I don’t know if there is a “tradition” to harpsichord keys being black/white inverted from piano keys, but I can vouch for seeing it in person. In college, I worked for a music store, and the Neupert harpsichords that they sold had the inverted key color pattern.
I didn’t have a clue about those black notes until I saw this video and read Herb’s comment. I googled, and it says that even the pianos, in Mozart’s time, had the keys reversed. Amazing!
The sonata is very interesting. Inviting and joyfully played by both musicians. Scarlatti was so inventive. I guess he had to write all the sonatas, and probably never worried whether someone else would like and play them.
Dr. Jordan Peterson talks about “Price’s Law” in which an exceedingly small group of people are the most creative. He said that not only were there a very few prolific composers, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky, but even among them, a very small percentage of THEIR music got published, and worthy of fame and listening. Price’s Law states that one-half of the productivity will be generated by the square root of the number of people. So, an organization with 900 employees will have half of the productivity come from only 30 people. Despite the arguments of others, it has proven to be true in many fields, including sports.
I don’t know if there is a “tradition” to harpsichord keys being black/white inverted from piano keys, but I can vouch for seeing it in person. In college, I worked for a music store, and the Neupert harpsichords that they sold had the inverted key color pattern.
I didn’t have a clue about those black notes until I saw this video and read Herb’s comment. I googled, and it says that even the pianos, in Mozart’s time, had the keys reversed. Amazing!
The sonata is very interesting. Inviting and joyfully played by both musicians. Scarlatti was so inventive. I guess he had to write all the sonatas, and probably never worried whether someone else would like and play them.
Dr. Jordan Peterson talks about “Price’s Law” in which an exceedingly small group of people are the most creative. He said that not only were there a very few prolific composers, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky, but even among them, a very small percentage of THEIR music got published, and worthy of fame and listening. Price’s Law states that one-half of the productivity will be generated by the square root of the number of people. So, an organization with 900 employees will have half of the productivity come from only 30 people. Despite the arguments of others, it has proven to be true in many fields, including sports.