Word: clavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proper belfries have bells, as well as bats, and some have chimes. Only the finest belfries have carillons. A carillon has at least 23 bells,* tuned to all the notes of the scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat-like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music...
...sponsored by the musical clubs of Harvard and Radcliffe and presenting instrumental and vocal selections will be given at 8.15 o'clock this evening in Paine Hall. The program will include Moxart's "Piano Sonata for Four Hands," the "Stabat Mater" of Thomson, Bach's "Sonata for Flute and Clavier," Hindemith's "Frau Musica," and several other selections...
Bach's Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Nos. 10-17 by Pianist Evlyn Howard-Jones (Columbia, $8)-A continuation of the Clavier series begun by Pianist Harriet Cohen (Nos. 1-9). Evlyn Howard-Jones, a capable London musician, was coolly received when he played in the U. S. Songs & Ballads...
...great length for use in the Lutheran service (it takes nearly three hours to perform). It was conceived probably with little thought for its future, as an expression of Bach's own deep, personal faith, inspired by the simple piety that led him to inscribe even the little clavier pieces composed for his children with the words In Nomine Jesu. Yet the text adheres to the form of the Ordinary of the Roman Mass. It begins with the Kyrie Eleison, Greek words which mean "Lord have mercy upon us." The conventional divisions follow: the Gloria (Gloria in excelsis Deo, "Glory...