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100 relations: Accompaniment, Archicembalo, Arnold Dolmetsch, Baroque music, Baroque pop, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Basso continuo, Blanchet (harpsichord makers), Brandenburg Concertos, Bridge (instrument), Burkat Shudi, Chinoiserie, Classical period (music), Clavichord, Concert champêtre, Contemporary harpsichord, Cupressus sempervirens, Disposition (harpsichord), Domenico Scarlatti, E. Power Biggs, Early music, Early Music (journal), Eight-foot pitch, Elliott Carter, Fantasia (musical form), Fir, Folding harpsichord, Fortepiano, François Couperin, Francis Poulenc, Frank Hubbard, Fugue, George Frideric Handel, Goldberg Variations, Hardwood, Harmonic, Harpsichord concerto, Harpsichordist, Hatchlands Park, Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, Historically informed performance, History of the harpsichord, Inversion (music), Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, Kirkman (harpsichord makers), Leopoldo Franciolini, List of historical harpsichord makers, ... Expand index (50 more) »
- Baroque instruments
- Basso continuo instruments
- C instruments
- Renaissance instruments
Accompaniment
Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.
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Archicembalo
The archicembalo (or arcicembalo) was a musical instrument described by Nicola Vicentino in 1555. Harpsichord and archicembalo are early musical instruments and keyboard instruments.
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Arnold Dolmetsch
Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 185828 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey.
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Baroque music
Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.
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Baroque pop
Baroque pop (sometimes called baroque rock) is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music.
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Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano.
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Basso continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression.
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Blanchet (harpsichord makers)
The Blanchet family were an extended family of French harpsichord-makers from the late-17th century to the mid-19th century, by which time they had become piano makers.
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Brandenburg Concertos
The Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 (though probably composed earlier).
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Bridge (instrument)
A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.
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Burkat Shudi
Burkat Shudi (variants: Burkhart, Burkhardt, Schudi, Tschudi, Tshudi) (13 March 1702 – 19 August 1773) was an English harpsichord maker of Swiss origin.
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Chinoiserie
(loanword from French chinoiserie, from chinois, "Chinese") is the European interpretation and imitation of Chinese and other Sinosphere artistic traditions, especially in the decorative arts, garden design, architecture, literature, theatre, and music.
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Classical period (music)
The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.
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Clavichord
The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Harpsichord and clavichord are early musical instruments and keyboard instruments.
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Concert champêtre
Concert champêtre (Pastoral Concerto), FP 49, is a harpsichord concerto by Francis Poulenc, which also exists in a version for piano solo with very slight changes in the solo part.
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Contemporary harpsichord
The harpsichord was largely obsolete, and seldom played, during a period lasting from the late 18th century to the early 20th. Harpsichord and Contemporary harpsichord are keyboard instruments.
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Cupressus sempervirens
Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean cypress (also known as Italian cypress, Tuscan cypress, Persian cypress, or pencil pine), is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Iran.
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Disposition (harpsichord)
The disposition of a harpsichord is the set of choirs of strings it contains.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer.
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E. Power Biggs
Edward George Power Biggs (March 29, 1906 – March 10, 1977) was a British-born American concert organist and recording artist.
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Early music
Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750).
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Early Music (journal)
Early Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal specialising in the study of early music.
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Eight-foot pitch
An organ pipe, or a harpsichord string, designated as eight-foot pitch (8′) is sounded at standard, ordinary pitch.
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Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer.
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Fantasia (musical form)
A fantasia (also English: fantasy, fancy, fantazy, phantasy, Fantasie, Phantasie, fantaisie) is a musical composition with roots in improvisation.
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Fir
Firs are evergreen coniferous trees belonging to the genus Abies in the family Pinaceae.
Folding harpsichord
The folding harpsichord was a kind of harpsichord meant for travel.
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Fortepiano
A fortepiano, sometimes referred to as a pianoforte, is an early piano. Harpsichord and fortepiano are early musical instruments.
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François Couperin
François Couperin (10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.
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Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist.
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Frank Hubbard
Frank Twombly Hubbard (May 15, 1920 – February 25, 1976) was an American harpsichord maker, a pioneer in the revival of historical methods of harpsichord building.
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Fugue
In classical music, a fugue is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition.
