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		Harpsichord Fingering ^Votes:0 Harpsichord Fingering Position at the keyboard To be seated at a good height, the underside of the elbows wrists and fingers are level. The center of the body and that of the keyboard should coincide. One should turn very slightly to the right, the knees not pressed together, with the right foot extended. One must have an air of ease at the harpsichord (Fran?ois Couperin, 1716). The elbows are a bit below the level of the keyboard, so the hands are as if glued to the keys, giving the fingers as much contact as possible (Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1725). Finger motion The wrist must always stay relaxed, and so the fingers. The movement of the fingers is entirely from where they join the hand - no large movement should be made where a smaller one will suffice. (Rameau) The movement of J.S.Bach's Read More Go to Site


		Future Publishing - Websites ^Votes:0 Websites As well as producing some of the UK's most popular magazines, Future Publishing also produces some of the world's top websites to accompany them. Entertainment/Youth Music Sport Auto Women's interest Pastimes Computing and photography Consumer electronics Magazine subscription shops Website enquiries Problems with the website? Spotted a broken URL? Then email our Webmaster . Advertising Online We work with all types of advertising: button ads, banners, Flash, newsletters and sponsorship. If you want to advertise on Future's award-winning websites please contact Ryan Ferguson . Content Syndication Would you like to license our content for use on your website? Then check out our Syndication Pages for more information. Work Experience · Directions · Future Plus · Distribution · Inves Read More Go to Site

		Future Publishing - Websites ^Votes:0 Websites As well as producing some of the UK's most popular magazines, Future Publishing also produces some of the world's top websites to accompany them. Entertainment/Youth Music Sport --> Auto Women's interest Pastimes Computing and photography Consumer electronics Magazine subscription shops Website enquiries Problems with the website? Spotted a broken URL? Then email our Webmaster . Advertising Online We work with all types of advertising: button ads, banners, Flash, newsletters and sponsorship. If you want to advertise on Future's award-winning websites please contact Ryan Ferguson . Content Syndication Would you like to license our content for use on your website? Then check out our Syndication Pages for more information. Work Experience · Directions · Future Plus · Distribution · I Read More Go to Site

		Harpsichord Inititative ^Votes:0 Big Duck's Harpsichord Miscellany ------------------------------------------------ The weather in Princeton is just ducky. This corner contains miscellaneous items that pertain to the harpsichord. 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. To add to the miscellany, or to post something for sale, contact bigduck. Visit a new site: The Practitioners of Musick The Princeton Early Keyboard Center at www.pekc.org Join the Harpsichord Mailing List. Harpsichord Primer Current Builders Latin Mottos A Harpsichord Across Time Copyright ? 1996-2005, Reid Byers This page last updated 7/1/05 Comments, help, diatribes. Momeranem - Prom 2006 Graduation 2006 Member of the Harpsic Read More Go to Site

		Harpsichord Sound - Sustaining Notes ^Votes:0 Harpsichord Sound - Sustaining Notes What could seem simpler: program a computer to read music and produce a MIDI sound file directly. No more hours practising scales! Let's begin with the best - the Well-Tempered Klavier of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose publication in 1722 was selected by Life Magazine as one of the hundred key events of the past millennium: The first prelude, as written Click here to hear it the way a computer scanner plays it Music notation was designed for people to read, not computers! As even Fran?ois Couperin admitted, "we write differently from the way we play", adding that "there is an infinite distance between scores and good playing". And, Couperin was far more meticulous in his notation than others of his time. Bach was renowned for his singing legato style on t Read More Go to Site

		Harpsichord Touch ^Votes:0 The Difference Between Piano and Harpsichord Touch Anyone who has ever played a harpsichord knows that the touch is entirely different from a piano's. The harpsichord feels "crunchy." This is because in depressing the key you must overcome the resistance the plectrum is exerting against the string. You can feel when the plectrum passes by the string. (You can hear it, too, of course, because the harpsichord then sounds that note.) Excess force causes an unpleasant "thumping." A virginal feels the same way. The clavichord's touch is much like an organ's, yet the key dip (the distance the key travels before it reaches the full extent it may be depressed) is extremely shallow. Any excess force will cause the instrument to play out of tune. If you are a pianist approaching the harpsichord fo Read More Go to Site

