81. MUSEA ANTWERPEN - Museum Vleeshuis built by the RuckersCouchet Family Playthings for the Muses The historical musical instruments in the Vleeshuis Stradivarius among harpsichord Builders The http://museum.antwerpen.be/vleeshuis/collectie_06_eng.html

Harpsichords built by the Ruckers-Couchet Family Playthings for the Muses The historical musical instruments in the Vleeshuis Stradivarius among Harpsichord Builders The Ruckers-Couchet family dominated the Antwerp production of keyboard instruments from the end of the 16th until the middle of the 17th century. Their harpsichords found their way into all European countries and some even travelled as far as South America. The instruments built by Hans, Joannes and Andreas Ruckers (first half of the 17th century) are exhibited on a platform on the ground floor. They are flanked by some harpsichords from Antwerp builders, active during the second half of the 18th century (Jacobus van den Elsche and Joannes Petrus Bull). In the centre of the hall on the ground floor, a number of Antwerp harpsichord from the 17th century are displayed on a platform. Most instruments are built by members of the Ruckers-Couchet family. This family of harpsichord builders dominated the production in Antwerp at the end of the 16th century and during the first half of the 17th century. The sound boxes of the Ruckers harpsichords are often painted with imitation marble designs. Inside flowers and insects are drawn on the soundboard. Around the upright boards above the soundboard, above and along the keys and on the inside of the lid decorative paper is glued with arabesques and dolphin motives in black against a white background.The lid often has moralising inscriptions. The inside of the lid is often decorated with a charming scene.

82. Musica Viva: The Free Sheet Music Directory: Harpsichord sheet music, Musicnotes.com Find harpsichord music at musicnotes.com. Rog free sheet music Dutch site with music for choir and for various keyboard instruments. http://www.musicaviva.com/fsmd/list.tpl?category=harpsichord

83. Harpsichord Books - Instrument Books - Musical Instruments Bass Guitar Bassoon Bugle Cello Clarinet Classical Guitar Cymbals Drums Electric Guitar Flute French Horn Guitar Harp harpsichord Mandolin Oboe instruments. http://www.hobbydo.com/instruments/harpsichord-books-1.html

Musical Instruments Home General Instruments Music Theory Instrument Books Bagpipes Banjo Baritone Bass ... Xylophone Sections Brass Keyboards Percussion Strings ... Woodwinds Styles Baroque Blues Classical Country ... Swing Instruments Guitars Keyboards Digital Drums HobbyDo Search Now: Harpsichord books The Music Box: The Story of Cristofori By: Suzanne Guy, Donna Lacy Publisher: Brunswick Publishing Corporation New Price: Read more... Five Centuries of Keyboard Music By: John Gillespie Publisher: Dover Pubns List Price: New Price: Used or other Price: Read more... Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard By: Paul Badura-Skoda, Alfred Clayton Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand New Price: Used or other Price: Read more... The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style By: W. Dean Sutcliffe Publisher: Cambridge University Press List Price: New Price: Used or other Price: Read more... The Harpsichord Owner's Guide: A Manual for Buyers and Owners By: Edward L. Kottick, R. Masters, Jorgensen Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr List Price: New Price: Used or other Price: Read more...

84. American Society Of Ancient Instruments for the viols and the harpsichord. Such works carry the idiom of contemporary music, yet stylistically explore the characteristics of these instruments. http://www.baroque-asai.org/

American Society of Ancient Instruments The emblem is based on fifteenth century manuscript style. The music is from a song written about 1400 by Baude Cordier with words particularly fitted to the goal of the Society. 'Vous fais le don d'un chanson nouvelle - I make you the gift of a new song.' What is the American Society of Ancient Instruments? The six centuries before 1700 produced in Europe a music which remains rich and vital for the audience of today. It is music not generally heard in the concert hall and until recently it was almost unknown. It is music worth hearing, however, not as a curiosity or by some select group, but simply because it is good music. The American Society of Ancient Instruments presents this music on the instruments for which it was written. Performed by artists familiar with the techniques and ideals of its time, the music is revealed as a fresh, vigorous language of human beings who have not only a part of our heritage; it is still very much alive. The ensemble of the Society consists of a quartet of viols and a harpsichord, each played by a specialist devoted to becoming as skillful as possible on his chosen instrument. When the music planned for a concert calls for additional instruments, guest artists are invited to play with the Society.

