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Virginals
Flemish virginals by Hans Ruckers, 1583, Antwerp (Paris, Musée de la Musique). Note the inset keyboard placed left of centre.
Classification
Keyboard instrument
Playing range
C2/E2 to C6 (45 notes); some Italian models C2 to F6 (54 notes)
Related instruments
harpsichord, spinet, clavicytherium
The virginals[a] is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.
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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...
family of similar plucked-keyboard instruments, including the smaller virginals, muselar, and spinet. The harpsichord was widely used in Renaissance and...
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...
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...
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...
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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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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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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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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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...
she painted Woman At Virginals which may have been a portrait of her sister Christina. It is thought that her self portrait and the Woman At Virginals were a pair...
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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A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals is a painting today attributed to Johannes Vermeer, though this was for a long time widely questioned. A series...
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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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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