Bell Set No. 1 (multiple metal percussion)

1976 – 1–100 (4–6 pianos)

1976 – (First) Waltz in D (variable)

1976 – (Second) Waltz in F (variable)

1977 – In Re Don Giovanni (ensemble)

1978 – The Otherwise Very Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz (multiple pianos)

1979 – "The Masterwork" Award Winning Fish-Knife (ensemble)

1980 – A Neat Slice of Time (choir)

1981 – Think Slow, Act Fast (ensemble)

1981 – Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (band*) (based on Anton Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 10)

1981 – M-Work (band)

1981 – 2 Violins

1982 – Four Saxes (Real Slow Drag) (saxophone quartet)

1983 – A Handsome, Smooth, Sweet, Smart, Clear Stroke: Or Else Play Not At All

(orchestra)

1983 – Time's Up (chamber ensemble)

1983 – I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump (electric violin and viola, both players also simultaneously singing)

1983 – Love is Certainly, at Least Alphabetically Speaking (soprano and band)

1984 – The Abbess of Andouillets (choir)

1985 – Nose-List Song (soprano and orchestra) [this and the above three works are from an unfinished opera setting of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which Nyman has repeatedly cited as his all-time favorite book]

1985 – Childs Play (2 violins; harpsichord)

1985 – String Quartet No. 1

1986 – Taking a Line for a Second Walk (for orchestra (Basic Black) or piano duet)

1986 – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera; libretto by Christopher Rawlence; adapted from the Oliver Sacks case study by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris)

1986 – And Do They Do (modern dance, 1986)

1987 – Vital Statistics (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)

1988 – String Quartet No. 2

1989 – Out of the Ruins (choir)

1989 – La Traversée de Paris (soprano and band)

1989 – The Fall of Icarus (band)

1989 – L'Orgie Parisienne Arthur Rimbaud setting (soprano or mezzo soprano and orchestra)

1989 - La Sept (band)

1990 – Shaping the Curve (soprano saxophone, string quartet or piano)

1990 – Six Celan Songs (contralto and orchestra)

1990 – Polish Love Song (soprano and piano)

1990 – String Quartet No. 3

1990 – The Kiss and Other Movements

1991 – The Michael Nyman Songbook A collection of songs based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare, and Arthur Rimbaud and recorded with vocalist Ute Lemper.

1991 – Where the Bee Dances (soprano saxophone and orchestra)

1991 – Fluegelhorn and Piano

1992 – Time Will Pronounce (violin, cello, and piano)

1992 – For John Cage (brass ensemble)

1992 – Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence (alto and string orchestra or countertenor and viol consort)

1992 – The Convertibility of Lute Strings (solo harpsichord)

1992 – Anne de Lucy Songs (soprano and piano)

1992 – Le Mari de la Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband)

1992 – The Upside-Down Violin (orchestra/ensemble)

1993 – MGV: Musique à grande vitesse (band and orchestra)

1993 – The Piano Concerto (piano and orchestra)

1993 – Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1993; opera-ballet setting William Shakespeare's The Tempest)

1993 – Yamamoto Perpetuo (violin solo)

1993 – Songs for Tony (saxophone quartet)

1994 – To Morrow (soprano or soprano saxophone, organ)

1994 – 3 Quartets (ensemble)

1994 – Concerto for Trombone (trombone, orchestra, and steel filing cabinets)

1995 – String Quartet No. 4

1995 – Tango for Tim (In memoriam Tim Suster) (harpsichord)

1995 – The Waltz Song (unison voices)

1995 – Viola and Piano

1995 – Grounded (mezzo-soprano, saxophones, violin, piano)

1995 – HRT [High Rise Terminal] (chamber ensemble)

1995 – Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings

1995 – Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello (saxophone, cello, and orchestra)

1996 – After Extra Time (ensemble)

1996 – Enemy Zero (game music)

1997 – Enemy Zero - Original Soundtrack

1997 – Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks (orchestra)

1997 – The Promise (piano)

1997 - Gattaca

1998 - Titch (worked on the main opening/closing piano theme).

