How to Use harpsichord in a Sentence

harpsichord

noun

• On one side was a harpsichord, of the kind that Bach might have played.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• In the third scene, Keys plays the harpsichord in a flooding room while Miguel floats up from the ground.
  — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Sheet music from the time shows notes too high or low to play on the harpsichord.
  — Richard Siken, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Up close, the harpsichord can be a wild, prickly beast.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• Here near the borders of Brazil and Paraguay, harpsichords and lutes can be found in the smallest villages.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 8 May 2018
• Our manager showed up the next day with a harpsichord and this weed called Train Wreck.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 May 2022
• So, maybe just a harpsichord and finger snaps next time.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• The group blends rock, gospel, and even a little harpsichord to create a five-minute journey.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
• Hana has a habit of picking up feathers to give to the village chief, who makes them into quills to pluck at the strings of a harpsichord.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023
• Quite frankly his orchestration and the harpsichord opening was the thing that brought us to the attention of Billboard and the charts.
  — Nick Williams, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2019
• Ogg returned to join Cho at the harpsichord for a four-handed Mozart Sonata that was the most unabashedly fun adventure of the evening.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 2 Aug. 2019
• When many people think of the harpsichord’s signature twinkly rattle, Baroque music is the first thing that comes to mind.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Resting atop the harpsichord is a piece of sheet music known only from this painting.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
• In the single movement for harpsichord alone, in the middle of the sixth sonata, Prutsman’s rough edges brought an unwelcome harshness.
  — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• Instead, Mozart’s score will be played on harpsichord and piano.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
• Stephenson will perform on a handmade replica of a 1720-era harpsichord like one Bach would have played.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 21 Feb. 2018
• At first, it was called a ‘harpsichord with soft and loud,’ thanks to players’ ability to control the volume of each note by varying the force of their finger strokes.
  — Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• Your new album sounds like a classic country record, but with a lot of twists, including a harpsichord.
  — Dallas News, 23 Oct. 2020
• Both aspects of the device are somewhat broken: The harpsichord is battered, and the video is distorted.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
• The Left Banke had such an interesting niche of the ‘60s music, but linked with this wonderful baroque harpsichord.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 24 Mar. 2023
• Van Helden shed the song’s mournful harpsichord riff and transformed it into a four-on-the-floor rave-up -- and the response in nightclubs was immediate.
  — Mitchell Kuga, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2019
• Conductor Robert Tweten had planned to play harpsichord for the production all along, Meeker said.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
• The result is a film that tells the story of 20th-century Czech history and conveys a sense of the harpsichord as a living instrument.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 25 May 2017
• In Rushefsky’s hands the tsimbl can resemble (or sound like) a harpsichord crossed with a vibraphone.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• Remember: In the days of powdered wigs, musicians who liked the pluckiness of the harpsichord complained that the piano sounded soft and dull.
  — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2022
• Another classic Paul bassline, this time over a shuffling beat with harpsichord and other twangy sounds.
  — Eliot Van Buskirk, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2008
• The harpsichord had been supplanted by the new piano, which itself was evolving almost as fast as present-day smartphones.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2020
• But the music, with strings and harpsichord over a clip-clop beat, defies classification even now.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2021
• Nichloson's words and melodies became more complex and layered with the help of Hirabayashi's orchestrations — and harpsichord.
  — Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
• The backward effects, including a guitar solo, and the swirling harpsichord sound over the cool relentless drone.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2019

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024