How to Play the Harpsichord: Early Keyboard Fingerings

HOW TO PLAY THE HARPSICHORD: EARLY KEYBOARD FINGERINGS / One of the most important parts of learning how to play the harpsichord is knowing about early keyboard fingerings. In this video I discuss what early keyboard fingerings are, how they changed over time, how to practice and apply them, and how to find further information about them.

I use a wealth of examples from the 16th through the 18th centuries that give insight into how to play a harpsichord. Examples include music by Christian Erbach, Orlando Gibbons, Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, Alessandro Scarlatti, François Couperin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Nicolò Pasquali, Tomás de Sancta María, and Edward Miller, and quotes by Girolamo Diruta, Jean Denis, and CPE Bach.

This video is part of a series I’m creating on how to play harpsichord, and I have already put out a video on basic harpsichord technique, which you can find here:    • How to Play the Harpsichord: Basic Te...  

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Note: Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means that I’ll earn a small commission if you purchase the treastises or books I mention after clicking on the link.

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MODERN EARLY KEYBOARD FINGERING RESOURCES I MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO:

Early Keyboard Fingerings: An Anthology compiled by Mark Lindley and Maria Boxall

Early Keyboard Fingerings: A Comprehensive Guide by Mark Lindley and Maria Boxall

The Fingering of Virginal Music edited by Peter Le Huray
https://amzn.to/3fr4LQq

Historical Harpsichord Technique: Developing La douceur du toucher by Yonit Kosovske
https://amzn.to/324OgGx

Performance Practice: Music after 1600 edited by edited by Howard Mayer Brown and Stanley Sadie
https://amzn.to/3rqEDdN

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HISTORICAL TREATISES I MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO:

Ammerbach: preface to Orgel oder Instrument Tabulatur (1571)
https://bit.ly/3kEg4W2

CPE Bach: Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (1753)
English Translation: https://amzn.to/3cpPwVp
Original: https://bit.ly/33VQxku

Banchieri: Conclusioni nel suono dell’organo (1609)
https://bit.ly/32SDUr6

Buchner: Fundamentbuch (c1520)
(manuscript at UB Basel; edited in Erbe Deutscher Musik, Band 54/55)

F. Couperin: L’art de toucher le clavecin (1716)
English Translation: https://amzn.to/3I4H2BI
Original: https://bit.ly/2EnpB4a

Diruta: Il Transilvano (1593)
https://bit.ly/2ZUS4WA

Miller: Institutes of Music. . . (1780)
https://bit.ly/3hNoLLK

Nivers: Livre d’orgue I (1665)
https://bit.ly/35XMsig

Pasquali: The Art of Fingering the Harpsichord (1760)
https://bit.ly/3mCx5lf

Penna: Li primi albori musicali. . . (1672)
https://bit.ly/3kATZaI

Rameau: Pièces de clavecin: avec une méthode sur la méchanique des doigts (1724)
English Translation: https://amzn.to/3A270Dj
Original: https://bit.ly/3kEVW5W

Saint-Lambert: Les principes du clavecin (1702)
English Translation: https://amzn.to/3GAeX50
Original: https://amzn.to/34M0iWg

Sancta Maria: Libro llamado arte de tañer fantasía. . . (1565)
https://bit.ly/3j5oq8s

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DR. ALICE CHUAQUI BALDWIN. For more about me, check out my website:
https://www.alicebaldwinmusic.com/


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The photo (which has been cropped) of music and fingerings by Hans Buchner comes from here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

The image (which has been cropped) of the Erbach “Ricercar” comes from here:
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/b...

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