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... English music is usually for the harpsichord . The French described the clavichord contemptuously as a mere ' box of flies ' , and it is difficult to find any evidence of its use in eighteenth - century France ; the English , too ...
... English music is usually for the harpsichord . The French described the clavichord contemptuously as a mere ' box of flies ' , and it is difficult to find any evidence of its use in eighteenth - century France ; the English , too ...
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... English music . But Young returned to England at the Restoration to become a member of the King's string band , and his viol fantasies show how intimate were his links with the English tradition . His sonatas , in fact , stand midway ...
... English music . But Young returned to England at the Restoration to become a member of the King's string band , and his viol fantasies show how intimate were his links with the English tradition . His sonatas , in fact , stand midway ...
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... English translation in Arnold ( 1931 ) , Strunk ( 1951 ) . M. AGRICOLA ( 1528–9 ) : Musica instrumentalis deudsch . N. AMMERBACH ( 1571 ) : Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur . F. T. ARNOLD ( 1931 ) : The Art of Accompaniment from a ...
... English translation in Arnold ( 1931 ) , Strunk ( 1951 ) . M. AGRICOLA ( 1528–9 ) : Musica instrumentalis deudsch . N. AMMERBACH ( 1571 ) : Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur . F. T. ARNOLD ( 1931 ) : The Art of Accompaniment from a ...
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Adagio Avison Bach's baroque bass bass-line bassoon C. P. E. Bach choir chords church clavichord composer's composers concerto consort contemporary continuo continuo instruments continuo-playing contratenor Corelli cornetts Couperin crotchet crumhorns dances double-bass early music editor eighteenth eighteenth-century English ensemble extemporization Facsimile figured bass flute fortepiano French style fugue German Handel harmony harpsichord Haydn improvised instance interpretation Italian style keyboard instrument keyboard music kind lute madrigal manuscripts medieval medieval music modern edition mordent motet movement Mozart music written musician mute cornett notation note-values notes oboe old music orchestra organ original ornaments part-books performance piano piece plainsong played player polyphonic present-day printed Purcell Purcell's quavers Renaissance roulades sarabande scholar seventeenth century shawm singers singing sixteenth century slow slur solo sonatas song sonorities sound strings sung symbols taste technique tempo tenor theorbo tone tone-colours treble trill trombones trumpets tune vibrato viol viola violin vocal voices writing