Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ears that like it, the music of the 18th-Century harpsichord rustles sweetly, subtly, with a wealth of tonal color. To ears that don't, its clucks and scratches sound like a hen yard. The strings of the harpsichord, controlled by a full keyboard and pedals, are plucked by quills, instead of being struck by hammers like the piano's. For an oldtimer, the harpsichord is still stepping lively. Last week Vienna-born Yella Pessl, who has given 70-odd harpsichord programs on the radio (CBS) since last June, returned to the air after a brief vacation. While...
...every sound and intonation, but contained so many odd characters, special marks and accents as to be utterly unusable for ordinary purposes. Dr. Harrington and I were asked to work out an alphabet in which Navajo could be written understandably, using only what is to be found on the keyboard of a standard typewriter...
...sensation there was last week at Manhattan's Town Hall. There, with practically no advance ballyhoo, a slight, dark-eyed, French-Canadian nine-year-old named André Mathieu hurried onto the stage, bowed stiffly, and pounced upon the keyboard of a huge concert grand. The audience applauded with delight at his precociously efficient playing of piano pieces by Chopin, Debussy and Ravel, but what left them wide-eyed with wonder was his musicianly performance of 14 of his own complicated and expert compositions, some of them written when he was only four. None of them was childish. Some...
...Diferencias by Cabezon is the earliest composition on the program and represents the work of one of the first great figures in Spanish music. It also typifies one of the first forms in which keyboard music was composed. Writing variations on a melody was of course a very obvious way of employing in extended compositions the capabilities of these newly developed instruments. Its ascetic reserve, the strong influence of vocal style, and the simple form of Cabezon's compositions give them a quiet charm characteristic of early keyboard music...
...time of the sixteenth century choral school, Spain's place in the history of music has not been particularly impressive. That a change has come about in the musical status of this nation is demonstrated by the fact that two concerts devoted wholly or in part to the keyboard music of Spain will be given here this week. Thursday evening George Copeland, celebrated for his interpretation of the modern Spaniards, will play a program in Jordan Hall including several compositions of this school. We are primarily interested, however, in Joaquin Nin-Culmell's concert of Spanish music from Cabezon...