Word: clavier
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...from Dante with a cry from the Sanskrit epic poems, it annoys my friend, Professor X. But the students understand very well that what he means is that all literature is one expression of one human life experience. And when James Joyce plays upon 24 languages as upon a clavier they don't find it preposterous. All the languages in the world are but local differentiations of one planetary tongue. These concepts are very full of something frightening but they are also full of promise...
...from Dante with a cry from the Sanskrit epic poems, it annoys my friend, Professor X. But the students understand very well that what he means is that all literature is one expression of one human life experience. And when James Joyce plays upon 24 languages as upon a clavier they don't find it preposterous. All the languages in the world are but local differentiation's of one planetary tongue. These concepts are very full of something frightening but they are also full of promise...
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier (Wanda Landowska, harpsichord; Victor, 2 sides LP). The second installment (Preludes and Fugues 9-16) of 71-year-old Harpsichordist Landowska's definitive "last will and testament" (TIME, June 20, 1949). Recording: excellent...
...music historians agree as to just how Bach came to write his two concertos for three pianos-a complicated, not to say cumbersome, kind of composition on the face of it. Bach Biographer Albert Schweitzer cites a tradition that Bach wrote them (actually for the light-toned clavier) to play with his two eldest sons, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. Others believe he wrote them for his students while he was conductor of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig...
Bach: Preludes and Fugues 1-8, The Well-Tempered Clavier (Wanda Landowska, harpsichord; Victor, 12 sides 45 r.p.m.). Bach composed this cornerstone of contemporary contrapuntal music "for the use and profit of young musicians anxious to learn, and as a pastime for others already expert in the art." Here the first eight (the rest are to come) are masterfully set forth by the foremost living expert. Recording: excellent...