I have noticed on radio in the US that some orchestras often play Bach way too fast. I want the 20th century way of playing Baroque music, not a 21st century jazzed up style. And is the Harpsichord dying out? I know they are very expensive! Maybe that is just an American thing. ...
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Ockelford argues his case by a comparative analysisof Mozart’s piano sonata K.333 with J. C. Bach’s sonata for piano/harpsichord Op. 5, No. 3. He declares the former a work of genius, the latter as merely demonstrating talent. Elsewhere he makes similarly profound analyses ofT...
This is the instrument that is most often associated with musicians such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was the immediate predecessor to the piano. Like a banjo, the harpsichord’s strings are plucked by a plectrum. The keys on the keyboard operate the plectrum, givin...
but there was no plucked harpsichord or percussion harpsichord. Their strings were made of raw silk. And it seemed that they didn’t know to use strings made from the intestines of animals. Their musical instruments could play the same harmony as ours, but their music did not differentiate be...
On one of the television episodes there was a guest artist, a sixteen year old pianist, Andre Watts. He played the most difficult music for piano, a piano concerto by Liszt. (In a piano concerto the piano is featured and the orchestra plays too.) I had the chance to hear him in a ...
What is used to play string instruments? Musicians play some string instruments byplucking the strings withtheir fingers or a plectrum—and others by hitting the strings with a light wooden hammer or by rubbing the strings with a bow. In some keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, the...
Strings and dampers in a grand piano Sostenuto pedal (Middle) The sostenuto pedal holds notes that are already being played at the moment when the pedal is pressed down. Any notes that begin after the pedal is down are not affected. This produces a selective sustain effect, holding down ...
[made with gut rather than the usual wire] and nails which make it harp” or buzz. This is likely to be thearpichordomentioned by Italian writers of the 16thand early 17thcentury, a cross between a harpsichord and a bray harp. The Flemish and northern European renaissance keyboard, the ...