clavichord

How To Use clavichord In A Sentence

• The clavichord was, in effect, a series of monochords placed in a single box, and it was called monochordia (manicorde, etc.) by many 15th and 16th-century writers.
• She has also mastered harpsichord and clavichord, conducted, and provided scholarly editions of some of Bach's non-keyboard works.
• 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
• Consistent with Ficino's recommendations, a drawing by Carpaccio suggests that many (if not all) of the instruments represented in the studioli were likely performed therein, including those instruments bearing connotations of the "music of the spheres," such as the clavichord, organ, and lute. 246 Other instruments, like the cittern found at Gubbio, were as readily available in a tavern as in a princely studiolo. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• Clavier or Klavier normally meant the clavichord, whereas the harpsichord was usually called Instrument or Cembalo.
• I longed to make a sound on the glass flute or play a Bach on the clavichord; it seemed an injustice to have such precious instruments locked away behind glass cases, never again to be played.
• They talked together privately and sat together at supper and afterwards he played to her on the clavichord and the lute.
• It seems, nevertheless, that his ‘organ-like’ extemporisations were called forth by the clavichord, if not actually the organ.
• As she rises from a low chair at which she has been playing the clavichord, she disentangles the folds in the capacious dress which emphasises her tiny form.
• Examples are the Edinburgh Young Violinist, the enigmatic Dulwich Lady at a Clavichord and The Young Mother at the Hague.