Michael Nyman - The Piano Theme (Heart Asks Pleasure First)

I have always found Nyman's Theme from The Piano an enchanting melody, with a simple yet powerful feeling to it. It is familiar somehow, the melody and chords are inspired by ancient music which has been passed down from our ancestors, deep within our conciousness

In this improvised interpretation I tried to bring out a more hypnotic emotion by using repetitive and flowing phrases. I hope you enjoy!

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Michael Laurence Nyman (born March 23, 1944, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway.

Nyman studied music composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1969, he provided the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera, Down by the Greenwood Side and directed the short film Love Love 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, who had studied with the noted Baroque music scholar Thurston Dart at King's College London, 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, Mozart in Drowning by Numbers, and John Dowland in Prospero's Books.


Nyman's popularity increased significantly after he wrote the score to Jane Campion's award-winning 1993 film The Piano. The album became a classical music best-seller. Although Nyman's score was central to the movie, he did not receive an Academy Award nomination despite being nominated for both a British Academy Award and a Golden Globe. He has scored numerous other films, the majority of them art films from Europe. His few forays into Hollywood composing 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.

opera Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1987), for soprano, alto, tenor and instrumental ensemble, 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.

Michael Nyman Band, Carlo Goldoni's Il Campiello. rebecs and shawms saxophone

Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Catalan, Spanish and French
John Cage Portsmouth Sinfonia World's Worst Orchestra
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Martin Lewis produced 20 Classic Rock Classics Sinfonia
Social Orchestra Stephen Foster. Ravenous

Peter Greenaway's The Falls Fourth Wall Hands To Take.
Ada McGrath
Live Earth in Japan.


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[sensualgun]

if you love this, you MUST watch the video of "Let There Be Light "!!... it's a song by rock noir band BELLADONNA and MICHAEL NYMAN and it's based on this music from "The Piano". Michael Nyman himself plays piano on it... search for "belladonna nyman" here on youtube and you'll find it!! :-)

[manuelusilva3]

you shure are a exelent pianist :) congrats dude :D you made it :)

[rednekfordgrl]

Sexual.

[6anatolyy4]

well played fella

[Thiskid217]

He just played in a different key. It still sounds amazing even though it isn't exact. It doesn't have to be, and it shouldn't be.

[acts10truth]

@ThePianistOS I think every artist does their own rendition and doesnt try to duplicate the original. I think he made this very lovely and I enjoyed it for what it was......beautiful

[acts10truth]

took me to place of peace and spiritual rest . thank you for the post it is lovely and you are in excellence !

[milxl]

I'm not a specialist but i think it's an

excellent version

[lohman181]

@ThePianistOS

ok well the music I have of this song it's a octive change I don't want to get in a fight and maybe I'm wrong and my music is wrong that's just how it's written I don't know

[ThePianistOS]

@lohman181 He altered the notes to the point where the theme is barely recognizable. It was not a mere octave shift.

[lohman181]

@ThePianistOS

Not really he just played the song an octive up

[Branstock]

@joolsscott naked + wicked (?)