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Definition of Cembalo
1. Noun. A clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots.
Generic synonyms: Clavier, Klavier
Specialized synonyms: Spinet, Pair Of Virginals, Virginal
Derivative terms: Harpsichordist
Definition of Cembalo
1. n. An old name for the harpsichord.
Definition of Cembalo
1. Noun. (musical instruments) harpsichord ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cembalo
1. a harpsichord [n -LI or -LOS] - See also: harpsichord
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cembalo
Literary usage of Cembalo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"cembalo. Adagio. frr l L. v. Beethoven,' it is only in one movement, and was
probably printed for the first time in the first edition of this Dictionary. ..."
2. Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: Being a Narrative of Travels in the by Henry Danby Seymour (1855)
"Balaclava — Karl Hitter's views of the imi>ortance of the Black Sea in very early
times — Homer's account of Balaclava — The cembalo of the Genoese — Tatar ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"It was most likely the bell-like tone of the wire strings struck by the hammers
of the dulcimer that attracted to it the name of cymbal or cembalo. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Roman instrument of this kind so old as the Roman cembalo at South Kensington (fig.
11). It was made by Gerónimo of Bologna in 1521, two years before the ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Homonyms: Pronouncing and Explanatory by A. F. Inglott Bey (1899)
"... a narrative of presa. Agréable ; qui plaît ; prise ; capture. Tall, a, tâl.
High in stature ; lofty. playing, two of them are struck together. cembalo ..."
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