SKU: OT.21125

ISBN 9789655051117. 8.27 x 11.69 inches.

The five short movements for solo cembalo are brief, personal prayers that depict how the subject manages a range of feelings and emotions. The miniatures each represent a different emotional state: reflection, searching, meditation, agitation, and resolution. Each is a small-scale representation of a grand, wide-ranging prayer of supplication.
As a composer, performer, and researcher of early music, writing for cembalo allows me not only to express my special connection to the instrument and the period in which it flourished, but also to present its contemporary dimensions as a rich and versatile instrument.
The piece was composed at the request of Hagai Yodan, who performs it with great skill.
Daniel Akiva is a composer, performer, and educator whose performances on guitar and lute have won great acclaim. Mr. Akiva graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1981, where he studied classical guitar with Haim Asulin and composition with Haim Alexander. In 1987 he completed his studies at the Geneva Conservatorium in Switzerland where he studied lute with Jonathon Rubin and composition with Jean Ballisa. For many years, he headed the Music Department at the WIZO High School for the Arts in Haifa, which he founded in 1986, and served as the Artistic Director of the Guitar Gems Festival from 2006-2019. As part of his work at WIZO High School, he has developed a method for teaching free improvisation that has been incorporated into the music program at the school.
Mr. Akiva has appeared in concert as a guitarist and lutist and given master classes in Israel, Europe, Russia, the United States, and Latin America. Daniel Akiva’s compositional output includes works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir, voice and guitar, piano, and chamber orchestra. His works have been recorded on twelve CDs, the latest of which, Malchut, was issued by OR-TAV in 2014.
A native of Haifa whose family has lived in Israel for over five hundred years, he was steeped in the Sephardic (Jewish-Spanish) tradition from his youth. Much of his compositional output has been devoted to a dialogue with the music of the Sephardic Jews. Daniel Akiva has also maintained a creative dialogue over many years with the poets and writers Amnon Shamash, Rivka Miriam, and Avner Peretz.

SKU: 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.

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.