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TANGENTS, the Bulletin of the Boston Clavichord Society

TANGENTS, the Bulletin of the Boston Clavichord Society is published biannually in the spring and in the fall, and is sent free to Friends of the Boston Clavichord Society. Single copies and back issues ($4 each) can be obtained by writing to The Boston Clavichord Society, P.O. Box 540515, Waltham MA, 02454. Contributions are welcome; please contact the editor at the address below.

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Number 24, Spring, 2008

Keyboard Study in Amsterdam
Yi-heng Yang

Figured Bass Arpeggi in the Fantasias of C.P.E. Bach
Beverly Woodward

BCS Fall Recitals
Peter Sykes

vanDelft & Root in Concert

Ergonomics of the Keyboard, Part Two
Renée Geoffrion

Magnano Announcement

Troeger on Early Clavichords

Number 23, Fall, 2007

Ergonomics of the keyboard
Renée Geoffrion

Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance
Reviewed by Peter Sykes

Joan Benson Visits Indiana University
Wendy Gillespie

The BCS at the Boston Early Music Festival 2007
Reports by Sylvia Berry and Alan Durfee

The Restoration of a Swedish Fretted Clavichord
Tim Hamilton

Number 22, Spring, 2007

The Harpsichord vs. the Clavichord
Historical and Polemical Perspectives
Erwin Bodky

Autograph Manuscript by Froberger Emerges, Only to Disappear Again
David Schulenberg

C.P.E. Bach: New Keyboard Volumes Published
Paulette Grundeen

The Clavichord at Eastman
Ulrika Davidsson

Alexander-Max Recital
Peter Sykes

Yearsley Joined by Sykes in Spring Clavichord Recital
David Schulenberg

Sykes & Irwin-Brandon at BCS BEMF 2007

BCS Clavichord Day, January 20, 2007
Paul Rabin

BCS 2007-2008 Season

VII International Clavichord Symposium

Number 21, Fall, 2006

Haydn and the Clavichord
David Breitman

Earliest Clavichord Piece Performed
David Schulenberg

Spring 2006 BCS Recitals
Peter Sykes

Symposium on the Clavichord, Edinburgh, 2006
David Breitman

Clavichord Labeled M. J. Schramm, München
Tim Hamilton

The Clavichord at Oberlin

René Geoffrion Residency

Number 20, Spring, 2006

C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Works
David Schulenberg

An Interview with Lothar Bemmann
Beverly Woodward

Fleischman & Sykes Present Benefit Recital

Renée Geoffrion in Recital at First Church, Cambridge
Peter Sykes

Andrus Madsen at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge
David Schulenberg

Troeger Recording of The Art of Fugue

Turnabout is Fair Play or Repertoire Theft for Fun and Profit, Part 2
Peter Tracton

Magnano Events

Number 19, Fall, 2005

Howard Schott (1923 - 2005)
Peter Sykes

The Clavichord in the Education of a Keyboardist
Renée Geoffrion

The Clavichord as the Key to All Other Keyboard Instruments (II)
Bernard Brauchli

Clavichord Symposium at the 2005 Boston Early Music Festival
David Schulenberg

Turnabout is Fair Play or Repertoire Theft for Fun and Profit
Peter Tracton

Tannenberg Clavichord Symposium

Fortino Plays at BEMF
Peter Sykes

Two Duos at BEMF
Alan Durfee

Lebedinsky and Sansom in Recital
Peter Sykes

Website Additions

Number 18, Spring, 2005

The Clavichord as the Key to All Other Keyboards
Bernard Brauchli

A Tannenberg Clavichord Identified
Laurence Libin

A Very Small Dolmetsch
Tim Hamilton

The BCS at BEMF, 2005

A Publishing Project by Sally Fortino

Irwin-Brandon & Sykes Present Benefit Recital

Schulenberg and Oleskiewicz in a Duo Recital
Peter Sykes

Andrus Madsen at Spring House
Peter Sykes

Number 17, Fall, 2004

The British Clavichord Society Awards for Clavichord Composition, 2004
Peter Bavington

Postscript: The American Competitors
Beverly Woodward

The Electro-Acoustic Clavichord
Renée Geoffrion

Teaching the Clavichord to a Child
Paul Simmonds

Revisiting the 1928 Art of Recording the Clavichord: Comparisons and Comment
Dick Wahlberg and friends

Audley Green Introduces Three Composers
Beverly Woodward

Number 16, Spring, 2004

An Interview with Maximilian Fleischman
Beverly Woodward

Trusting the Horse's Mouth
Gregory Crowell

On Teaching the Clavichord to Children
Peter Sykes

Teaching Children in Finland
Pekka Vapaavuori

Number 15, Fall 2003

A Seventeenth Century Clavichord-Song by Johann Krieger
Sally Fortino

The BCS Presence at BEMF

Recital reports: Spányi, Lebedinsky, Oleskiewicz-Schulenberg

Number 14, Spring 2003

A guide to clavichord kits.

