harpsichord
IPA: hˈɑrpsʌkɔrd
noun
- (music) A musical instrument with a keyboard that produces sound through a mechanical process. When the performer presses a key, a corresponding plectrum plucks a tuned string. The harpsichord originated in late medieval Europe and is one of the most important instruments used to perform Baroque music.
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Examples of "harpsichord" in Sentences
- His interests expanded to the harpsichord.
- His expertise is the organ and harpsichord.
- His instruments were the piano and the harpsichord.
- She played and composed for the harpsichord and the piano.
- Besides the piano, Fung also plays the harpsichord and violin.
- He taught the piano and the harpsichord and continued researching.
- “I am very fond of books and music; my harpsichord was my delight.”
- "I am very fond of books and music; my harpsichord was my delight."
- On later occasions, he also played the harpsichord in the orchestra.
- In the orchestra, the harpsichord and the first violin are prevalent.
- At the peak of its development, the harpsichord lost favor to the piano.
- "The harpsichord was a wedding gift from a grateful employer, I suppose?"
- The alto saxophone and harpsichord are also featured in the instrumentarium.
- Over the harpsichord was a portrait of the Colonel himself, painted before she was born.
- But the mind was as clearly the result of the bodily organization as the music of the harpsichord is the result of the instrumental mechanism.
- As for the rest of the album, let me just point out that it's sad when a harpsichord is the only good thing about a song, as is the case in "Aleph."
- The man who was born within an echo of the harpsichord was the most important inspiration and influence on the creation and development of the modern piano.
- Thus our heroine, though possessed of more philosophy than usually falls to the share of a young beauty, could not sometimes prevent the intrusion of uneasy reflections: upon these occasions her harpsichord was her general resource, and a lesson from some favourite composer would, at any time, reharmonize her mind.