(March 2, 2017 at 2:43 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: Harpsichord keyboards are very light. They feel much closer to organ keys but a bit more tactile due to the sensation of the plectra plucking the strings. They don't require any arm or body weight. All the motion for striking a key is limited to the fingers so it feels sort of like typing. If I were to play a piano as lightly as a harpsichord you'd hear nothing. Haha. We also tend to use much different fingerings, especially in older music from the medieval and renaissance where we barely use our thumbs and play scales with patterns such as 3434 and 3232. But with Bach we use more modern fingerings since he's so difficult.
And yes, all classical musicians dress like Lurch actually.
(March 2, 2017 at 2:42 pm)Alex K Wrote: I don't recognize it, some kind of sonata? Is this native harpsichord music with all the dynamics in there?
It's the last two pages of a fugue from a sonata. It was intended for either harpsichord or clavichord. It also exists as the very famous solo violin sonata in A minor. Bach later made this arrangement for keyboard.
Ah the clavichord option explains it Nice! Yes I know the transscribed violin sonatas but I don't know them by heart of course.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition