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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
clāviatūra f (genitive clāviatūrae); first declension
- (New Latin, music) keyboard
1688, Georg Falck, Idea Boni Cantoris, page 18:Informatoris (utpote cui vel Organi vel Inſtrumenti cujuslibet alterius Claviatura, hujusq́ue Con- & Diſſonantiæ exquiſitiſſimè notæ eſſe debent)- according to this instructor (inasmuch as either the organ or any other instrument with a keyboard might not render the exact dissonances and consonances that are notated)
1715, Thomas Balthasar Janovvka, Clavis ad Musicam in Elucidatione Potissimum Dictionum seu Terminorum Musicorum Consistens, page 284:Quod ſi verò c parvum ſonate putes, uſque ad d ſuperiùs ſupra claviaturæ Organicæ metam ſe extendet.- If indeed you think that C is a small sound, it will extend up to D above the top of the organic keyboard.
1719, Mauritius Vogt, Conclave Thesauri Magnæ Artis Musicæ, page 141:Organiſta debet à teneris ungviculis aſveſieri, qua manu, quô digitô, aut digitorum ordine percurrere debeat claviaturam: […]- The organist must be accustomed to the delicate fingernails, with which hand, with which finger, or with which order of fingers he should traverse the keyboard:
Declension
First-declension noun.