dalem (August 10, 2008 at 8:46 pm)

F#, I believe.

Mistermagoo77 (April 17, 2008 at 6:41 pm)

Beautifully played my friend!

voidforpurpose (December 10, 2007 at 4:48 pm)

It seemed to "Moo!" right on key! (B flat?)

joshisaac (August 17, 2007 at 8:38 am)

love the COW!

3NUNS (July 25, 2007 at 12:41 pm)

lovely

Bachzart (June 23, 2007 at 6:54 am)

The cow was the best part. Beautiful piece with good emotion accompanied by an excellent interpretation. Bravo. But I still stand by the cow, the cow ROCKS!!!

Gambissimo (May 22, 2007 at 10:32 pm)

I like the cow in the beginning.

shuianzhao (May 13, 2007 at 9:18 am)

great!

naslam74 (April 27, 2007 at 6:13 pm)

Now if you were playing something in a fast tempo there is less of a need for agogic accents, and you can play in a more direct tempo and straighter as you would on a piano. Even though in Baroque music especially French Baroque, there is more freedom with the rhythm, like successive 8th or 16th notes, they can be "swung" almost like a loose dotted rhythm, erring more like triplets.

naslam74 (April 27, 2007 at 6:13 pm)

Dalem. What you see here is 18th century performance practice. Playing with "rubato" as you say is actually agogic accenting. Since the Harpsichord does not have a sustain pedal and the strings stop vibrating much faster than on a piano, you have to "spread" the notes, especially in a slow tempo. That means holding certain notes longer, and articulating depending on what is happening musically. If you try to play straight like you would normally on a Piano it would sound like crap.