SKU: PR.110418390

ISBN 9781491134603. UPC: 680160685158.

Eric Ewazen’s THREE INVENTIONS were inspired by Bach’s Two-part Inventions, yet they sound thoroughly like Ewazen. Composed for harpsichord (with a piano adaptation following later), Ewazen’s inventions maintain a pure “one note per hand” texture until their final chord, with strong-but-free imitative counterpoint between the two voices. While Ewazen may be best known for his wind music, he is a pianist himself, and composers’ works for their own instrument are a direct insight into how they write for their own performances. The piano adaptation of THREE INVENTIONS is also available as a separate publication.
THREE INVENTIONS was written for my dear friend Maria Rojas, who premiered the work on a faculty recital at Juilliard. Maria is both a pianist and a harpsichordist, and I first met her when she gave a demonstration of the harpsichord for the students in my theory classes.I’ve always been captivated by Bach’s series of Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions. With the Two-Part Inventions, I’m amazed how Bach could create such wonderful intricacy and counterpoint with only two voices. I consequently modeled my inventions after the counterpoint of Bach, involving the traditional contrapuntal devices he used: imitation, development, harmonic and modal shifts, fragmentation, and sequence, essentially creating a dialog between two completely equal voices conversing with each other!Bach wrote 15 Two-Part Inventions (as well as 15 Three-Part Inventions, not to mention the 48 preludes and fugues in The Well-Tempered Clavier!), and that’s just the start of his voluminous repertoire for the keyboard! I was happy just to write three!!!Each of my inventions has a distinctive mood. The first is in a relaxed, yet cheerful C Major tonality (as a nod to Bach’s Invention No. 1 in C Major); the second is heartfelt and lyrical; and the third invention (involving a Gigue rhythm in the compound meter of 12/8) is energetic, and full of life and spontaneity. The third is primarily in a minor tonality, resulting in a feeling of drama, bringing the THREE INVENTIONS to an exciting finale.

SKU: FZ.5834

ISBN 9790230658348. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.

These early music methods are in facsimile in two books. Anonyme - Jean-Henry d'ANGLEBERT - Francois COUPERIN (1-2) - Jean-Joseph Cassanea de MONDONVILLE - Michel CORRETTE (1) - Jacques Champion de CHAMBONNIERES - Francois DAGINCOURT - Jean-Francois DANDRIEU - Louis Claude DAQUIN - Jean II DENIS - Francois DIEUPART - Louis-Antoine DORNEL - Antoine FORQUERAY - Antoine FURETIERE - Charles Alexandre JOLLAGE - Nicolas-Antoine LEBEGUE - Jean Leonor LE GALLOIS - Gaspard LE ROUX - Marin MERSENNE - Jean-Philippe RAMEAU (1-2-3) - Pancrace ROYER - Michel de SAINT LAMBERT - Charles Joseph VAN HELMONT. Table of contents: Mersenne Marin: Harmonie universelle - 1636. Denis Jean II: Traite de l'accord de l'espinette - 1650. Chambonnieres Jacques Champion de: Les pieces de clavessin - 1670. Anonyme: Tablature pour le clavecin - s. d. Lebegue Nicolas-Antoine: Les pieces de clavessin - 1677. Le Gallois Jean Leonor: Lettre de Mr Le Gallois - 1680. Anglebert Jean-Henry d': Pieces de clavecin - 1689. Furetiere Antoine: Dictionnaire universel - 1690. Dieupart Francois: Six suittes de clavessin - 1701. Saint-Lambert Michel de: Les principes du clavecin - 1702. Le Roux Gaspard: Pieces de clavessin - 1705. Couperin Francois: Pieces de clavecin - 1713. Couperin Francois: L'art de toucher le clavecin - 1717. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Pieces de clavecin - 1724. Dandrieu Jean-Francois: Livre de pieces de clavecin - 1724. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin - 1728. Dornel Louis Antoine: Pieces de clavecin - 1731. Dagincourt Francois: Pieces de clavecin - 1733. Corrette Michel: Premier livre de pieces de clavecin - 1734. Daquin Louis Claude: 1er livre de pieces de clavecin - 1735. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Pieces de clavecin - 1736. Van Helmont Charles Joseph: Pieces de clavecin - 1737. Jollage Charles Alexandre: Premier livre de pieces de clavecin - 1738. Royer Pancrace: Pieces de clavecin - 1737. Forqueray Antoine: Pieces de viole (. . . ) mises en pieces de clavecin - 1747. Mondonville Jean-Joseph Cassanea de: Pieces de clavecin avec voix ou violon - 1748. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of copies from:- Inguimbertine Library of Carpentras (France). - Municipal Library of Lyon (France). - National Library of Paris (France). - Sainte Genevieve Library of Paris (France). - British Library of London (England). - Municipal Library of Grenoble (France). - Municipal Library of Bordeaux (France). - Gemmente Museum of The Hague (Netherlands). - In Private collection. Anne Fuzeau Classique propose the complete theoretic documentation, methods, classical music scores on the harpsichord.

SKU: HL.48188975

UPC: 888680948825. 9x12 inches. French.

?Richard Siegel won prizes for the Harpsichord and Chamber Music at the Paris Conservatoire before going on the win first prize in the 1977 International Harpsichord Competition. He has since recorded over 30 CDs and his passion for the instrument has been apparent further in his production of Learn to Play the Harpsichord. As stated in the preface, the study of the Harpsichord has long been reserved, frequently dismissed as an 'old-fashioned' instrument. However, a recent rise in the popularity of early music has rekindled interest in it. In Learn to Play the Harpsichord Volume 2 being the second of two helpful volumes to aid student's learning and progression, Siegel enables Harpsichord beginners to learn through repertoire pieces themselves, drawn from the Keyboard masters of the Baroque period. The pupil will be guided towards an understanding of technique and style suited to the Harpsichord. Furthermore, Learn to Play the Harpsichord enables adults who learnt the instrument as a child to return to the instrument and have the instant feeling of ??music making??. andrdquo.

SKU: HL.14012557

Danish.

Per Norgard GEMINI RISING for harpsichord soloFirst there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there isThe title literally Ascending Twins - was borrowed from astrological terminology but refers, purely musically, to two essential circumnstances in the work: A constant duplicity in the melodic basis, as well as an almost constantly ascending tendency. Even when - as is the case in the start - falling figures appear, the combination of several such figures produces an ascending impression. GEMINI RISING was composed for Elisabeth Chojnacka and premiered at a concert in Copenhagen in November 1990.Per Norgard.