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The concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060, is a concerto for two harpsichords and string orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is likely to have originated in the second half of the 1730s as an arrangement of an earlier concerto, also in C minor , for oboe and violin .
A harpsichord [a] is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, ...
Like the other harpsichord concertos, BWV 1052 has been widely believed to be a transcription of a lost concerto for another instrument. Beginning with Wilhelm Rust and Philipp Spitta , many scholars suggested that the original melody instrument was the violin, because of the many violinistic figurations in the solo part—string-crossing, open ...
Acoustic resonance is also important for hearing. For example, resonance of a stiff structural element, called the basilar membrane within the cochlea of the inner ear allows hair cells on the membrane to detect sound. (For mammals the membrane has tapering resonances across its length so that high frequencies are concentrated on one end and ...
Resonance made visible with black seeds on a harpsichord soundboard Cornstarch and water solution under the influence of sine wave vibration A demonstration of sand forming cymatic patterns on a metal plate. Cymatics (from Ancient Greek: κῦμα, romanized: kŷma, lit. 'wave') is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena.
With the harpsichord revival in the 20th century, harpsichordists commissioned new pieces for the new 'revival' instrument: Wanda Landowska commissioned concerti from Francis Poulenc and Manuel de Falla. Though the 'revival instruments' have now fallen out of favour, concerti continue to be written for harpsichord, though are now more likely to ...
The Sonata in E ♭ major for flute and harpsichord, probably by J. S. Bach (BWV 1031), is a sonata in 3 movements: Allegro moderato (in E ♭ major) Siciliano (in G minor) – unusually, this movement is in the mediant minor key (the relative minor of the dominant key) Allegro (in E ♭ major)
Manuscript of the first movement of BWV 1019, third version, copied by Johann Christoph Altnickol. The six sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014–1019 by Johann Sebastian Bach are works in trio sonata form, with the two upper parts in the harpsichord and violin over a bass line supplied by the harpsichord and an optional viola da gamba.