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clavier

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Editorial note

This article discusses the release of the Open Well-Tempered Clavier from the point of view of an open-source, free-software ethos.

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Quick take

(music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for clavier.

Example sentences

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This article discusses the release of the Open Well-Tempered Clavier from the point of view of an open-source, free-software ethos.

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I will especially vouch for Andras Schiff's recent recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier as an alternative choice.

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Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier was a musical dossier celebrating modern tuning (of keyboards).

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Bach's Well Tempered Clavier is even named after a recent technological improvement.

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I've convinced a few people who were fans of rock guitarists like Blackmore, Malmsteen, Rhoads and EVH to listen to teh Prelude #2 in Well tempered Clavier and describe the commonality.

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That's what the Open Well-Tempered Clavier provides!

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The well-tempered clavier is good coding music.

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In that context, it's a huge win for libre software to have MuseScore running strong, with the best release ever, and other recent milestones like the completion of the Open Well-Tempered Clavier project.

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Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1), and we're placing them in the public domain for everyone to download, own, share, and use, without any limitations.

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In the videos, high-profile mentoring features investors like Brad Feld from Foundry, Rob Hayes from First Round Capital, Howard Lindzon, Jeff Clavier from SoftTech VC and Dave McClure from Founder's Fund/fbFund (awesome blog btw!).

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On one point in the article: I remember Jeff Clavier (also French, now in the Valley) telling at an event that when mentoring French and EU startups coming to the US, the slide he tells them to always out is the exit strategy slide:) Not for secrecy, but because it's silly to include in your startup's vision.

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When I listen to his more abstract works -- the keyboard partitas, the violin partitas, the well-tempered clavier, the english and french suites, goldberg, the art of the fugue, a musical offering, inventions and sinfonias -- I become so totally absorbed that I just cannot do anything else or even think any other thoughts.

Quote examples

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Totally OT, but in French the word "clavier" means "keyboard", so I thought it was about a new kind of keyboard been released.

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- The frontispiece of the "well tempered clavier" has led some to speculate that in it Bach has encoded his method of tuning.

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- Bach's "well tempered clavier"!= equal temperament.

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So, anyone reading this: If you listen to Gould playing (say) the Well-Tempered Clavier or the Goldberg Variations and find it too mannered or mechanical or can't get past his humming, try Schiff or Richter or Perahia or someone more "mainstream".

Proper noun examples

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The Associate ain't the one sending an e-mail to Clavier.

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Also, I can't wait for The Well-Tempered Clavier's Prelude I (C Major).

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We're an edtech startup with funding some of the biggest names in the valley (Jeff Clavier, Ron Conway, General Catalyst, Mitch Kapor...), and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use clavier in a sentence?

This article discusses the release of the Open Well-Tempered Clavier from the point of view of an open-source, free-software ethos.

What does clavier mean?

(music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

What part of speech is clavier?

clavier is commonly used as noun.