SKU: FG.55011-071-7

ISBN 9790550110717.

Completed in Karstula, Finland during late July 2010, this carefully structured, but also free-ranging work is drawn from ideas for a much earlier work in four movements, Fantasy dating from the 1980s.
Kai Nieminen has been for a long time an admirer of the work of artist Paul Klee (1879-1940), and the solo presented in its final form here is influenced by the painting Dances caused by Fear or as it is often refered to Dancing from Fear painted towards the end of Klee's life in Bern, 1938.
Having left Germany for Switzerland in December 1933, Klee's later works were often full of signs and lines, very often represented in black, depicting human figures or various objects against a variety of coloured backgrounds, in the case of this painting of a brownish hue. This development in his painting style and technique is felt by some to be an effect perhaps of his long-term illness, systemic sclerosis, but in the case of Dances caused by Fear there is suggested an atmosphere of panic and terror, an attempt to escape from horrors to come (World War II), represented in the violent movement of the arms and legs of the figures, and the dark, indeed brooding nature of the colours.
In Kai Nieminen's guitar work Images of Fear, there is only a very brief passage of calm at the very beginning, after which come three main connected sections in which a wide range of musically unsettling ideas emerge one by one, making use of the tritone, minor seconds, glissandos, tamboura, campanella, etc. The third and final section incorporates the grouping of 5 sixteenth-notes, to give an uneasy feeling to the music, with a short haunting and pleading five-note phrase (Cantando) heard immediately following this passage, before the work ends with further glissandos, and distant and diminishing harmonics.
As with Kai Nieminen's other guitar works, the use of 'orchestral colour' is vital to the performance, and passages suggestive of for example brass, strings, woodwind, etc., should be taken into account and played with suitably considered contrast of tone.

John Mills.

SKU: AY.GD3208PM

ISBN 9790543574656.

How to work with quartertones in a context where the main characteristic is the timbre? I decide to take advantage of the symmetry offered by the guitar duo to change the tuning slightly. In this way, one of the guitars tunes strings 1, 3, and 5 a quartertone lower. The other guitar tunes strings 2, 4, and 6 down a quartertone. Through this, all the notes are possible between the two guitars. However, this system of tuning forces me to write with exact precision, because the notes that can be made on string 1, for example, can't be made on string 2. This system creates a complicated notation, but it is imperative to created the sonority desired in this work.

SKU: HL.364028

UPC: 888506050046. 14.75x7.0x2.75 inches.

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SKU: FZ.6222

ISBN 9790230662222. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.