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.
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Goldberg Variations
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a musical composition for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations.
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Hardwood
Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.
Harmonic
In physics, acoustics, and telecommunications, a harmonic is a sinusoidal wave with a frequency that is a positive integer multiple of the fundamental frequency of a periodic signal.
Harpsichord concerto
A harpsichord concerto is a piece of music for an orchestra with the harpsichord in a solo role (though for another sense, see below).
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Harpsichordist
A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord.
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Hatchlands Park
Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England, covering 170 hectares (430 acres).
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Hieronymus Albrecht Hass
Hieronymus Albrecht Hass (variants Haas, Hasse, Hase, Hasch) (1 December 1689 – 19 June 1752) (dates of baptism and burial) was a German harpsichord and clavichord maker.
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Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of classical music which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of the musical era in which a work was originally conceived.
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History of the harpsichord
The harpsichord was an important keyboard instrument in Europe from the 15th through the 18th centuries, and as revived in the 20th, is widely played today. Harpsichord and History of the harpsichord are early musical instruments and keyboard instruments.
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Inversion (music)
In music theory, an inversion is a rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of music.
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was a French composer and music theorist.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
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Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
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Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach
The keyboard concertos, BWV 1052–1065, are concertos for harpsichord (or organ), strings and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Kirkman (harpsichord makers)
The Kirkman family (variants: Kirckman, Kirchmann) were English harpsichord and later piano makers of Alsatian origin, active from the 1750s until the late 1800s.
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Leopoldo Franciolini
Leopoldo Franciolini (1844–1920) was an Italian antique dealer who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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List of historical harpsichord makers
This page presents a graphical timelines, listing historical makers of the harpsichord and related instruments such as the virginal, spinet and clavicytherium. Harpsichord and list of historical harpsichord makers are baroque instruments, early musical instruments and keyboard instruments.
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List of keyboard instruments
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. Harpsichord and List of keyboard instruments are keyboard instruments.
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List of solo keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) wrote 555 solo keyboard sonatas throughout his career.
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Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. Harpsichord and lute are baroque instruments, basso continuo instruments and Renaissance instruments.
Manual (music)
The word "manual" is used instead of the word "keyboard" when referring to any hand-operated keyboard on a keyboard instrument that has a pedalboard (a keyboard on which notes are played with the feet), such as an organ; or when referring to one of the keyboards on an instrument that has more than one hand-operated keyboard, such as a two- or three-manual harpsichord. Harpsichord and Manual (music) are keyboard instruments.
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Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer and pianist.
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Martha Goldstein
Martha Goldstein (born Martha Svendsen; June 10, 1919 – February 14, 2014) was an American harpsichordist and pianist, who gave concerts in the United States, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
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Martin Skowroneck
(Franz Hermann) Martin Skowroneck (21 December 1926, in Berlin – 14 May 2014, in Bremen) was a German harpsichord builder, one of the pioneers of the modern movement of harpsichord construction on historical principles.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.
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Music stand
A music stand is a pedestal or elevated rack designed to hold sheets of music in position for reading.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Harpsichord and musical keyboard are keyboard instruments.
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Musical tuning
In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.
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Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.
Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
Organ stop
An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as wind) to a set of organ pipes.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pascal Taskin
Pascal-Joseph Taskin (27 July 1723 – 9 February 1793) was a Holy Roman Empire-born French harpsichord and piano maker.
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Pedal keyboard
A pedalboard (also called a pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a bass pedalboard) is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low-pitched bass line of a piece of music. Harpsichord and pedal keyboard are keyboard instruments.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings. Harpsichord and piano are c instruments and keyboard instruments.
Piano Concerto No. 26 (Mozart)
The Piano Concerto No.
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Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Harpsichord and pipe organ are baroque instruments, basso continuo instruments, c instruments and keyboard instruments.
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Plectrum
A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument.
Polyoxymethylene
Polyoxymethylene (POM), also known as acetal, polyacetal, and polyformaldehyde, is an engineering thermoplastic used in precision parts requiring high stiffness, low friction, and excellent dimensional stability.
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Quill
A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird.
Range (music)
In music, the range, or chromatic range, of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play.
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Recitative
Recitative (also known by its Italian name recitativo is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech. Recitative does not repeat lines as formally composed songs do. It resembles sung ordinary speech more than a formal musical composition.
