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| | Harpsichord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Through the 19th century, the harpsichord was ignored by composers, the piano having supplanted it. | | | The first music written specifically for solo harpsichord came to be published around the middle of the 16th century. | | | The sound of Kirckman and Shudi harpsichords has impressed many listeners, but the feeling that it overpowers the music has led to very few modern instruments being modelled on them. |
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| | J.S. Bach - Music for Oboe and Harpsichord |
| | The music was recorded with the oboe at centre stage, and the harpsichord somewhat in the background. | | | J.S. Bach - Music for Oboe and Harpsichord | | | The recording of Bach’s sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, by Alison Crum and Laurence Cummings, is brilliant for its recording. |
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| | A Brief History of the Harpsichord |
| | The harpsichord is a musical instrument whose strings are plucked from a keyboard and which sits on a table or stand while being played. | | | Two-manual harpsichords appear by 1580, with the spinetten sound on the upper manual and a lute sound on the lower (but not as much so as the muselaar). | | | And, the harpsichord has taken the musical world by storm. |
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| | Trevor Pinnock: baroque harpsichord virtuoso |
| | As a soloist he has recorded the Bach Harpsichord Concerti and Haydn's Piano Concerto (Hob. | | | XV111:11) playing/directing The English Concert and the Poulenc Harpsichord Concerto with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. | | | The experience of playing and recording Rameau's music on the Goermans/Taskin harpsichord in the Raymond Russell Collection has been the privilege of a lifetime. |
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| | Colonial Williamsburg Journal |
| | Often, as he works, Redstone takes inspiration from the recordings of music by such composers of harpsichord pieces as George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell, and Domenico Scarlatti. | | | “I was in a music appreciation class, and I heard a recording of a piece by Handel played on a harpsichord. | | | Once the soundboard is done, keys are made, the harpsichord is strung, jacks are installed, and the stand and the lid are completed. |
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| | History of the Harpsichord |
| | During the latter part of the eighteenth century, the harpsichord began to lose favor, due mainly to the introduction of the piano. | | | The harpsichord was the largest and most important domestic keyboard musical instrument from the sixteenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries. | | | Five Centuries of Keyboard Music; an Historical Survey of Music for Harpsichord and 	Piano. |
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http://cfaonline.asu.edu/haefer/classes/564/564.papers/pierceharpsichord.html
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| | There's More to the Harpsichord |
| | The harpsichord version was nevertheless remarkably effective, reminding one of the sounds of the Hungarian cymbalom (a large dulcimer--like the harpsichord a plucked string instrument), for which this folk-oriented music would have been completely idiomatic. | | | The sound--both of the instrument and of the hall--was an important factor in this music, for Shapiro's program seemed in part chosen to illustrate the development of the harpsichord's sonorities from Johann Jacob Froberger, who was born in 1616, to Padre Antonio Soler, who died in 1783. | | | This musical transvestism can work both ways, however, as Shapiro showed in her encore at St. Peter's: three movements from Bartók's Rumanian Dances, which are known in their piano originals and in an orchestral version, but certainly not as harpsichord pieces. |
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| | Harpsichord - Sonikmatter |
| | I have the Soundscan Acoustic Keyboards disk from www.bigfishaudio.com that comes with two harpsichords with releases, and three pianos, all for I think about $40. | | | My favorite harpsichord sound is in this song btw, Cellophane by the Wondermints. | | | Here are a couple of demos that I did with the new Harpsichord and Celesta library...[/quote]The scarlati and bach pieces sounded like they were recorded extremely well for the harpsichord. |
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| | The first movement dispensed with the almost metronomic keyboard writing that the harpsichord's action favors; the music sounded like it was waiting for the piano to be perfected, and making do with harpsichords in the meantime. | | | Its low volume, lack of dynamics and plangent tone require that both composition and performance accommodate these qualities if the experience of listening to a harpsichord piece is to be rewarding. | | | Tranzillo's tonal accuracy and vocal flexibility made her a performer worth hearing and a strong contributor to the evening's perfection. |
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| | Baroque German Harpsichord Music |
| | Recent musicological research has shown that Bach explicitly required a harpsichord with 16'-register for solo as well as for chamber music; he considered it important that music should have "fundament" - a good bass foundation. | | | In Bach's Leipzig, there was an established tradition of Collegia Musica, secular musical organizations run mainly by the students of the city's famed university, and contributing music of the highest quality. | | | Thus he would most certainly have used the 16' register for the bass line when playing continuo or a sonata for harpsichord and violin or flute. |
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http://www.baroque-music-club.com/bqgerhp.html
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| | Welcome! — Harpsichord Unlimited |
| | Instrumental selections for 2 violins, cello & harpsichord by Gluck, Handel, John Christian Bach and Madame Brillon di Jouy (a talented harpsichordist & composer who was Franklin's close personal friend) round out the program. | | | In 2002 they won the WQXR-Chamber Music America Award for Best Recording in the Early Music category ("Passionate Pavans"). | | | Please congratulate us as we celebrate the upcoming 10th Anniversary of our New York City concert series featuring harpsichordist Elaine Comparone and The Queen's Chamber Band! |
