noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One's way of playing the piano. countable, uncountable

   "There is nothing showy in her pianism, nothing cloying about her expressivity."

2. 2
   performance by or technique of a pianist wordnet
3. 3
   A way of composing or an instance of passagework that is idiomatic, ergonomic, and intrinsically well-suited to the unique capabilities and expressive characteristics of the piano as an instrument. countable, uncountable

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executionexpressionfingeringglissandointonationlegato

Example

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"There is nothing showy in her pianism, nothing cloying about her expressivity."

Etymology

From piano + -ism.

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