Lexicographical Neighbors of Clavecins
Literary usage of Clavecins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889): ...edited by Sir by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1890)
"For this retrospect the pamphlet of the Chevalier Léon de Burbure—' Recherches
sur les Facteurs de clavecins et les Luthiers d'Anvers' (Brussels, 1863), ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"It is here sufficient to be enabled to prove that a kind of organ sounding with
strings was existing in 1387—and that clavecins were catalogued in 1503, ..."
3. Histoire générale de la musique depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'à by François-Joseph Fétis (1876)
"Toutefois le même auteur nous apprend qu'il y avait aussi des clavecins dont le
... d'instruments et qui étaient contemporains de l'usage de ces clavecins, ..."
4. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"His especial and unique work was the collection of ancient Belgian musical
instruments, clavecins, dulcimers and spinets. By degrees he accumulated the ..."
5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"Marias, in February 1716, submitted, perhaps a pianoforte, and certainly four
models for actions of 'clavecins à maillets, ' or hammer harpsichords, ..."
6. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"Some of the clavecins, like that in Tournay belfry, for instance, we regret to
say, are shockingly out of repair ; we could not ascertain that there was any ..."
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