Harpsichord

Entertainment / Music / Harpsichord: Early Baroque keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked by quills instead of being struck with hammers like the piano.
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Clavier

Entertainment / Music / Clavier: Generic word for keyboard instruments, including harpsichord, clavichord, piano and organ. MORE

Toccata

Entertainment / Music / Toccata: Virtuoso composition, generally for organ or harpsichord, in a free and rhapsodic style: in the Baroque, it often served as the introduction to a fugue. MORE

Clavecin

Entertainment / Music / Clavecin: French word for harpsichord. MORE

Clavichord

Entertainment / Music / Clavichord: Stringed keyboard instrument popular in the Renaissance and Baroque that is capable of unique expressive devices not possible on the harpsichord. MORE

Basso Continuo

Entertainment / Music / Basso Continuo: Italian for 'continuous bass'. See figured bass. Also refers to performance group with a bass, chordal instrument (harpsichord, organ), and one bass melody instrument (cello, bassoon). MORE

Registration

Business / Agriculture / Registration: The Environmental Protection Agency approval of a new pesticide for specific uses before it can be sold or distributed in the United States. Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide A MORE