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Renaissance music
Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines.
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Romanization of Russian
The romanization of the Russian language (the transliteration of Russian text from the Cyrillic script into the Latin script), aside from its primary use for including Russian names and words in text written in a Latin alphabet, is also essential for computer users to input Russian text who either do not have a keyboard or word processor set up for inputting Cyrillic, or else are not capable of typing rapidly using a native Russian keyboard layout (JCUKEN).
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Ruckers
The Ruckers family (variants: Ruckaert, Ruckaerts, Rucqueer, Rueckers, Ruekaerts, Ruijkers, Rukkers, Rycardt) were harpsichord and virginal makers from the Southern Netherlands based in Antwerp in the 16th and 17th century.
Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.
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Short octave
The short octave was a method of assigning notes to keys in early keyboard instruments (harpsichord, clavichord, organ), for the purpose of giving the instrument an extended range in the bass range.
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Sound board (music)
A soundboard (occasionally called a sounding board) is the surface of a string instrument that the strings vibrate against, usually via some sort of bridge.
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Southern Netherlands
The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were the parts of the Low Countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire which were at first largely controlled by Habsburg Spain (Spanish Netherlands, 1556–1714) and later by the Austrian Habsburgs (Austrian Netherlands, 1714–1794) until occupied and annexed by Revolutionary France (1794–1815).
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Spinet
A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ. Harpsichord and spinet are early musical instruments.
Split sharp
A split sharp is a kind of key found in some early keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, clavichord, or organ.
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Spruce
A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.
Suite (music)
A suite, in Western classical music, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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The Well-Tempered Clavier
The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels
Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels (Treatise on Harmony Reduced to Its Natural Principles) is a music treatise written by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
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Transposition (music)
In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval.
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Triangle (musical instrument)
The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system. Harpsichord and triangle (musical instrument) are early musical instruments.
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University of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
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Violet Gordon-Woodhouse
Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (23 April 18729 January 1948) was a British keyboard player.
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Virginals
The virginals is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. Harpsichord and virginals are early musical instruments and keyboard instruments.
Wanda Landowska
Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century.
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William Byrd
William Byrd (4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer.
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William Dowd
William Richmond Dowd (28 February 1922 – 25 November 2008) was an American harpsichord maker and one of the most important pioneers of the historical harpsichord movement.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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See also
Baroque instruments
- Alto recorder
- Angélique (instrument)
- Baroque guitar
- Baroque instruments
- Baroque orchestra
- Baroque trumpet
- Baroque violin
- Bass recorder
- Bassoon
- Carillon
- Colascione
- Contrabass recorder
- Cornett
- Corno da tirarsi
- Garklein recorder
- Gould Stradivarius
- Great bass recorder
- Harp
- Harpsichord
- Lautenwerck
- List of historical harpsichord makers
- Lute
- Mandolin
- Musette de cour
- Natural horn
- Natural trumpet
- Nicholas Alexandre Voboam II
- Oboe
- Oboe da caccia
- Pardessus de viole
- Pipe organ
- Pochette (musical instrument)
- Recorder (musical instrument)
- Serpent (instrument)
- Sopranino recorder
- Soprano recorder
- Taille (instrument)
- Tenor recorder
- Theorbo
- Timpani
- Torban
- Viola
- Voice flute
Basso continuo instruments
- Cello
- Colascione
- Double bass
- Harpsichord
- Lute
- Pipe organ
- Serpent (instrument)
- Theorbo
- Viol
C instruments
- Bass flute
- Bass trumpet
- C melody saxophone
- C soprano saxophone
- Celesta
- Cello
- Contrabass bugle
- Cornettino
- Double bass
- Guitar
- Harpsichord
- Marimba
- Piano
- Pipe organ
- Vibraphone
- Viola
- Violin
- Western concert flute
Renaissance instruments
References
Also known as Arpicordo, Clavecin, Clavessin, Clavicembalo, Clavicymbal, English Virginal, Hapsichord, Harpischord, Harpsi, Harpsicall, Harpsichord Materials, Harpsichords, Harpsicon, Harpsicord, Klavecimbel, Pedal harpsichord, Virginall, Virginalls.