ABSTRACT
Given the versatility, popularity and ubiquity of the piano, an increase in its repertory in areas other than that of solo music was to be expected. It was used additionally as an accompanying instrument, as an aid to composition – improvising and teasing out ideas, trying out textures and harmonies, and so on – as a didactic instrument in the sense of teaching the basics of music, or the basics of its own technique to a would-be performer, and as a study instrument, facilitating knowledge of musical repertory in other genres through arrangements.
