Word: pavan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biggs and members of the Stradivarius Quartet.. Opening the program is a group of English organ solos by William Byrd. John Bull, Purcell. William Walond, organist at Oxford in the eighteenth century, and John Stanley, the famous blind organist at the Temple during the same century. Byrd's Pavan for the Earl of Salisbury was commonly played on the virginals, and Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary and Trumpet Airs on the harpsichord. But since at that time the general term "clavier" applied indiscriminately to all keyboard instruments, a clavier piece might be played either on the virginals, harpsichord, clavichord...