Clavichord for Beginners

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Clavichord for all Keyboardists
• What is a Clavichord?
• Clavichord for Keyboard Beginners
• For Harpsichordists
• For Players of Early Piano
• For Modern Pianists
• For Organists
• For Singing Clavichordists
• A Personal Note for Aspiring Clavichordists
• 2. Preparing to Play
• Ways of Relaxing
• Touch Awareness
• Finger Awareness, Seated
• Finger Interaction, Seated
• Exercise For Finger Independence
• Exercise For Flexible Wrists
• Getting to Know Your Clavichord
• Position at the Keyboard
• Control of Tone and Pitch
• 3. Clavichord Lessons Series I
• Lesson One: Lowering a Key Soundlessly
• Lesson Two: Making a Sound
• Lesson Three: Playing Two Notes in a Row
• Lesson Four: Including a Raised Key
• Lesson Five: Bach's Cantabile Touch
• Lesson Six: Producing a Cantabile (Singing) Sound
• Lesson Seven: Cantabile with Fingers 4 and 5
• Lesson Eight: Cantabile With the Thumb
• Lesson Nine: Cantabile on two Successive Notes
• Lesson Ten: Playing Five Notes in a Row
• Lesson Eleven: Timing
• Lesson Twelve: Five Finger Exercise
• 4. Clavichord Lessons, Series II
• Lesson One: Degrees of Softness
• Lesson Two: Degrees of Loudness
• Lesson Three: Crescendo and Diminuendo on Five Notes
• Lesson Four: Contrast in Dynamics, Two Hands
• Lesson Five: Articulation on Single Notes
• Lesson Six: Articulation on Two Notes
• Lesson Seven: Leaping with one Finger
• Lesson Eight: Playing Intervals
• Lesson Nine: For a Flexible Thumb
• Lesson Ten: The Makings of a Scale
• 5. Preparing for Pieces
• 6. Eleven Easy Pieces
• 7. Exploring the Past: 15th Through 17th Centuries
• 8. Exploring the Past: Eighteenth-Century Germany
• 9. Exploring the Present and Future
• Selected Bibliography
• Extended bibliography
• Index
• About the Author