The virginals is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A virginals...
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The Music Lesson (redirect from Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman)
The Music Lesson, Woman Seated at a Virginal or A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Johannes Vermeer is a painting of a young female pupil receiving...
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Harpsichord (section Virginals)
family of similar plucked-keyboard instruments, including the smaller virginals, muselar, and spinet. The harpsichord was widely used in Renaissance and...
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the keyboard (that is, they are parallel to the player's gaze); and in virginals they are parallel to the keyboard, in a spinet the strings are at an angle...
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Ruckers (section Ruckers harpsichords and virginals)
something like a'=415 Hz, while smaller virginals were pitched a tone, 4th, 5th, 8ve or a 9th higher. Some virginals were built as double instrument, with...
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Chimes Vibraphone Xylophone Keyboards Clavichord Clavicytherium Electronic keyboard Harmonium Harpsichord Organ Piano Spinet Virginals Others Ghatam v t e...
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except Henry II's wife Catherine de' Medici. Mary learned to play lute and virginals, was competent in prose, poetry, horsemanship, falconry, and needlework...
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Look up virginalĀ or virginals in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The virginal, or virginals, is a keyboard instrument. Virginal may also refer to: Virginity...
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skilled on the lute and played the organ, and was a talented player of the virginals. He could also sightread music and sing well. He was an accomplished musician...
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collection, the two most notable purchases are Johannes Vermeer's Lady at the Virginals and a set of Canalettos, but it is as a collector of books that he is...
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