How To Use Cembalo In A Sentence
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Contemporaneously with the spinet, and of almost equal antiquity, was an instrument in the form of a grand piano, called in Italy the clavicembalo, and in England the harpsichord.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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Handel played second violin in the orchestra before becoming maestro al cembalo.
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N.B. -- I send my sister, by him, "6 duetti a clavicembalo e violino," by Schuster.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
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To this group belonged the virginal, or virginals, the clavicembalo, the harpsichord, or clavecin, and the spinet.
For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
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I have given the first place in description to Cristofori's actions, instead of to the "cembalo" or instrument to which they were applied, because piano and forte, from touch, became possible through them, and what else was accomplished by Cristofori was due, primarily, to the dynamic idea.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
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The orchestra consisted of one lira doppia, one clavicembalo, one chitarrone and two flutes.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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The orchestra consisted of one lira doppia, one clavicembalo, one chitarrone and two flutes.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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This was intended to be a portable, amplifiable version of the Cembalo, or Harpsichord.
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The CD by the Ghielmi brothers surprisingly features a fortepiano rather than a harpsichord as its cembalo continuo, on the reasoning that Bach was familiar with very early models of the fortepiano (invented in 1698) and is even known to have played the instrument.
Album reviews: 17th century works for viola da gamba
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Ricordi of Milan has published his works for the clavicembalo, in six volumes, under the supervision of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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He had given some thought to the idea of a string quintette with cembalo, he said.
The Road Leads On
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Estense "piano e forte" may have been a hammer cembalo, a very imperfect one, of course.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
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The right cembalo in the right hands provides a cleansing of the musical palate, enjoyable to the point of tears.
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These instruments were called _bundfrei_, "unbound," in opposition to the _clavicembalo_, which was called _gebunden_, or "bound.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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The cembalo was the favorite instrument in Italy during the seventeenth century, and in England it had a great currency under the name of harpsichord.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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Clavier or Klavier normally meant the clavichord, whereas the harpsichord was usually called Instrument or Cembalo.
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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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Each singer made his own, which the _maestro al cembalo_ accompanied with a few simple chords.
Style in Singing
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And yes, "cembalo" could at the time refer to a fortepiano as well as to other keyboards.
Album reviews: 17th century works for viola da gamba
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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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The singing had a bald accompaniment of an orchestra placed behind the scenes and consisting of a clavicembalo, or harpsichord, a viola da gamba, a theorbo, or large lute, and a flute, the last being used to imitate Pan-pipes in the hands of one of the characters.
For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
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Reb for the link): "L'Orchestra du Roi Soleil, Raymond Scott, Sibelius, Mozart, The Beach Boys 'song In My Room, and the gravicèmbalo col piano e forte all make appearances in Cadaver Dogs, as well musical terms like hemiola and tactus.
WhimsyLand
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A.D. 1598, and the reference is evidently to an instrument of the spinet or cembalo kind; but how the tone was produced there is no statement, no word to base an inference upon.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
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In the midst of the orchestra, the cembalo has been placed.
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I send my sister, by him, "6 duetti a clavicembalo e violino," by Schuster.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The instrumental ensemble he has assembled - the scores that have come down to us do not indicate instrumentation - consists of three violins, two violas, two cellos, two cembalos, two lutes, harp, two flutes, dulzian, and two cornets.
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Moreover he shows great capacity in his compositions for the organ, the cembalo, and other instruments.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock