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: HL.14016902

ISBN 9788759854532. 12.0x8.0x0.438 inches. English.

This is the Harpsichord Part for Kaija Saariaho's Jardin Secret II for Saariaho's 1986 work for Harpsicord and Electronics. This hair raising and spatially aware piece from 1986 also contains detailed performance instructions and tape guides. Also available is a CD and CD-Rom package, with accompaniments and all the patches and files required for a real time performance (KP00291).

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: FG.55011-499-9

ISBN 9790550114999.

Sonata da chiesa III was commissioned by Petteri Pitko, who played the first perfor-mance in Kemionsaaren Musiikkijuhlat in the summer of 2016. The sonata has three movements, each of which has a definite liturgical character and a choral tune as a can-tus firmus. Hence the music can be performed either in a concert or as a part of liturgy.

From the composer's foreword: The first movement, Kyrie, has got an introvert mood. The choral melody is veiled, an indirect part of arpeggiated texture. The Gloria is open, even brilliant: the cantus firmus is worked out to a virtuosic, dance-like texture. The third movement closes the music by means of polyphony and bird singing. Concerning the harpsichord, for me it is essen-tial not to use equal temperament: the possibility to play with pure or almost pure in-tervals is crucial to the sound, having very high and strong overtones.

Duration c. 12'.