		Scores, Sounds & Sources ^Votes:0 Scores, Sounds & Sources Links to Publishers & Retailers for sheet music Links to Inventories, Databases, Periodicals, Bibliographies Links to Music Software Links to Midi & Sound files Facsimiles, Editions & Texts Acadia Early Music Score Archive (Gordon Callon) Acadia Early Music Facsimile Archive Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (Olivier Bettens) Ap Huw Manuscript (Greg Lindahl) Arbeau's Orchesography - Musical settings (Joseph Casazza) Complete text (Nicolas Graner) ArenaÏ Ensemble Database 15th & 16th-Century Music (Art Levine) Cantigas de Santa MarÍa (Greg Lindahl) Centre Coral (FederaciÓ Catalana d'Entitats Corals) Choral Public Domain Library (Rafael Ornes) Classical Guitar and Lute Tablature (Allan Alexander) Copenhagen Chansonnier Coppini Edition (Jens Peter Jacobsen) Read More Go to Site

		Scores, Sounds & Sources ^Votes:0 Scores, Sounds & Sources Links to Publishers & Retailers for sheet music Links to Inventories, Databases, Periodicals, Bibliographies Links to Music Software Links to Midi & Sound files Facsimiles, Editions & Texts Acadia Early Music Score Archive (Gordon Callon) Acadia Early Music Facsimile Archive Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (Olivier Bettens) Ap Huw Manuscript (Greg Lindahl) Arbeau's Orchesography - Musical settings (Joseph Casazza) Complete text (Nicolas Graner) ArenaÏ Ensemble Database 15th & 16th-Century Music (Art Levine) Cantigas de Santa MarÍa (Greg Lindahl) Centre Coral (FederaciÓ Catalana d'Entitats Corals) Choral Public Domain Library (Rafael Ornes) Classical Guitar and Lute Tablature (Allan Alexander) Copenhagen Chansonnier Coppini Edition (Jens Peter Jacobsen) Read More Go to Site

		Sounds of harpsichords and related instruments ^Votes:0 Sounds of harpsichords and related instruments... http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/hpsi.html Dr. Bradley P Lehman (doctorate in harpsichord, Univ of Michigan, 1994) / bpl@umich.edu Compare them! [ Introduction ] [ Sounds ] [ Links ] [ Technical notes/Kudos ] Introduction These samples are each approximately fifteen seconds long, files of about 300K, dubbed from compact discs. The "CD info" links each go to an appropriate entry at another site where you may learn more about or purchase the disc. , --> CDNOW , from which you may also purchase many of these discs. --> In some cases, they also have better sound samples from these albums, using RealAudio or other formats. - Bradley Lehman --> Major disclaimer! These sound samples (all in ste Read More Go to Site

		The Hot Harpsichord Information Centre ^Votes:0 Hot Harpsichord Information Center Home Anatomy of the Harpsichord The Valenti Project Barbara Cadranel Glad you could make it! Let me take you on a personal tour of these extraordinary historical keyboard instruments! J.S. Bach, Handel, and Domenico Scarlatti were all born in 1685, though not in the same place, nor in the same time of day, nor in the same hospital, nor did they have the same "au pair" or diaper service. Some of the most fabulous art and music of all time was created in that era, which was dubbed the Baroque. Handel wrote operas and oratorios in which the harpsichordist was the conductor (maestro al cembalo), as well as concerti and solo works. Bach wrote so much incredible solo harpsichord music that you could take pocket scores and an instrument to a desert isl Read More Go to Site

		The Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments ^Votes:0 The Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments St Cecilia's Hall Museum of Instruments This website has been re-organised. Please follow links to: St Cecilia's Hall Museum of Instruments: What to see, Opening Times and Map Information about the University's musical instruments collections including the Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments The Friends of St. Cecilia's Hall and the Russell Collection including details of publications, CDs and techical drawings relating to early keyboard instruments This page updated: 30.7.04 Read More Go to Site

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