The BCS at BEMF, 2003
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Dellal & Sykes perform songs by C.P.E. Bach.

Number 13, Fall 2002

The Fate of a Virtuoso: a Clavichord-Song by
Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth
Sally Fortino

Sally Fortino at the Shirley-Eustis House
Richard Troeger

Comments on Kirkpatrick
Howard Schott; David Schulenberg; Miklós Spányi
Sally Fortino; Peter Sykes; Richard Troeger

Clavichord kit building
Sherwin Goldman


Number 12, Spring 2002

An Interview with Paul Irvin, Part II

An Introduction to D.G. Türk
Sally Fortino

Igor Kipnis 1931-2002
Richard Troeger

A Look at Owner-Built Clavichords in Finland
Johan Förnäs

Announcement: The Hubert Clavichord Data Book


Number 11, Fall 2001

Clavichord Day at the Boston Early Music Festival
Paulette Grundeen

The Songs of C.P.E. Bach
William H. Youngren

An Interview with Paul Irvin

A Musical Tourist in London
Alan Durfee


Number 10, Spring 2001

The 2001 Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition
Beverly Woodward

From the President
Richard Troeger

Pedal Clavichord Day
Peter Sykes

An Important New Museum Catalogue
Richard Troeger

Clavichord Celebration in Finland
Richard Troeger

Interview with Pekka Vapaavuori


Number 9, Winter 2000

Clavichord Weekend at Brandeis
Paulette Grundeen

Keyboard Lessons with Arnold Dolmetsch
Elizabeth Goble

The Eye of the Historical Needle
Richard Troeger

Concert by Steve Barrell
Richard Troeger

A Conversation with Steven Barrell


Number 8, Spring 2000

The BCS at NEPTA

In Review [J.S. Bach, Six Partitas]
Howard Schott

The BCS at NEC
Peter Sykes

Maintenance Report, II
Allan Winkler


Number 7, Fall 1999

An Interview with Clavichordist Joan Benson

Lord Berners
Paul Monsky


Number 6, Summer 1999

Report from Edinburgh
Alan Durfee

Maintenance Report, I
Allan Winkler

Two Recent Clavichord Recordings [Bach on the Pedal Clavichord, reviewed by Richard Troeger; J.S. Bach, Inventions and Sinfonias, Duets, reviewed by Susan Brauchli]

C.P.E. Bach conference at Cornell University
Carol lei Breckenridge


Number 5, Fall 1998

Playing Mozart on the Clavichord, Part II
Richard Troeger

Report on the clavichord workshop at Magnano
Emi Saeki

Three recent clavichord recordings [C.P.E. Bach, 5 Flute Sonatas;
Pekka Vapaavouri plays clavichords built by himself; C.P.E. Bach,
The Solo Keyboard Music I]
Susan Brauchli

An Interview with Mark Kroll


Number 4, Spring 1998

Playing Mozart on the Clavichord, Part I
Richard Troeger

Clavichords in America: Johann Christoph Georg Schiedmayer,
1796, in the collection of the Musem of Fine Arts, Boston
Allan Winkler

John Barnes: 1928-1998
Grant O'Brien


Number 3, Fall 1997

Capturing the Gerstenberg "1982": Recollections of the
Pedal Clavichord for Chico State University
Jack Peters

Teacher's Corner
Peter Sykes

Report on the Boston Early Music Festival
Adam Rahbee

Report on the Third International Clavichord Meeting, Magnano, 1997
Alan Durfee

CD Review: Paul Simmond's recording of Wolf's sonatas
Susan Brauchli

New music: Franz Seydelmann's keyboard works
Susan Brauchli


Number 2, Spring 1997

Reconstructing Silbermann's Cembal d'Amour
Lyndon Taylor

Hugh Gough, In Memoriam
John Koster

House Music: The Beginning to the Mid-Seventeenth Century
Alan Durfee

Clavichord Day at Mount Holyoke College
Alan Durfee


Number 1, Fall 1996

A Letter from the President
Alan Durfee

Clavichord Day at Brandeis
Adam Rahbee

Some Thoughts on Clavichord Repertory
Richard Troeger

Teacher's Corner
Peter Sykes

House music: C.P.E. Bach
Alan Durfee

The International Centre for Clavichord Studies at Magnano
Beverly Woodward


Number 0, Spring 1996

Letter from the President
Alan Durfee

Report on the second international clavichord conference, Magnano, 1995
Alan Durfee, Joel Speerstra and Beverly Woodward

A Collection of Reprints

For the Newcomer: Selecting a Clavichord
Richard Troeger

An Interview with Karin Richter
Koen Vermeij

Performance Practice from 18th C. Sources
Paul Simmonds

Clavichords in Britain, No. 1
Peter Bavington

Review of the Proceedings of the Magnano Conference 1993
Peter Bavington


Editor : Beverly Woodward, P.O. Box 540515, Waltham MA 02454; tel/fax (781) 891-0814
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