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    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, 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 virginal 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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  • Anne. In addition to his singing ability, he also played the lute, viol, virginals and the organ. Smeaton originally joined the choir of Cardinal Wolsey...
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  • Portable Folding harpsichord Orphica Spinets Oval spinet Square Square piano Virginals Uprights Clavicytherium Upright pianos Aerophones produce sound primarily...
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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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    dancing, wrestling, casting of the bar, playing at the recorders, flute, virginals, in setting of songs and making of ballads". The tradition of the Garter...
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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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    she entertained a visiting French delegation with a performance on the virginals (a type of harpsichord). A great part of her early education came from...
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    A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals is a painting by Johannes Vermeer, though this was for a long time widely questioned. A series of technical examinations...
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  • an instrument which he classed with the clavichord, spinet, regal and virginals, but without giving any clue to its distinctive characteristics. Schlesinger...
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  • Woolfson – Projectron (track 1), Fender Rhodes (track 2), clavichord and virginals (track 3), piano (tracks 5–7, 9), organ (track 6), backing vocals (3,...
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    England. 'Virginals' was a generic word at the time that covered all plucked keyboard instruments – the harpsichord, muselaar and virginals, but most...
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    Farga (1950), Rockliff Publishing Corporation Ltd. Viols, Violins and Virginals, by Jennifer A. Charlton (1985), Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 0-907849-44-X...
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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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    Ulrich Museum in Brunswick, Germany The Music Lesson or A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman (c. 1662–1665), Royal Collection in London Girl with...
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    settling, Philips married and gained a precarious living by teaching the virginals to children. In 1593 he went to Amsterdam "to sie and heare an excellent...
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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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