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The harpsichord was widely used in Renaissance and Baroque music, both as an accompaniment instrument and as a soloing instrument. During the Baroque era, the harpsichord was a standard part of the continuo group .
The New Grove musical dictionary summarizes the earliest historical traces of the harpsichord: "The earliest known reference to a harpsichord dates from 1397, when a jurist in Padua wrote that a certain Hermann Poll claimed to have invented an instrument called the 'clavicembalum'; [1] and the earliest known representation of a harpsichord is a sculpture (see below) in an altarpiece of 1425 ...
A History of the Harpsichord. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34166-3. O'Brien, Grant (2008). Ruckers: A Harpsichord and Virginal Building Tradition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-06682-2. Rueger, Christoph (1986). Musical Instruments and Their Decoration. Cincinnati, Ohio: Seven Hills Books,. ISBN 0-911403-17-5.
History of the harpsichord, Edward L. Kottick, 2003, 1.ed., Indiana University Press Ruckers A harpsichord building tradition, Grant O´Brien, 1990, 1. ed., Cambridge University Press A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Jeffery T. Kite-Powell , 2007, Indiana University Press
Spinet by Zenti from 1637, now in the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels. The angling of the strings also had consequences for tone quality: generally, it was not possible to make the plucking points as close to the nut as in a regular harpsichord. Thus spinets normally had a slightly different tone quality, with fewer higher harmonics ...
The term color organ refers to a tradition of mechanical devices built to represent sound and accompany music in a visual medium. The earliest created color organs were manual instruments based on the harpsichord design. By the 1900s they were electromechanical. In the early 20th century, a silent color organ tradition (Lumia) developed.
A 1773 Shudi harpsichord equipped with Venetian swell; now in the Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels. Charles Burney preferred the tone of Shudi's harpsichords to Kirkman 's and his instruments were highly valued; his customers included Frederick the Great , Empress Maria Theresa , Joseph Haydn , Muzio Clementi , the Prince of Wales ...
The instrument was likely the purchase of Grand Prince Ferdinando, an avid collector of musical instruments under whose auspices Cristofori invented the piano. [4] Frederick the Great of Prussia, a devotee of both war and music, took a folding harpsichord with him on his campaigns. [5] The instrument belonged to his grandmother, Queen Sophia ...