1998 – Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras) (soprano, mezzo-soprano, and band)

1998 – Orfeu (band)

1998 – De Granada A La Luna (band)

1999 – The Commissar Vanishes (band)

2000 – Facing Goya (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)

2001 – a dance he little thinks of (orchestra)

2003 – Violin Concerto (violin and orchestra)

2003 – (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings)

2005 – Love Counts (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings)

2006 – gdm for Marimba and Orchestra (concerto)

2006 – Acts of Beauty' (song cycle)

2007 – A Handshake in the Dark (choral piece with orchestra; text by Jamal Jumá [world premiere 8 March 2007, Barbican, London, performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, John Storgards conducting])

2007 – Interlude in C (expansion of a theme from The Libertine for Accent07 touring ensemble)

2007 – Eight Lust Songs song cycle

2008 – Yamamoto Perpetuo for Solo Flute (arranged by Andy Findon)

2009 – Sparkie: Cage and Beyond opera with Carsten Nicolai

2009 – The Musicologist Scores (band)

2010 – 2Graves

2010 – Vertov Sounds

*originally recorded by Nyman, Ned Sublette, Susan Krongold, Barbara Benary, Jon Gibson, Richard Cohen, Virgil Blackwell, Peter Zummo, and Peter Gordon at The Kitchen, and intended for Peter Greenaway's short film, The Tree.

Nyman's music re-used

Nyman's "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" (from The Piano) is the music on which Italian rock noir band Belladonna's song "Let There Be Light" is based. Released in December 2010, the track features Michael Nyman himself on piano.

Nyman's "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" (from The Piano) was used as backing music for one of the bank advertisements for Lloyds TSB broadcast on television. It has also been featured in episodes of 20/20.

Music from Ravenous has been used at least once on WFYI's Across Indiana, in a segment titled "On the Trail of John Hunt Morgan", produced by Scott Andrew Hutchins.

Nyman's soundtrack for Carrington is mostly based on his own String Quartet No. 3.

A Cock and Bull Story contains music from The Draughtsman's Contract, as well as Nyman's arrangements of classical music used in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (it does not use any music from Nyman's Tristram Shandy opera).

Nyman's music for Peter Greenaway's films has been used in the Japanese television program Iron Chef.

Popular "Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds" (from The Draughtsman's Contract) constituted the main theme of Spanish TV program Queremos Saber, presented by Mercedes Milà in the nineties.

Nyman features in '9 Songs' (Michael Winterbottom, 2004) playing at the Hackney Empire on his 60th birthday.

Nyman's MGV: Musique à grande vitesse was used in November 2006 for a new one-act ballet for the Royal Ballet in London, DGV (danse à grande vitesse) by Christopher Wheeldon.

Nyman's "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" was covered by the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. Nyman had refused it to be released in the first time, now he authorizated its release.

Time Lapse was used in Sky's 2008 'Heroes' advert

Selections from Nyman's catalogue formed part of the soundtrack for James Marsh's 2008 documentary, Man on Wire, a film about Philippe Petit, a Frenchman, who in 1974 illegally strung a tightrope between the top of the WTC buildings and danced between them for 45 minutes, thus committing the "artistic crime of the 20th century".

Nyman's piece "Time Lapse" is now used in secondary school music lessons.

Recordings

Man and Boy: Dada - MN Records 102

- Virgin EMI CDVED957

String Quartets 1–3 - Decca 4730912

Decay Music EMI CVE964 2004

Notes

External links

Michael Nyman official site

Michael Nyman's homepage at Chester Music

The Power of the Cadence: Michael Nyman in conversation with Robert Davidson

'The Case Against Nyman Revisited' Recent article on Michael Nyman's use of pre-existing music

Michael Nyman à grande vitesse, review article in The Oxonian Review

Michael Nyman judged The Film of the Month competition in June 2009 on the independent filmmakers networking site Shooting People

An Evening with Michael Nyman, BAFTA event video

Listening

Michael Nyman audio at Internet Archive

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Name	Yann Tiersen
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Yann Pierre Tiersen
Born	June 23, 1970
Origin	Brest, Brittany, France
Instrument	Piano, Violin, Accordion, Guitar, Toy piano, Voice and various others.
Genre	Minimalist, Avant-Garde
Occupation	Musician, Songwriter
Years active	1995–present
Label	VirginANTI-Mute Records
Url	Official website

Yann Pierre Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer. Further parts were recorded in the Philippines. The album is preoccupied with mortality; during the recording sessions Tiersen lost his mother and a close friend. The recordings started out as simple song based tracks with Tiersen playing acoustic guitar, mandolin and bouzouki. New layers were added to the recordings creating a more complex sound. Then an array of vintage synthesisers and electric guitars were added to create further textures. The album was released by Mute Records and promoted in a tour beginning in October 2010, starting in New York.

