SKU: ST.Y231

ISBN 9790220221767.

Written for harpsichordist Jane Chapman, and clearly inspired by her virtuosity, Copper Ribbons is a fantasy-movement of throbbing tremolandi and scrunchy arpeggiated chords that both support and intrude upon a recitative-like 'line' of elusive, questioning melody. Exploiting the instruments rich variety of tone colours with a Debussian passion for texture and timbre, the composer here creates a miniature tone-poem, which sustains to its closing bars a sense of mystery and suggestion. The work may stand alone, or as a pair with its companion-piece Silver Threads, which should precede it.

SKU: FG.55011-764-8

ISBN 9790550117648.

The title of Esa Pietilä’s solo harpsichord work Fata morgana (2019) refers to a special weather con-dition, which creates illusory effect of mirage-like fairy castle-like monuments in the horizon of the sea. The piece brings forth the frightening bass sonority on double manual, full size harpsichord and the brightness on the treble and makes a dialogue out of them. “I got fasci-nated by the sonority, character and power of the low register sound on the instrument, es-pecially when used in non-traditional way and found some kind of especially delightful and outlandish cluster-mud and airy glimmering things which seem to play together, the com-poser describes. The challenges of the piece lie in rhythmical ideas, which are surprisingly multi-faceted and in the short, improvised section.

Duration: c. 6’

Esa Pietilän soolo-cembalolle tehdyn sävellyksen otsikko Fata morgana (2019) viittaa erityisen sääil-miön aiheuttamaan illusatoriseen kangastuksen tapaiseen efektiin, joka tuo esiin satulinnojen kaltaisten rakennelmien ilmaantumisen meren horisonttiin. Sävellys tuo esiin cembalon bas-sorekisterin pelottavuuden sekä diskantin kirkkauden ja käy niillä vuoropuhelua. Haltioiduin cembalon alarekisterin erityisestä soinnista, karakteerista ja voimasta, jos sitä käyttää hyvinkin ei-perinteisesti. Löysin myös erityisen hauskasti soivaa klusteri-mutaa ja ilmavaa kimallusta, jotka sointuvat yhteen, Pietilä kuvaa sävellystään. Kappaleen haasteena ovat rytmisesti yllät-tävät ja monitahoiset ideat sekä lyhyt improvisaatiojakso.

SKU: LM.JJ2026

ISBN 9790230820264.

SKU: FZ.5835

ISBN 9790230658355. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.

These early music methods are in facsimile in two books. ANCELET - Antoine BEMETZIEDER (1-2) - Jean-Laurent de BETHISY - Michel CORRETTE (2) - Denis DIDEROT - Jacques DUPHLY (1-2) - Encyclopedie - Encyclopedie methodique - Louis-Joseph le neveu FRANCOEUR - Pierre Claude FOUCQUET (1-2) - Francois-Alexandre-Pierre de GARSAULT - Jean-Benjamin de LABORDE - Philippe MACQUER - Friedrich Wilhelm MARPURG - Jean-Philippe RAMEAU (4) - Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU - Simon SIMON. Table of contents: Corrette Michel: Les amusements du Parnasse - 1749. Foucquet Pierre Claude: Les caracteres de la paix - 1749. Foucquet Pierre Claude: Second livre de pieces de clavecin - 1751. Encyclopedie: Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisonne - 1751/1772. Duphly Jacques: Troisieme livre de pieces de clavecin - 1756. Ancelet: Observations sur la musique - 1757. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Code de musique pratique - 1760. Garsault Francois-Alexandre-Pierre de: Notionnaire - 1761. Simon Simon: Pieces de clavecin - 1761. Bethisy Jean-Laurent de: Exposition de la theorie - 1764. Rousseau Jean-Jacques: Dictionnaire de la musique - 1768. Duphly Jacques: Du doigter - c. 1769. Diderot Denis: Manuscrit autographe - s. d. Bemetzrieder Antoine: Lecons de clavecin - 1771. Francoeur Louis-Joseph le neveu: Diapason general - 1772. Macquer Philippe: Dictionnaire raisonne - 1773. Laborde Jean-Benjamin de: Essai sur la musique - 1780. Bemetzrieder Antoine: Nouvelles lecons de clavecin - 1783. Encyclopedie methodique: Encyclopedie methodique, arts et metiers mecaniques - 1788. Marpurg Friedrich Wilhelm: L'art de toucher le clavecin - c. 1797. 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:- National Library of Paris (France). - Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge (England). - Bayerische Staatsbibliotheck of Munich (Germany). - British Library of London (England). - In Private collection. Anne Fuzeau Classique propose the complete theoretic documentation, methods, classical music scores on the harpsichord.