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The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".
The year 1700 in music involved some significant events. ... An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for ...
An instrument of 1688 [16] is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, and an instrument of 1700 [17] is in the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota. Nicholas Alexandre Voboam II ( c. 1634 /46–1692/1704).
Baroque music (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / or US: / b ə ˈ r oʊ k /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. [1] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style).
Pages in category "1700s in music" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bach's early cantatas; C.
Musical instruments used in Baroque music were partly used already before, partly are still in use today, but with no technology. [1] The movement to perform music in a historically informed way, trying to recreate the sound of the period, led to the use of historic instruments of the period and to the reconstruction of instruments.
Boalch-Mould Online A searchable database of 2000+ harpsichord and clavichord makers, 2500 instruments, and 4300 instrument photos. Dearling, Robert, ed. (1996). The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments. London: Carlton. ISBN 978-1-85868-185-6. Hubbard, Frank (1967). Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making (2 ed.). Harvard University Press.
When the piano was invented in 1700, it failed to catch the public's attention due to its expense and the fact that the harpsichord was the preferred instrument of the time. Very few people knew of the piano until after the Seven Years' War when a young man named Johannes Zumpe fled Germany for London.