Renaissance virginals
A fine piece of renaissance virginals, indeed. It's sad that we don't know who composed it though. However, it was found in the Dublin Virginal Book, under Variations on the Romanesca, from around 1570. Performed by Christopher Hogwood, under the conduction of none other than Mr. David Munrow,...
Double Virginal - played by James Nicolson
A beautiful audio fragment from William Byrd's "Lord Willobies Welcome Home" About the instrument: During the time known to us as the High Renaissance, a number of musical instruments, especially keyboard instruments, developed into spectacularly successful forms for enjoyment within a...
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- Tags: Double Virginal
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Muselar Virginal Demonstration
Virginals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Muselar (also muselaar or muselars) virginals were made only in northern Europe. Here, the keyboard is placed right of centre and the strings are plucked about one third the way along their sounding length. This gives a warm rich and fundamental...
- vaporthug
- Length: 4:31
- Tags: Harpsichord instrument muselar virginal
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La Volta by William Byrd (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
A famous piece by William Byrd this time. Could be played perhaps a bit more lively, but not on this virginal however. The new bone keys are working much better, but still you have to play carefully on this instrument. I will try to add some more weight to the keys, I think. My Hard disk probably...
- ernststolz
- Length: 1:36
- Tags: harpsichord williambyrd cembalo virginal virginals klavecimbel Byrd lavolta
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Jan Vermeer at work while listening to virginal music
Monumenta musica Neerlandica Almande de Symmerman (Susanne van Soldt Manuscript) A colage of two famous paintings by Vermeer, to create the rigth atmosphere for this small almand de Symmerman. In the Thysis lutebook this piece is called Almande Nivell. An other title of this almand is ëin...
- ernststolz
- Length: 1:19
- Tags: klavecimbel Virginaal Johannes Vermeer virginal virginals harpsichord cembalo clavecin early music Klassiek
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Fantasia Chromatica version on virginals
a new version of me playing this work on virginals (or virginal). The virginal is more used for playing variations on popular tunes, but this is an instrument which was very well known to Sweelinck. It has a more lute-like sound and I think this fantasia sounds very well on my Ruckers copy by...
- ernststolz
- Length: 7:54
- Tags: virginals virginal virginaal spinet harpsichord cembalo clavecin klavecimbel Sweelinck ernststolz
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