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🟑 Woman Playing Music on a Spinet 1902 Thomas Wilmer Dewing⁣
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Woman Playing Music on a Spinet 1902 Thomas Wilmer Dewing

Beautiful, richly coloured depiction of a woman playing the spinet/piano, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing.

earlymusicTOFeb 13, 2025
Rectangular Octave Virginal | probably German ca.1600
The Metropolitan Museum of Art [Not on view]
This octave #virginal is in polygonal form, once part of a #claviorganum (combined organ-spinet). It is called an "octave" #spinet because its short strings sound an octave or more above normal pitch... 

Case of walnut or chestnut and lime; compass c/e-a3, bone naturals with thin wooden key fronts carved in a trefoil design, accidentals of dark-stained fruitwood...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504474
Rectangular Octave Virginal | probably German | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
earlymusicTOSep 4, 2024

Girolamo Alessandro #Frescobaldi (1583-1643) #prodigy studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi, later became organist of St Peter's Basilica #virtuoso

"Toccata Prima" from Book II
#ColinBooth plays one of Frescobaldi's classic toccatas on an octave #spinet of his own manufacture.

https://youtu.be/gzDjI_vFdZY?si=ASM7oCn1MFU_TlVk (3:54)

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earlymusicTOMay 15, 2024

Girolamo #Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
"Toccata Prima" from Book II (1637)

#ColinBooth plays on an octave #spinet of his own manufacture. www.colinbooth.co.uk
https://youtu.be/gzDjI_vFdZY?si=iLSD38Hx4QBTprPV 3:54

Frescobaldi's pupils included numerous Italian composers, but the most important was a German, Johann Jakob Froberger, who studied with him in 1637–41. Frescobaldi's work was known to, and influenced, numerous major composers outside Italy, including Henry Purcell, Pachelbel, & Bach. wiki

Frescobaldi, Toccata Prima BkII

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