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  • noun Plural form of harpsichord.

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  • At the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, overlooking the river in the west of the suburb, Chief Executive Patrick Pickett said that harpsichords, double basses and cellos had been moved to higher floors and the building evacuated.

    Floods Slam Australian City Enda Curran 2011

  • The porter introduced me to one of those venerable ancient types all colleges possess: he had a gammy leg and a skin disease and a collection of harpsichords in his rooms.

    A Room of One’s Own « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • The biennial Boston Early Music Festival, which begins on Sunday, is best known for its lavish period productions of rare operas this year, it will be Agostino Steffani's "Niobe, Regina di Tebe" of 1688, visiting early-music luminaries like Jordi Savall, and its exhibition full of harpsichords, recorders and viols for sale.

    Second-Class Repertoire No More Heidi Waleson 2011

  • The biennial Boston Early Music Festival, which begins on Sunday, is best known for its lavish period productions of rare operas this year, it will be Agostino Steffani's "Niobe, Regina di Tebe" of 1688, visiting early-music luminaries like Jordi Savall, and its exhibition full of harpsichords, recorders and viols for sale.

    Second-Class Repertoire No More Heidi Waleson 2011

  • Never mind that Nacho Duato and Jirí Kilián, the popular and influential European choreographers, brought corsets and harpsichords together first, years ago -- though if you have been lucky enough to have missed that trend, Pérez-Salas's work is a reasonably attractive echo.

    Mexican troupe's trite take on female sexuality Sarah Kaufman 2010

  • At the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, overlooking the river in the west of the suburb, Chief Executive Patrick Pickett said that harpsichords, double basses and cellos had been moved to higher floors and the building evacuated.

    Australian Flood Threatens Brisbane David Fickling 2011

  • Most impressive is the opening, with the dancers grouped in contrapposto poses, the distinctive Renaissance S-curve of the torso, as harpsichords sound.

    A singular vision: Nearing 80, Paul Taylor is as moving a dance figure as ever 2010

  • In retirement, he enjoyed making harpsichords and clavichords.

    Mark S. Beaubien dies at 88; led NIH center on international health research 2010

  • J.S. BACH CHAMBER WORKS, Jacques Ogg, harpsichord, and Kenneth Slowik, viola de gambe and harpsichord, perform three sonatas and the Concerto in C for two harpsichords. 7: 30 p.m.,

    D.C. community calendar, Sept. 23 to 30, 2010 2010

  • Rousset uses one of the oldest surviving French harpsichords for the recording, too – arecently restored instrument from 1658, with a beautifully reedy sound that suitsthese pieces perfectly.

    Couperin: Suites 2010

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