Keyboard Instruments

Keyboard Instruments

1. Characteristics

   • Equipped with finger-operated keys that produce sounds of different heights by acoustic, electronic and electromagnetic means
   • They are polyphonic: they can produce several different sounds at the same time
   • Antecedent: "Hydraulis", Greek hydraulic organ (century III a.c)
   • In Europe they appear around the century XV
   • The keyboard is the front part or section, which is provided with keys and intended to be operated by means of the fingers of the hands.
   • Musical keyboards are made on the basis of oriental tuning.

2. Famous Songs or Artists

   • For Eliza - Ludwig van Beethoven
   • Canon in D major - Johann Pachelbel
   • Prelude No. 1 - Johann Sebastian Bach
   • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Serenade No. 13 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   • Prelude Op. 28 - Frédéric Chopin

3. What Instruments are They?

   • Chordophones
     • Clavichord
     • Harpsichord
     • Hurdy-gurdy
     • Clavinet
     • Piano
   • Aerophones
     • Piano Accordion
     • Pump Organ
     • Pipe Organ
     • Melodic
     • Regal
   • Idiophones
     • Carillon
     • Celesta
     • Electric Piano
     • Terpodion
   • Electrophones
     • Synthesizer
     • Optigan
     • Electronic Organs
     • Electronic Keyboard

4. History

   • Musical keyboards are made on the basis of the oriental hobby.
     • The conventional arrangement of notes on the keyboard dates back to the 15th century
       • The idea of ​​the keyboard can be given up to the 3rd century BC with the hydraulis (Greek water organ)
         • The origin of the plane as an instrument invented by Pythagoras

5. Importance In Music

   • Revolutionary in the eighteenth century because for the bourgeoisie it became the main training.
     • It became an architectural artifact with the great organs, in the Baroque era.
       • Piano studies were considered for marital contractions.
         • Being indispensable for the bourgeoisie, it gave way to great artists who expressed themselves through the instrument.
           • Later it lost popularity with the arrival of entertainment such as the radio or the PHONOGRAPH.
             • However, it evolved to become the pedagogical instrument par excellence, thanks to the fact that it gathered qualities to easily teach MUSIC.
               • The importance lies in being a key instrument so that ideas can be expressed easily without being an expert.

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