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clavier
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clavier \Cla"vi*er\ (? F. ?), n. [F., fr. L. clavis key.] (Mus.) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium. Note: Clavier (?) is the German name for a pianoforte.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clavier can refer to: Clavier, Liège , a municipality in Liège, Belgium Christian Clavier , French actor A keyboard instrument ; especially baroque-era instruments such as the harpsichord the clavichord or the fortepiano Clavier , the French word for keyboard ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1708, "keyboard," from French clavier , originally "a key-bearer," from Latin clavis "key" (see slot (n.2)). The French word also is the source of German Klavier , Dutch klavier , Danish klaver , etc. The German word is the direct source of the name of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bank of keys on a musical instrument [syn: piano keyboard , fingerboard ] a stringed instrument that has a keyboard [syn: Klavier ]
Usage examples of clavier.
A clavier on a little raised platform tinkled away, accompanied by flutes and a couple of men sawing away at viols of different sizes.
He sat down at the clavier, and after playing several pieces with the utmost skill he began to sing Neapolitan songs which made us all laugh.
After dinner my son sat down at the clavier and delighted the company by his exquisite playing.
You must hear him on the clavier, and though I am eight years older I shall not be surprised if you pronounce him the better performer.
Symphonies, divertimenti for concerted instruments, string quartets, a clavier trio, airs, a cantata, and other works were all produced at these concerts, and with almost invariable applause.
Latin, together with the ordinary subjects of school education, and in music, the violin, clavier, and singing.
I used to take my little clavier under my arm, and go off to practice undisturbed.
His Fux and his Mattheson had served their turn, and he had now supplemented them by the first six Clavier Sonatas of Philipp Emanuel Bach, the third son of the great composer.
A certain Countess von Thun, whose name is associated with Beethoven, Mozart and Gluck, met with one of his clavier sonatas in manuscript, and expressed a desire to see him.
The young man seats himself at the Clavier, and arpeggiates a few major chords.
In the Musick-Room, he wakes during the Night and mistakes the Clavier for a Coffin, with somebody in it, withal.
I had hopes that our fair lady would move to play the instrument, a kind of clavier, I believe, which stood in the room.
Ethelmer, downstairs, alone, at the Clavier, hair loos'd, apostrophizes a Thermometer, throughout which the Listener may imagine a series of idiotic still-life Views, first of the Thermometer, registering some low temperature, then of Ethelmer, singing to it, then back to the Thermometer again, and so forth.
The list, as given by Pohl, comprises, in addition to the works already named, about thirty symphonies six string trios, a few divertimenti in five parts, a piece for four violins and two 'celli, entitled "Echo," twelve minuets for orchestra, concertos, trios, sonatas and variations for clavier, and, in vocal music, a "Salve Regina" for soprano and alto, two violins and organ.