85. Harpsichord Unlimited For information on some modern replicas instruments, please access the Hubbard harpsichord web site. For further reading, I recommend Vol. http://harpsichord.org:8080/Harpsichord/aboutHarpsichords.jsp

86. Taming The Harpsichord t like the harpsichord because it s unfamiliar, or because they remember how it sounded twenty years ago, she points out. Today s instruments are infinitely http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm4-9/harpsicord.htm

Home Content Articles La Scena Musicale ... Search La Scena Musicale - Vol. 4, No. 9 June 1999 Taming the Harpsichord Alain Bénard June 1, 1999 Authoritative yet inspired, today's harpsichordists are masters of their instruments as never before. The resurgence of interest in period music has led to a rediscovery of the spirit of baroque compositions and the harpsichord's subtle resonance. Audiences are drawn to this instrument in growing numbers, while established fans are intrigued by its expanding repertoire. In anticipation of the forthcoming harpsichord festival (les Journées du clavecin) and the Montreal International Harpsichord Competition, featuring French composers and scheduled for June 3 to 6 at the Salle Pierre-Mercure in the Pierre-Péladeau Centre, we talked to four experts in the art of the harpsichord Catherine Perrin, Geneviève Soly, Hank Knox, and Réjean Poirier. Renaissance The harpsichord owes its current renaissance to the rise of interpretative schools in the recent past. These have had a significant effect on both the building and playing of the instrument. It was after musicians began using period instruments (or modern reproductions) that things began to develop, says harpsichordist and organist Réjean Poirier, dean of the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal. "Until the early 1960s, the harpsichord revival focused on Wanda Landowska's approach to the instrument. Musicians looked at the instrument from a modern standpoint, however. They didn't play old instruments, and the repertoire was still being rediscovered. The importance of the instrument the need to find a good instrument was not considered. Generally speaking, people were doing a great deal of research to try to recapture the spirit of baroque music, but the return to period instruments was just beginning."

87. New Music For Early Instruments THE BACH CHORALE VOR DEINEM THRON TRET ICH HIERMIT (1993) 13 GSR for harpsichord and string quintet MUSIC FOR harpsichord AND PERCUSSION instruments (1972) 9 http://www.schirmer.com/repertoire/early_inst.html

New Music for Early Instruments Available from G. Schirmer/AMP and affiliates updated 8 July 1996 Elliott Carter (b. 1908) SONATA (1952) 18' AMP for flute, oboe, cello, and harpsichord Score 50480574, parts 50224940 for sale Henry Cowell John Harbison (b. 1938) MOMENTS OF VISION (1975) 24' AMP Text: (En) Thomas Hardy for soprano, tenor, and Renaissance consort Vagn Holmboe (b. 1909) CONCERTO FOR RECORDER, Op. 122 (1974) 17' WH Recorder; perc/str SONATA, Op. 145 (1980) 14' WH for recorder and harpsichord Score and part for sale TRIO, Op. 133 (1977) 19' WH for recorder, cello, and harpsichord Score and parts WH29786 for sale Bo Holten (b. 1948) SARABANDE A TROIS (1984) 19' WH for oboe, cello, and harpsichord Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) EASY VARIATIONS FOR RECORDER TRIO 5' GSR SAT Recorders Kare Kolberg (b. 1936) PASTICCIO (1976) 6' NS for recorder quartet Ezra Laderman (b. 1924) EPIGRAMS AND CANONS (1990) 7' GS for two Baroque flutes Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934) BUXTEHUDE: CANTATA "ALSO HAT GOTT DIE WELT GELIEBET" (1970) 12' CH Text: (Gr) Bible for soprano, flute, harpsichord/celesta, violin, and cello PURCELL: FANTASIA ON ONE NOTE (1973) 5' CH afl, cl, perc, hpd(brandy glass, vc[one note]), vn(hpd), vc TENEBRAE SUPER GESUALDO (1972) 20' CH Mz, gtr; afl, bcl, mba(glock), hpd(cel, hmn), vn(va), vc

88. Thesaurus Of Musical Instruments : Search Interface harpsichord. ML651 (History). MT252 (Instruction). M20 M39 (Music). UF, Spinet (harpsichord). Virginal. RT, Piano. BT, Keyboard instruments. http://alteriseculo.com/instruments/index.cgi?t=harpsichord

89. Thesaurus Of Musical Instruments : Search Interface Please send your comments, corrections, and questions to instruments@alteriseculo.com . Compiled 200205-03. Electronic harpsichord. M20 - M39 (Music). http://alteriseculo.com/instruments/index.cgi?t=electronic harpsichord

90. Index Of Instruments: Harpsichord Area link. harpsichord. French horn, oboe and lute there really are all the instruments in the big VivaldiStudio orchestra. In this http://www.vivaldistudio.com/Eng/instr.asp?Instrument=Harpsichord&Start=0&Step=2

