An applied grammar for harpsichord sound production: two national schools to understand style in performance

This article focuses on the theory applied to performances practices arising from the diffusion of historical knowledge through the treatises of the time, yet combining special elements, namely: score (Les Bergeries F. Couperin) and musical instruments (French and German harpsichords of the eighteenth century).

applied-grammar; harpsichord; national style in the eighteenth century