How To Use Clavichord In A Sentence
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These keyboard works were written mainly for the clavichord, an instrument that was on the way out; yet even as he played and wrote increasingly for the piano, he took the earlier instrument to the greatest heights.
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Wire strings not only were used on guitars, mandoras, and bass lutes, but gave rise to a whole new family of string instruments, which included zithers, citterns, the Irish harp, psaltery, clavichord and others during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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New instruments that appeared during the early Renaissance, in the second half of the 15th century, included the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the viol and violin families.
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The score's facsimile will be officially presented and played by clavichordist Florian Birsak on Friday, it said.
Mozart piano score discovered in Salzburg
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In parallel with this I plan to visit museums where there are early keyboard instruments, either harpsichords or clavichords.
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Its treatment of the modern piano as a vehicle for Bach reflects older emphases, and praise for the clavichord might be wishful thinking, yet the writing is full of common sense and musicianship.
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He would be taught the horn, the clavichord, and the violin.
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Her harpsichord and clavichord playing has influenced her piano playing, for example.
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As she rises from a low chair at which she has been playing the clavichord, she disentangles the folds in the capacious dress which emphasises her tiny form.
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He does not pretend it is a clavichord or a harpsichord, and the instrument's full ranges of volume, tone, and color are used.
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One must simply accept these performances at face value and forget about problems of piano versus harpsichord versus clavichord.
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Clavichords were particularly popular with organists because they could practise on them at home instead of in a cold church, and without the need to pay someone to pump the organ bellows.
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And there were few overdubs; he was surrounded by a grand piano, a clavichord and a Fender Rhodes electric piano, and switched between them on-the-fly, as he did in concert.
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The piano, dulcimer and the clavichord are examples of chordophones that are struck.
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It's either some unlistenable Czech serialist, or some unknown Baroque clavichordist.
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It was not a ball, nor had dancing been announced, but everyone knew that Catherine Petrovna would play valses and the ecossaise on the clavichord and that there would be dancing, and so everyone had come as to a ball.
War and Peace
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The fortepiano timbre didn't reveal any new secrets in the solo portions — Bach's writing is still very much modeled on harpsichord/clavichord virtuosity — but when providing a rippling accompaniment to the whole ensemble, the softer, subtler touch made for an invitingly plush sound.
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This made it possible to use one string for several different notes, and explains why the clavichord or clavicembalo needed comparatively few strings.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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Technically, piano-playing began to shift from the digital emphasis growing out of light-actioned clavichords and harpsichords to working with the strength and flexibility of full arms and even back.
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He alone could play on the clavichord that ecossaise (his only piece) to which, as he said, all possible dances could be danced, and they felt sure he had brought presents for them all.
War and Peace
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She has also mastered harpsichord and clavichord, conducted, and provided scholarly editions of some of Bach's non-keyboard works.
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They had organs, lutes, viols, lyres, harps, citherns, horns, and a kind of primitive piano known as the clavichord or the clavicembalo.
The Age of the Reformation
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Consistent with Ficino's recommendations, a drawing by Carpaccio suggests that many (if not all) of the instruments represented in the studioli were likely performed therein, including those instruments bearing connotations of the "music of the spheres," such as the clavichord, organ, and lute. 246 Other instruments, like the cittern found at Gubbio, were as readily available in a tavern as in a princely studiolo.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Clavier or Klavier normally meant the clavichord, whereas the harpsichord was usually called Instrument or Cembalo.
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I longed to make a sound on the glass flute or play a Bach on the clavichord; it seemed an injustice to have such precious instruments locked away behind glass cases, never again to be played.
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They talked together privately and sat together at supper and afterwards he played to her on the clavichord and the lute.
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It seems, nevertheless, that his ‘organ-like’ extemporisations were called forth by the clavichord, if not actually the organ.
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As she rises from a low chair at which she has been playing the clavichord, she disentangles the folds in the capacious dress which emphasises her tiny form.
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Examples are the Edinburgh Young Violinist, the enigmatic Dulwich Lady at a Clavichord and The Young Mother at the Hague.
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The clavichord was, in effect, a series of monochords placed in a single box, and it was called monochordia (manicorde, etc.) by many 15th and 16th-century writers.
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Your husband must be loaded (as well as bonkers) in order to be able to afford to stable four pianos, two pump organs, one harpsichord and a clavichord.
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He discusses the clavichord in general, with descriptions and photos of the three instruments which he plays.
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He makes it as living and penetrating as the violin, as responsive and elusive as the clavichord.
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The album features his baroque improv skills on the clavichord (playing three at once on occasion).
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In this period the piano was beginning to replace the harpsichord and clavichord in popularity, and allowed for new experimental sonorities and the use of the sustaining pedal.
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I plan to visit museums where there are early keyboard instruments, either harpsichords or clavichords.
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Mozart's lifetime witnessed the coexistence of four kinds of keyboard instrument: the harpsichord, the clavichord, the fortepiano, and the organ.
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He also loved music and was an accomplished musician playing the flute, harpsichord and clavichord.
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These gracefully escalating motifs, delivered on piano, mandolin, clavichord and (most prominently) accordion, are so utterly French that a waft of garlic and stale Gauloises hits you as you peel back the plastic.
