piano reduction

noun

1. a musical score having the parts condensed or simplified in two staves, to render the music playable on the piano by one person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of piano reduction¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Võ will play both instruments for Seattle Opera’s production, accompanying Huang’s new piano reduction of the original seven-instrument ensemble score.

From Seattle Times

There are times when Owens’s “Mortal Storm,” which featured the evening’s most pessimistic poems, sounds like a dense piano reduction of an opera score.

From New York Times

Appleby and Hanick performed a version with a piano reduction that allowed the tenor — with a relatively lighter, lyric voice — to bring out subtleties in the vocal lines.

From New York Times

She had originally learned the opera with a piano reduction, which inevitably lacked the layered textures of Saariaho’s score.

From New York Times

The theater started looking for a solo pianist to play a piano reduction of the complex score, which was written for one of the largest ensembles in opera and is often performed by more than 100 players.

From New York Times