1. Concept
Keyboard music in the broadest sense means any music that is played on a keyboard instrument or in the playing of which a keyboard instrument is involved. The word “keyboard” is first attested in the early 19th century; the earlier “clavier,” borrowed from French (like the German Klavier), derives from the Latin clavis (“key”), which from the Middle Ages denoted the (sounding) note and, from the 13t…