Discography

Studio albums

La Valse des Monstres (1995)

Rue des Cascades (1996)

*featured performer: Claire Pichet.

Le Phare (1998)

*featured performers: Claire Pichet, Dominique A.

L'Absente (2001)

*featured performers: orchestral group Synaxis, Lisa Germano, Sacha Toorop, Dominique A, Neil Hannon, Natacha Régnier, Têtes Raides

Les Retrouvailles (2005)

*featured performers: Stuart Staples of Tindersticks, Jane Birkin, Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, Christophe Miossec, Dominique A.

Dust Lane (2010)

Soundtracks

Amélie Original Soundtrack (2001)

Good Bye Lenin! Original Soundtrack (2003)

*featured performer: Claire Pichet.

Tabarly (2008)

Live albums

(1999)

*Black Session radio performance

*featured performers: Neil Hannon (of The Divine Comedy), Bertrand Cantat (of Noir Désir), Françoiz Breut, The Married Monk, Têtes Raides and a string quartet.

C’était ici (2002)

*live compilation album

*featured performers: 35-member orchestral group Synaxis, conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne. Claire Pichet, Christine Ott, Christian Quermalet, Marc Sens, Nicholas Stevens, Jean-François Assy, Renaud Lhoest, Oliver Tilkin, Ronan le bars, Têtes Raides, Dominique A, Lisa Germano.

On Tour (2006)

*featured performers: Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins , Diam's , Katel, DD la Fleur

Singles and EPs

Tout est Calme (1999)

*collaboration with The Married Monk

*other featured performers: the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Lisa Germano, Neil Hannon (of The Divine Comedy), Dominique A, Françoiz Breut, Têtes Raides, Sacha Toorop (of Zop Hopop), the actress Natacha Regnier, Christian Quermalet (of The Married Monk), Marc Sens (a Serge Tessot-Gay collaborator), Christine Ott and a string quartet.

3 titres inédits au profit de la FIDH (part of the On Aime, On Aide collection, composed to raise funds for the FIDH, sold exclusively at Fnac) (2003)

PALESTINE (vinyl EP) (2010)

Collaborations

Bästard (EP) (1999)

*collaboration with Bästard

Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright (2004)

*collaboration with Shannon Wright.

This Immortal Coil (2010)

Contributions

One Trip, One Noise (by Noir Désir) (1997)

*"A ton étoile" (arrangements, strings, vibraphone, bell, mandolin, electric guitar and bass)

Vingt à Trente Mille Jours (by Françoiz Breut) (2000)

*"Porsmouth" (vibraphone), "Vingt à trente mille jours" (vibraphone), "L'heure bleue" (violin), "Le verre pilé" (vibraphone); arrangements

Gratte-poil (by Têtes Raides) (2001)

*"Cabaret des nues" (violin)

The Married Monk (by The Married Monk) (2001)

*"Roma Amor" (strings, vibraphone), "Holidays" (strings) and "Cyro's Request" (vibraphone)

''Les oiseaux de passage (tribute to Georges Brassens)

*cover of "Le parapluie" with Natacha Régnier

Absent Friends (by The Divine Comedy) (2004)

*"Sticks & Stones" (accordion); "Anthem for Bored Youth" (accordion), a track appearing only on the French limited edition

The Endless Rise of the Sun (by Smooth) (2006)

*"The Endless Rise of the Sun" (keyboards)

Raides à la ville (by Katel) (2006)

*"La Vielle" (violin)

13m² (by David Delabrosse) (2006)

*production and arrangements

Solitude Nomade (by Christine Ott) (2009)

*"Pensées sauvages" (violin)

Finistérien (by Miossec) (2009)

*music and arrangements

Li(f)e (by Sage Francis) (2010)

*production and arrangements on "The Best Of Times"

DVDs

La Traversée (2005) (by Aurélie du Boys, about the recording and composition of Les Retrouvailles in Ouessant)

On Tour (2006) (by Aurélie du Boys, about the tour)

References

External links

Yann Tiersen's official homepage

Yann Tiersen Sheet Music Archive compiled by Vladimir Yatsina

Concert photos by Laurent Orseau (Black Session)

Concert photos by Laurent Orseau (La Route du Rock 1998)

Music Video for La Noyée from the Amelie soundtrack

Music Video for Comptine d'un autre été: l'après midi from the Amelie soundtrack

Article on Yann Tiersen at Everything2.com

Article on Yann Tiersen and piano at Scribd

Yann Tiersen in Lebanon Event Review

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