91. Links -- Instruments Musical instruments harpsichord, Clavichord, et c. The Russell Collection of Early Keyboard instruments, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland Robert Deegan http://www.phy.duke.edu/~dtl/36linki.html

Links to Acoustics and Music Resources Musical Instruments If you know of other web sites that might be included here, please suggest them to the instructor [please enter "36newlink" as the Subject of your e-mail message]. If you encounter problems with any of the links listed here, please alert the instructor [please enter "36badlink" as the Subject of your e-mail message]. Musical Instruments: General Smithsonian Institution "Music Room" Musical Instrument Makers, Sources, and Services , a growing commercial database of information for 16 countries, from the US to Russia. Organized by country and type of instrument. Royal College of Music , London An index of technical drawings of a wide variety of musical instruments. International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections Musical Instruments: Early winds and strings (including instruments faithful to early design principles) Douglas Gunn's Links (Ireland) an extensive set of links on early musical instruments and a variety of related subjects.

92. Keyboard Instruments The harpsichord was larger and more elaborate. (Listen to a piece* written for harpsichord by William Byrd.) Another instrument in the same family was the http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/keyboard.html

Book: Chapter: Keyboard instruments Spinet. Shrine of Music Museum Pictured here is a spinet, in which, like the harpsichord, the strings are plucked rather than struck by hammers. The harpsichord was larger and more elaborate. ( Listen to a piece* written for harpsichord by William Byrd.) Another instrument in the same family was the virginal, a name which invited inevitable puns* in both Shakespeare's sonnets and his plays. A picture of a portable organ Another keyboard piece by Byrd: a "Coranto" for harpsichord played by John Sankey: [Sound file available on CD-ROM only.] The literary background: English Renaissance music. Page 11 of 16. Map Search Further reading Comments and questions ... University of Victoria

93. Home|Collections|Collection Of Ancient Musical Instruments|Keyboard Instruments| This harpsichord is the oldest preserved and signed instrument from the Vienna area. It has a very short vibrating string length, indicating a high tuning. http://www.khm.at/staticE/page197.html

Ancient Musical Instruments Stringed instruments Plucked instruments Keyboard instruments Wind instruments ... Publications Harpsichord Johann Christoph Pantzner Vienna , 1747 Case made of walnut; stand in the form of a Baroque chest of drawers. SAM Inv. No. 848 < back next >>

94. Home|Collections|Collection Of Ancient Musical Instruments|Keyboard Instruments| harpsichord making. In contrast to most Italian instruments, the cases of Flemish harpsichords were very massive. The soundboard http://www.khm.at/staticE/page196.html

Ancient Musical Instruments Stringed instruments Plucked instruments Keyboard instruments Wind instruments ... Publications Harpsichord Joannes Daniel Dulcken Antwerpen, 1745 Case made of poplar wood with gold rocailles and flowered garlands painted on a red ground L: 260 cm SAM Inv. No. 726 < back next >> Joannes Daniel Dulcken was, except for the Ruckers family, considered to be the leading exponent of Flemish harpsichord making. In contrast to most Italian instruments, the cases of Flemish harpsichords were very massive. The soundboard of this splendid instrument (with two manuals) has floral motives done in gouache, while the case itself is embellished with gold rocailles and flowered garlands painted on a red ground. The painting on the lid was probably added later, in Austria, and dates from the second half of the 18th century. Sound sample (410 kb) QuickTime player required: free download

95. Harpsichords By ZHI A harpsichord is more than simply an instrument upon which one makes music; it is also a decorative object, a visual as well as an aural feast. http://zhi.net/

Home News Instruments Parts ... Privacy elcome to Zuckermann Harpsichords International and this showcase of its custom D J acques W ay finished instruments, Zuckermann standard finished instruments, instrument part sets, individual parts, and accessories. ZHI is the world's leading maker of superior-quality harpsichords, spinets, virginals, clavichords, and fortepianos. Many of our instruments feature the designs of the late David Jacques Way, who was dedicated to researching and understanding keyboard instruments from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The modern harpsichord derives from several countries and historical periods, but every harpsichord or virginal works in the same way: when a key is pressed, its far end elevates a slip of wood called a jack. The jack is fitted with a plectrum of bird quill or extremely durable plastic that plucks the string. The string vibrates and transmits its energy to the soundboard, which vibrates in response, creating pressure waves in the air surrounding it. These waves are transmitted to the ears, and through a complex mechanical and neurological process the brain converts that energy into the incomparable glittering, majestic sound of the harpsichord. A harpsichord is more than simply an instrument upon which one makes music; it is also a decorative object, a visual as well as an aural feast. The decoration of our custom-finished instruments is based on the best extant antiques, seeking not to copy them as much as to recreate their baroque and early-classical motifs. The result, enlivened by a soundboard painting and gold bands and moldings, is in an instrument of ageless beauty.

