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Chapter 43
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- 1capitalisman economic system in which the means of production of goods are privately owned and continually reinvested to bring ever-increasing wealth to private individuals
- 2Alberti bassanimates simple triads by playing notes successively
- 3murky bassrepeat the bass note, but in alternating octaves
- 4pianoforteChristofori invented a mechanism to strike the string with a soft hammer and have it then fall quickly and quietly back to its resting position
- 5acciaccaturacrunching downbeat dissonances
- 6hand-crossingleft hand must cross over the right to create an exciting three-level texture
- 7Frederick the Greatleader of Prussia; enlightened leader p. 412
- 8Essay on the True Art of Playing the Keyboardmost influential instruction book for keyboard in the eighteenth century written by C.P.E. Bach
- 9empfindsamer stillterm applied to the hyper-expressivity that affected northern European arts generally in the second half of the eighteenth century
- 10Bebungidk what the fuck this is
- 11fantasiaeighteenth century rhapsodic, improvisatory work, often unbarred, in which the creative imagination waxes unfettered by conventional musical forms
- 12Bach-Abel concertspublic concert that lasted for 20 years and became a model for the public concert series in London and elsewhere throughout Europe (J.C. Bach and Carl Abel)
- 13square pianosimilar in shape and size to early virginal; strings running at right angles to the keys all set within a small rectangular box that could easily sit upon a table or a simple stand
- 14grand pianoterm applied to a large piano with sturdy legs and strings running roughly in the same direction as the keys
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