Par FROBERGER / SCHOTT. Second volume of the second tome and fourth book of the Complete Harpsichord Work by Johann Jakob Froberger, this volume is a set of twenty-five pieces for Harpsichord. Edited by Howard Schott, the book has its preface and information in French, English and German. It features eighteen suites numbered from Suite XIII to Suite XXX, as well as seven other works, including three guigues and four other pieces. The works are of medium difficulty and can be played by intermediate players. Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) is a German Baroque composer. He was a famous musician among hispeers and influenced many of them./ Répertoire / Clavecin

Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE / GILBERT. This edition of Harpsichord Music features the three volumes composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau : ; Livre de Piece de clavecin, ; Pieces de Clavessin and ; Nouvelle suite de Pieces de clavecin. The second and third volumes are divided into 2 parts each and the whole book has a total duration of 2 hours and 10 minutes (22 minutes for the first book, 52 and 53 minutes for the following ones). For upper intermediate and above level. Harpsichord Music has a baroque style, as most of the music by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) who was one of the most famous composers of that era. Hereplaced Lully' as the main composer of the Opera./ Répertoire / Clavecin

Par ANGLEBERT D' / GILBERT. Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629-1691) was one of the foremost composers of Keyboard music of his day. Therefore, the collection of his works, Pieces for Harpsichord is essential to all players of early Baroque Keyboard music. D'Anglebert 's Pieces for Harpsichord represents some of the finest achievements of the French Harpsichord school and shows the composer's mastery of counterpoint as well as his ability to experiment with texture to achieve orchestral sonority. Moreover, d'Anglebert 's collection contains a table of ornaments which formed the basis of those of J. S. Bach and other significantcomposers. The first volume of Pieces for Harpsichord comprises four Harpsichord Suites composed by d'Anglebert, each of which consist of the usual dance movements together with transcriptions from Lully's operas. Furthermore, the three unmeasured preludes included in Suites one, two and three are truly remarkable examples of their kind. With a descriptive preface in French, English and German, volume one of d'Anglebert 's Pieces for Harpsichord is a sublime addition to the repertoire of early Baroque Keyboard music./ Recueil / Clavecin

Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 73. Edited by Robert Klakowich.Amateur and professional players with an interest in Baroque repertoire will welcome this generous selection of 25 harpsichord pieces by John Blow (1649-1708). Blow stands as the dominant figure of English harpsichord composition in the late seventeenth century the master of an individual school that merged continental influences into a vigorous native tradition of keyboard writing. There are preludes dances and grounds in this anthology which is selected from Volume 73 of Musica Britannica and also includes advice on ornamentation and a comprehensive editorial note. Along with its companionvolume of 16 organ pieces K43 this collection is an important addition to Stainer & Bell's landmark Early English Keyboard series.

Par SIEGEL RICHARD. VOLUME 1 (5e/6e) (Texte français, anglais, allemand, espagnol) (pour clavecin, ou piano, ou orgue)/ Recueil / Clavecin

Edited by Robert KlakowichThe complete harpsichord music of John Blow is here made available for the first time including eleven doubtful works and incipits of spurious ones. In this collection there are dances such as almands corants minuets sarabands and jiggs as well as extensive ground bass compositions that demonstrate the growth of a distinctive formal and technical idiom for the instrument.First Published 1998. Hardback

Par COUPERIN FRANCOIS / GILBERT. Harpsichord work - Volume 4, LP. 24 by Francois Couperin is the fourth in a series of 4 volumes of suites for Harpsichord. Published in 1930, three years before Couperin 's death, when he was very ill, this volume initially presented some small mistakes and some white pages. It features seven Ordres, from the 20th to the 27th, with a total of 43 pieces. For upper-intermediate players, this volume was edited by Kenneth Gilbert. François Couperin was a very famous French composer who played the Harpsichord, the Organ. Coming from a famous family of musicians, he was nicknamed ; Couperin le Grand ('Couperin the Great')./ Répertoire / Clavecin