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A lot of keyboard music has been written for one hand alone, especially the left hand.

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John Field's Nocturnes are quite well-known, but he wrote many other equally distinctive solo piano pieces.

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John Taverner's In Nomine from the Mass Gloria Tibi Trinitas inspired many keyboard works in the 17th Century.

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Haydn wrote more than forty piano trios. Many of them need little if any adjustment to make into attractive, playable and rewarding piano solos.

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In 1878 Borodin, Cui, Liadov and Rimsky-Korakov wrote a set of 15 pieces for piano duet; the primo part simply repeats two bars playable with two fingers.

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William Baines was born in Horbury near Wakefield in 1899 and died at the age of 22. In his short life he produced some strikingly original music.

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Many composers, including some of the greatest, have been intrigued to write pieces for musical clocks and other mechanical instruments.

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Have with Yow to Walsingham was a popular song in the 16th Century, much used by keyboard players and lutenists as a theme for variations.

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John Dowland's Lachrimae Antiquae Pavan is greatly admired, and was set for harpsichord by Byrd, Morley, Farnaby and others.

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