FOOTNOTES:[155]The exact date is not known.[156]Both St. Thomas school and church are still In existence. The boys’ choir is one of the finest in Germany and may be heard as in Bach’s time every Sunday of the year, in a motet.[157]This famous letter is printed in full in Spitta’sLife of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is illuminating in regard not only to Bach’s character, but to his family life as well.[158]The clavichord was suitable only for the most intimate sort of music. It differed from the harpsichord in that the tone of it was produced not by a plucking of the strings but by a pressure brought to bear on them by little uprights attached to the key levers. The tone was very slender but sweet and within its limitations capable of fine shading. A varying pressure of the key produced that tremolo which on the violin is calledvibrato, and gave the tone a delicate warmth wholly lacking in the clean-cut, frosty tone of the harpsichord—and, indeed, in the rich tone of the pianoforte.
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[155]The exact date is not known.[156]Both St. Thomas school and church are still In existence. The boys’ choir is one of the finest in Germany and may be heard as in Bach’s time every Sunday of the year, in a motet.[157]This famous letter is printed in full in Spitta’sLife of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is illuminating in regard not only to Bach’s character, but to his family life as well.[158]The clavichord was suitable only for the most intimate sort of music. It differed from the harpsichord in that the tone of it was produced not by a plucking of the strings but by a pressure brought to bear on them by little uprights attached to the key levers. The tone was very slender but sweet and within its limitations capable of fine shading. A varying pressure of the key produced that tremolo which on the violin is calledvibrato, and gave the tone a delicate warmth wholly lacking in the clean-cut, frosty tone of the harpsichord—and, indeed, in the rich tone of the pianoforte.
[155]The exact date is not known.
[155]The exact date is not known.
[156]Both St. Thomas school and church are still In existence. The boys’ choir is one of the finest in Germany and may be heard as in Bach’s time every Sunday of the year, in a motet.
[156]Both St. Thomas school and church are still In existence. The boys’ choir is one of the finest in Germany and may be heard as in Bach’s time every Sunday of the year, in a motet.
[157]This famous letter is printed in full in Spitta’sLife of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is illuminating in regard not only to Bach’s character, but to his family life as well.
[157]This famous letter is printed in full in Spitta’sLife of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is illuminating in regard not only to Bach’s character, but to his family life as well.
[158]The clavichord was suitable only for the most intimate sort of music. It differed from the harpsichord in that the tone of it was produced not by a plucking of the strings but by a pressure brought to bear on them by little uprights attached to the key levers. The tone was very slender but sweet and within its limitations capable of fine shading. A varying pressure of the key produced that tremolo which on the violin is calledvibrato, and gave the tone a delicate warmth wholly lacking in the clean-cut, frosty tone of the harpsichord—and, indeed, in the rich tone of the pianoforte.
[158]The clavichord was suitable only for the most intimate sort of music. It differed from the harpsichord in that the tone of it was produced not by a plucking of the strings but by a pressure brought to bear on them by little uprights attached to the key levers. The tone was very slender but sweet and within its limitations capable of fine shading. A varying pressure of the key produced that tremolo which on the violin is calledvibrato, and gave the tone a delicate warmth wholly lacking in the clean-cut, frosty tone of the harpsichord—and, indeed, in the rich tone of the pianoforte.