> Andrew wrote: My memory is that CPE tells us in his Art of playing that
one should be able to make fine distinctions of loud and soft without
changing registration. Without changing keyboards on the harpsichord. This
isn't an important statement and not revered to often enough.  

Of course it is! We all agree (as discussed in this list not long ago) that
articulation is possibly the single most important expressive device in
harpsichord playing. 

If we go to CPE's first "pianiss.", on page 8 of the 1744 ed., as well a the
same direction on p. 10, the direction applies to a left hand accompaniment
in quavers, and we can achieve the effect by just playing it staccato. 

Unfortunately, the passage marked "pianiss." on page 9 is an "echo" with
slurs, where we would all play the quavers f'-ab'-c" either legato or
non-legato, but certainly not staccato. 

It seems to me that, although publishing for the "cembalo", these effects
were conceived by CPE with the clavichord in mind.

Best
CDV


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