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Morning Open Thread Saturday Feb. 15, with classical music played on chromatic accordion [1]
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Date: 2025-02-15
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>>>Accordions exist in many varieties, much too large a topic for a diary. This diary is narrowed to the chromatic button variety of accordion. And many details are omitted for brevity, and to avoid technical musical terms. Links are provided after the text, for a reader who wants to dig into the details.
Accordions are commonly associated with Eastern European style polkas and waltzes, but this diary’s selections are solely performances of classical music.
The most obvious difference between accordion types is their right-hand side. Piano accordions use a piano-style musical keyboard system; button accordions use a buttonboard (rows of buttons).
A chromatic button accordion is a type of accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of rows of buttons arranged chromatically. There can be 3 to 5 rows of vertical treble buttons.
Comparing the layout to the piano accordion, the advantages of a chromatic button accordion are the greater range and better fingering options.
Accordions may be either bisonoric, producing different pitches depending on the direction of bellows movement, or unisonoric, producing the same pitch in both directions. Piano accordions are unisonoric. Chromatic button accordions also tend to be unisonoric.
The bass-side keyboard is usually the Stradella Bass System.
The Stradella Bass System is a buttonboard layout equipped on the bass side of many accordions, which uses columns of buttons arranged in a circle of fifths. The details are beyond the scope of this diary, see the link below.
links:
Wiki: Accordion
Wiki: chromatic button accordion
Wiki: Stradella Bass system
Wiki: Chromatic Scale
Wiki: Circle Of Fifths
Now for the music:
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Johann Sebastian Bach
Chacon in F minor, P. 43, Johann Pachelbel
La Campanella, Paganini/Liszt
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