96. Medieval And Renaissance Instruments This is Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide to Medieval and Renaissance instruments. This contains pictures, descriptions, and the history of the instruments used in playing early music. A Guide http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html

97. Vincent Ho Early Music Webpage Early music and instruments, sound files of harpsichords and clavichords, and a table with pictures of the author's early music instruments collection, from medieval psalteries to renaissance recorders. http://www.tsoft.com/~hbv/earlymus/

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98. Early Keyboard Instruments By ZHI ZHI DJW instruments. Zuckermann Harpsichords International is one of the world s leading producers of keyboard instruments based on historical models. http://zhi.net/instr/

Home News Instruments Parts ... Search Information Harpsichord Tour Kit Stages Kit FAQ Harpsichords French Double DJW ZHI Flemish Double DJW ZHI German Double DJW ZHI Flemish Single DJW ZHI German Single DJW ZHI Italian Single DJW ZHI Muselaar DJW Flemish Spinet ZHI Eng. Bntsd Virginals ZHI Octave ZHI Italian Clavichords ZHI Fretted ZHI Unfretted Fortepiano ZHI Stein Harpsichord Tour Kit Stages Kit FAQ Zuckermann Harpsichords International is one of the world's leading producers of keyboard instruments based on historical models. The harpsichords, spinets, virginals, clavichords and fortepianos produced in our Stonington shop derive primarily from designs of the antique masters. Our team of skilled and highly-experienced craftsmen work with authentic materials to produce superb musical instruments, world-renowned for their structural stability and musical superiority. Whether you decide to purchase a custom, D. Jacques Way instrument, a standard, finished ZHI instrument or one of ZHI's parts sets, you may rest assured that you've gotten the best that money can buy. Harpsichords French Double Harpsichord 61 notes DJW French Double Harpsichord 63 notes ZHI Flemish Double Manual Harpsichord 56+1 notes DJW ZHI German Double Manual Harpsichord 56+2 notes DJW ZHI Flemish Single Manual Harpsichord 56+1 notes DJW ZHI German Single Manual Harpsichord 56+2 notes DJW ZHI Italian Harpsichord after Grimaldi 56+1 notes DJW Italian Harpsichord Short Octave 49 notes ZHI Muselaar Flemish Muselaar 45 notes DJW Spinet English Bentside Spinet 61 notes ZHI Virginals Octave Virginal

99. Tony Chinnery Harpsichords Builder of copies of original harpsichords and other keyboard instruments near Florence in Italy. Catalogue of instruments made. MP3 samples. http://www.tony-chinnery.com

Tony Chinnery Early Keyboard Instruments Strumenti Antichi a Tastiera Historische Tasteninstrumente Please choose a language English Deutsch Italiano Tony Chinnery Via Padule, 93 Vicchio(FI) 50039 Italy Tel:(39)-0558407817 chinnery@dada.it This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here

100. Carl Dudash Harpsichords harpsichords and clavichords in the styles of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries in their workshop in the northwest hills of Connecticut. Their instruments http://www.vintageperformance.com/cdh/

Carl Dudash Harpsichords P.O. Box 200 Norfolk, Connecticut 06058 (860) 542-5753 Carl and Marilee Dudash design, build, and decorate harpsichords and clavichords in the styles of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries in their workshop in the northwest hills of Connecticut. Their instruments have been sent to customers across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Carl's designs are firmly based on historic principles, but they incorporate changes to improve structural integrity and modifications to customize the instrument to suit the client's wishes. Marilee is an accomplished artist who has studied the decoration of antique instruments in the finest museum collections in Europe and the United States. Her work includes traditional soundboard paintings, landscape paintings for lids and cases, faux marbre, chinoiserie, and gold leaf or bronze powder case designs. Detail of chinoiserie from 1989 French Double Working with you "Our approach to building an instrument for you is simple. We listen to what you tell us about the kind of music you want to play, the space into which the instrument will go, and your preferences in decoration. Then we suggest an instrument which will suit your needs or, if necessary, we'll design an entirely new one for you. Having over 24 years of experience in design, building and decoration, we can assure you that you will be pleased with your instrument." Carl Dudash Some friendly advice on buying an instrument

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