Harpsichord

SKU: HL.48187911

Composed by Jacques Duphly. Leduc. Classical. Softcover. 122 pages. Heugel & Cie #HE31812. Published by Heugel & Cie (HL.48187911).

UPC: 888680907433. 0.33 inches. French.

This first volume of Harpsichord Work by Jacques Duphly is the first of a series of two which includes the two parts of Volume 1. Featuring 19 pieces, this work for Harpsichord was reviewed and edited by Francoise Petit. With a preface in French, English and German that sets the context of the work and presents the composer, this first book offers a set of pieces for intermediate players. With simple rhythms, it includes few accidental alterations and some arpeggios. Jacques Duphly (1715-1789) was a French organist who was living during the period of Jean-Jacques Rousseau..

Harpsichord; Early Music

SKU: UT.HS-307

Composed by Antonio Valente. Edited by Maria Luisa Baldassari. Paperback (Soft Cover). Classical. Ut Orpheus #HS 307. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.HS-307).

ISBN 9790215327146. 9 x 12 inches.

Antonio Valente blind, Neapolitan since a long time according to the list of Neapolitan musicians by Scipione Cerreto and organist in S. Angelo a Nilo in Naples, is known in modern times for his two volumes of keyboard music: Versi spirituali published in 1580 and, some years before, the volume here in transcription, Intavolatura de cimbalo, printed by Giuseppe Cacchio in 1576.
This volume has many original features: first keyboard tablature ever printed in Naples, itâ??s not written in musical characters but in a number-based system never met, according to the current studies, in any other print or manuscript both in and outside Italy. The dedication letter, written by Fraâ?? Alberto Mazza, praises Valente as the inventor of this writing method, so easy and effective that everybody, even uncouth youths that did not know music and keyboard, could attain the result of playing from it in two months.
The Intavolatura presents different genres of music: a fantasia, six ricercatas, a Salve Regina on a cantus firmus, four vocal chansons intabulated for keyboard with more or less diminutions,and nine dances, variations and dance/variations on long-living tenors like Romanesca or Zefiro. There are no liturgical compositions, both because unsuitable in a collection for amateurs and because Valente will publish a new book of sacred music in a few years.
The book is a sort of compendium of the keyboard genres of the period, similar to some older Spanish publications and to the later Neapolitan ones by Trabaci and Majone. Other contemporary volumes on the contrary choose to present a single type of composition: this is the case of the Versetti by Valente and the Ricercate by Rocco Rodio.