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HPSCHD premiered before an audience of 6000 on May 16, 1969, at the Assembly Hall of Urbana Campus, University of Illinois. Conceived as a highly immersive multimedia experience, the performance featured David Tudor, Antoinette Vischer, William Brooks, Ronald Peters, Yūji Takahashi, Neely Bruce and Philip Corner playing harpsichords whose sounds were captured and amplified, 208 tapes playing ...
The Partita for Harpsichord and Orchestra, [1] sometimes also referred to as Partita for Harpsichord, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Harp, Double Bass, and Chamber Orchestra [2] [3] [4] or Harpsichord Concerto, is a composition by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It was finished in 1971 and is Penderecki's only major composition for a ...
Jean-Philippe Rameau, by Joseph Aved, 1728. The French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau wrote three books of Pièces de clavecin for the harpsichord.The first, Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin, was published in 1706; the second, Pièces de Clavessin, in 1724; and the third, Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin, in 1726 or 1727.
The notes leading down to F 1 were accommodated on the keys of a "short-scaled octave" from c to C (only F ♯ 1 and G ♯ 1, as well as C ♯ and E ♭ continued to be omitted. [6] The assignment of notes to keys, which strikingly included a triple-split key, was as shown in the following diagram, adapted from (Maunder 1998):
As the full title of the piece denotes, the piece is scored for a solo organ, timpani and a string orchestra.The piece uses such comparatively small forces, relative to Poulenc's other concertos (the Concert champêtre used a full orchestra as accompaniment), [5] so that the piece could be played in a quite small space with an organ, such as Princess Edmond's salon, that were quite popular in ...
The Triple Concerto, BWV 1044, is a concerto in A minor for traverso, violin, harpsichord, and string orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach.He based the composition on his Prelude and Fugue BWV 894 for harpsichord and on the middle movement of his Organ Sonata BWV 527, or on earlier lost models for these compositions.
The spinettone incorporated multiple choirs of strings, with a disposition of 1 × 8 ft, 1 × 4 ft, and used the same ingenious mechanism for changing stops that Cristofori had earlier used for his oval spinet. The spinettone was a local success among the musicians of the Medici court, [3] and Cristofori eventually built a total of four of them ...
Figure 1: schematic view of a 2 × 8' single manual harpsichord. The keylever is a simple pivot, which rocks on a balance pin that passes through a hole drilled through the keylever. The jack is a thin, rectangular piece of wood that sits upright on the end of the keylever. The jacks are held in place by the registers. These are two long strips ...