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http://www.harpsichord.org
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| | Perhaps most essential of all is my commitment to quality - quality of design and manufacture, and the quality of the instrument as a musical instrument, because ultimately it is this aspect that is of greatest concern to the musician. | | | If you want to hear what this harpsichord sounds like, visit my audio page. | | | IU's Phil Sloffer has tuned more harpsichords than anyone I know, and here he has constructed not only guides to tuning various temperaments, but lessons on how to tune. |
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http://www.harpsichord-man.com
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| | Sounds of harpsichords and related instruments |
| | Survey of Recorded French Harpsichord Music by Francois Velde | | | The Harpsichord Music of Antonio Soler (broken) --> | | | Modern concert harpsichords (in no particular national/historical style) |
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| | Harpsichord Touch |
| | Anyone who has ever played a harpsichord knows that the touch is entirely different from a piano's. | | | The keys are generally slimmer, so that an octave on the piano might be a 9th on a harpsichord. | | | Expect harpsichord keys to be a different size than piano keys. |
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| | Amazon.com: A Guide to the Harpsichord: Books: Ann Bond |
| | Harpsichord Technique: A Guide to Expressivity (Second Edition, Book & CDs) by Nancy Metzger | | | Baroque Music, Style and Performance: A Handbook by Robert Donington | | | A Guide To The Harpsichord is an invaluable reference manual and history for students of the instrument, as well as a highly recommended addition to music history and classical music department reference library collections. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1574670638?v=glance
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| | San Diego Harpsichord Society |
| | Editor’s Picks—Three recordings that you may have missed: Benda on fortepiano, C.P.E. Bach on clavichord and Byrd on harpsichord. | | | Plenty of Haydn—Review of Christine Schornsheim’s 14 CD complete keyboard works of Haydn, performed on harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano | | | Harpsichord and Lute—We often see references to the style brisé or style luthé. |
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http://www.harpsichord-sd.com
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| | Harpsichord, Keyboard Instrument |
| | The harpsichord is an early relative of the piano. | | | However, most keyboard instruments are not true members of the percussion family because their sound is not produced by the vibration of a membrane or solid material. |
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| | The Harpsichord |
| | Generally longer and narrower than a piano, the harpsichord commonly has a shape similar to a grand piano. | | | A stringed keyboard instrument developed during the 14th and 15th century, the harpsichord was widely used until the early 19th century when it was superseded by the piano. | | | The metal strings are sounded by plucking with a small piece of material called a plectrum which is held in a narrow slip of wood called a jack attached to the key mechanism. |
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/harpsi.html
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| | HARPSICHORD OWNER'S MANUAL |
| | Tuning your harpsichord is a necessary and regular requirement, and rather than impose my murky prose on the subject I am honored to let Phil Sloffer of the Early Music Institute at Indiana University take you through the steps at the official IU Harpsichord Tuning site: Just click here! | | | This page is the first of a series which are designed to help you maintain your harpsichord in good working order. | | | Harpsichords sometimes lose a string - either the string gets damaged and breaks, or the metal might have a minor flaw that eventually makes itself known, or the metal gets brittle over a long time and snaps at the slightest provocation. |
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http://www.harpsichord-man.com/fixing.htm
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| | BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY |
| | It is also intended to arrange meetings, talks and concerts to bring together people interested in harpsichords. | | | The British Harpsichord Society membership list will not be published but we will be pleased to be publicly associated with those members who so wish. | | | Arranging harpsichord concerts and visits involves some costs and some risks. |
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http://www.harpsichord.org.uk
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| | HCH/Kottick, History of the Harpsichord |
| | He has investigated the instrument's acoustical properties as well as its historical aspects, and has published articles on the harpsichord in both scientific and scholarly journals. | | | From Psaltery and Monochord to Harpsichord and Virginal Hermann Poll and the clavicembalum The psaltery and the monochord Iconographical evidence of the harpsichord A digression on pitch and scale The manuscript of Henri Arnaut Clavichords and virginals The Royal College of Music clavicytherium Summing up II. | | | The Harpsichord Hibernates Some builders The harpsichord played and preserved Historicism and antiquarianism Collectors and collections Leopoldo Franciolini and the collectors Summing up |
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| | The Harpsichord |
| | Landowska: Commentaries for the 'Treasury of the Harpsichord Music' (New York, 1947) | | | The harpsichord was used both for solo performance and accompanying in chamber groups and in larger ensembles of the period. | | | The other main type of harpsichord in use from the early 17th century was the Flemish style instrument, and it is the name of the Ruckers family that is most associated with this influential tradition. |
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http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/harpsich.htm
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| | Milan Digital Audio - 3 Stop Harpsichord |
| | Each stop was recorded individually, chromatically and with two different release samples. | | | The harpsichord samples are currently available in Hauptwerk (requires version 1.21), and.WAV format. | | | Home > Products > Harpsichords > Martin Harpsichord |
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http://www.milandigitalaudio.com/martinharpsichord.htm
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| | oddmusic.com musical instrument gallery |
| | Click here to listen to a sample of the LEGO Harpsichord | | | The project took two years of theorizing, designing, collecting parts, building, testing, and rebuilding. | | | For more information about the LEGO Harpsichord and Henry Lim's other LEGO sculptures, visit his website at henrylim.org |
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| | Encyclopedia Zammica Volume R |
| | yss">Gladyss - harpsichord, vocals, pipes - 6th lvl bard - female elf | | | The story is that he travelled back and forth between the planes for about a week, so he had time to gather his stuff. | | | He brought his Stratocasters, 3 build-your-own harpsichord kits and wire enough of various thicknesses to produce strings for a century. |
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| | Landowska, Wanda on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Largely responsible for the revival of interest in the harpsichord and its music, she was the teacher of many noted contemporary harpsichordists. | | | She taught piano (1900-1912) at the Schola Cantorum, Paris, and harpsichord (1912-19) at the Berlin Hochschule. | | | In 1940, she came to the United States, settling in Lakeville, Conn., where she taught and made recordings. |
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| | Welcome to The Harpsichord Gallery |
| | The Harpsichord Gallery will be displaying its collection of 2005 harpsichords at this year's Boston Early Music Festival. | | | Let us show you the pure pleasure in owning a fine musical instrument that will delight both you the owner and future generations to come. | | | If you like a particular style of harpsichord on the gallery floor but choose to personalize the instrument to your tastes, we will glady custom build an instrument for you. |
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| | Harpsichord by Zuckerman |
| | A harpsichord is more than simply an instrument upon which one makes music; it is also a decorative object, a visual as well as an aural feast. | | | Our superior-quality harpsichords, clavichords, spinets and virginals are closely based on the best extant antiques from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. | | | Welcome to Zuckermann Harpsichords International, the world’s leading maker of historically-based keyboard instruments. |
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| | Harpsichord |
| | Originally, upon thinking about the potentials of making a LEGO musical instrument, I had hoped to reproduce a piano, but ditched the idea due to the enormous tension involved (40,000 lbs.)--there's a reason why pianos have steel frames. | | | - Paul, John: Modern Harpsichord Makers (London, 1981) | | | Its ancestor, the harpsichord, seemed more practically possible--the key/jack workings are simple levers, the strings are plucked, it's smaller, and it maintains less tension. |
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| | Encyclopedia Smithsonian: harpsichord |
| | Shortridge, John D. Italian Harpsichord Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries. | | | The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this topic. | | | Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. |
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| | Douglas Maple - Harpsichord and Clavichord Maker |
| | Douglas Maple is a maker of custom harpsichords and clavichords patterned after historical prototypes, which represent nearly all national schools and time periods. | | | He has been active as a maker since 1975, and also has extensive experience in maintenance and rebuilding. |
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| | Harpsichord |
| | Lid: part of the harpsichord that protects internal parts from dust or oxidation when closed. | | | Lid stick: wood stick that keeps the lid open. |
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| | Harpsichords by Hugh Craig harpsichord maker |
| | The UK's largest Supplier of HARPSICHORD PARTS and ACCESSORIES | | | We supply quality harpsichord parts for both the harpsichord home builder and professional harpsichord maker. | | | Harpsichord Maker and Harpsichord Parts Supplier - Home page |
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| | Harpsichord17 |
| | << Back to Harpsichord page << Previous image |
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| | Harpsichord Inititative |
| | Here you will find a harpsichord primer, a list of current builders and vendors, the definitive collection of Latin harpsichord mottos, and whatever else happens to hand. | | | This corner contains miscellaneous items that pertain to the harpsichord. | | | To add to the miscellany, or to post something for sale, contact bigduck. |
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| | The ZHI.net site has been revised, and we've moved the Tour of the Harpsichord to a new web page: http://zhi.net/instr/tour.shtml. | | | If your browser doesn't automatically redirect you to this site, please click on the link. |
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| | CBH Carey Beebe Harpsichords Australia — Global Harpsichord Technology |
| | To best view our site, please refer to the information on our Browser page, from where you can download the latest version of your favorite browser. | | | Comprehensive, multilingual site detailing harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano construction, restoration, maintenance, tuning and hire. | | | We recommend that you use a JavaScript-enabled, frames-compatible browser to benefit from our harpsichord site technology, and set your monitor to display thousands of colors minimum. |
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