These early music methods are in facsimile in six books. Volume 1: Anonyme - BARTOLOTTI A. M. - BOYVIN J. - BUTERNE J-B. - CARRE A. Sieur de La Grange - CHARPENTIER M-A. - CHAUMONT L. - D'ANGLEBERT J-H. - DE LA BARRE M. - DELAIR D. - FLEURY N. - MARAIS M. - NIVERS G. G. - PERRINE - SAINT-LAMBERT M. de. Volume 2: CAMPION F. - CAMPION T. - CHERON A. - CLERAMBAULT N. - COUPERIN F. - DANDRIEU J-F. - DELAIR D. - LECLAIR J. -M. - RAMEAU J. -P. Volume 3: Anonyme - CAMPION F. - DORNEL A. - FORQUERAY A. - GERVAIS L. - GOUDAT - GUILLEMAIN L. -G. - MONNIER Le Cadet - MONTECLAIR M. P. de - PINGRE A-G. - RAMEAU J. -P. - SERRE DE RIEUX J. - TELEMANN G. P. - TRAVENOL L. A. Volume 4: ALEMBERT J. Le Rond d' - BLAINVILLE C. H. de - CORRETTE M. - DUBUGRARRE - GEMINIANI F S. - LAPORTE C. de. Volume 5: BETHISY J-L. de - BIFERI F. (fils) - CLEMENT C-F. - DUBREUIL J-J. - GARNIER H. - GIANOTTI P. - GOUGELET Madame - LABBET A. J. - LE BOEUF - RAMEAU J. -P. - ROUSSIER P-J. - SIMON S. - TAPRAY J. Volume 6: Anonyme - BEMETZRIEDER A. - CORRETTE M. - FROESTLER B. - GOURNAY B. C. - LANGLE H-F-M. - RODOLPHE J-J. - ROUSSIER P-J. Table of contents: Volume 1: Fleury Nicolas: Methode pour apprendre facilement - 1660. Bartolotti Angelo Michele: Table pour apprendre facilement - 1669. Carre Antoine: Livre de Guitarre Contenant Plusieurs pieces - 1671. Perrine: Livre de Musique pour le Lut - 1680. Anonyme: Petites Reigles Generalles qui peuvent servir de methode - 1680. Nivers Guillaume Gabriel: Motets a voix seule - 1689. D'Anglebert Jean Henry: Pieces de clavecin - 1689. Marais Marin: Basse-continues des pieces a une et a deux Violes - 1689. Anonyme: (traite abrege d'accompagnement) - c. 1690. Anonyme: Regles pour l'Accompagnement - 1690. Delair Denis: Traite d'accompagnement pour le theorbe - 1690. Charpentier Marc Antoine: Abrege des regles de l'accompagnement - c. 1692. Chaumont Lambert: Pieces D'orgue sur les 8 tons - 1695. Buterne Jean-Baptiste: Petites Reigles pour l'accompagnement - 1700. Boyvin Jacques: Second livre d'orgue - 1700. Anonyme: Traite d'accompagnement du Clavecin - c. 1700. De La Barre Michel: Premier livre de pieces pour la flute - 1702. Saint-Lambert Michel de: Nouveau Traite de l'accompagnement - 1707. Volume 2: Couperin Francois: Regles pour l'accompagnement - s. d. Campion Thomas: Traite d'accompagnement et de composition - 1716. Clerambault Nicolas: Regles d'accompagnement - 1716. Clerambault Nicolas: Principes d'accompagnement - 1716. Dandrieu Jean Francois: Principes de l'accompagnement - 1719. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Traite de l'harmonie - 1722. Delair Denis: Nouveau traite d'accompagnement - 1724. Leclair Jean-Marie: Premier livre de sonates - 1723. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Nouveau systeme de musique theorique - 1726. Cheron Andre: Sonates en trio - 1727. Campion Francois: Lettre du sieur Campion a un philosophe - 1729. Campion Thomas: Addition au traite d'accompagnement - 1730. Volume 3: Pingre Alexandre Gui: Traite de l'harmonie - s. d. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Observations sur la Methode d'Accompagnement - 1730. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Plan abrege d'une Methode nouvelle - 1730. Monteclair Michel Pignolet de: Reponse du second Musicien au premier - 1729. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Replique du premier Musicien a la reponse du second - 1730. Monteclair Michel Pignolet de: Reponse du second Musicien au premier Musicien - 1730. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Replique du premier Musicien a l'ecrit du second - 1730. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Dissertation sur les differentes metodes - 1732. Gervais Laurent: Methode pour l'accompagnement - 1733. Campion Francois: Second recueil d'airs - 1734. Serre de Rieux Jean: Les dons des Enfans de Latone - 1734. Telemann Georg Philipp: Nouveaux Quatuors en six Suites - 1738. Goudat: Principes de Laccompagnement - 1738. Travenol Louis Antoine: Premier livre de Sonates a violon seul - 1739. Guillemain Louis Gabriel: Six sonates en quatuors - 1743. Monnier le Cadet: L'art de Toucher le Clavecin dans son propre caractere - c. 1745. Dornel Antoine: le Tour du Clavier - 1745. Forqueray Antoine: Pieces de Viole avec la Basse Continue - 1747. Anonyme: (Methode d'accompagnement) - s. d. Volume 4: Alembert Jean Le Rond d': Elemens de musique - 1752. Blainville Charles Henri de: Essay sur un troisieme mode - 1751. Corrette Michel: Le maitre de Clavecin - 1753. Laporte Claude de: Traite theorique et pratique - 1753. Geminiani Francesco Saverio: L'art de bien accompagner - 1754. Dubugrarre: Methode plus courte et plus facile - 1754. Volume 5: Tapray Jean: Abrege de l'accompagnement - 1755. Labbet Antoine Joseph et Leris Antoine de: Sentiment d'un Harmoniphile - 1756. Clement Charles Francois: Essai sur l'accompagnement - 1758. Gianotti Pietro: Le guide du compositeur - 1759. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Code de musique pratique - 1760. Bethisy Jean-Laurent de: Exposition de la theorie et de la pratique - 1764. Roussier Pierre-Joseph: Traite des accords et de leur succession - 1764. Le Boeuf: Traite d'harmonie et regles d'accompagnement - 1766. Garnier Honore: Nouvelle methode pour l'accompagnement - 1767. Dubreuil Jean-Jacques: Manuel harmonique - 1767. Biferi Francesco Fils: Traite de musique abrege, divise en trois parties - 1770. Simon Simon: Theorie pratique d'accompagnement - s. d. Gougelet Madame: Methode ou abrege des regles - 1771. Volume 6: Roussier Pierre-Joseph: L'harmonie pratique - 1775. Corrette Michel: Prototipes contenant des lecons d'accompagnement - 1775. Anonyme: Abrege des regles de composition - 1777. Bemetzrieder Antoine: Nouvelles lecons de clavecin ou instructions generales - 1782. Rodolphe Jean-Joseph: Theorie d'accompagnement - c. 1785. Gournay B. C. : Lettre a M. l'abbe Roussier - 1785. Langle Honore-Francois-Marie: Traite de la basse sous le chant - 1797. Froestler B. : Traite d'harmonie et de modulation - 1800. Anonyme: Principes de l'accompagnement - s. d. Anonyme: Regles d'accompagnement - s. d. 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. Facsimiles of copies from: - Conservatory Library of Geneva (Switzerland). - Conservatory Library of Dijon (France). - Royal Conservatory of Liege (Belgique). - Municipal Library of Bordeaux (France). - Municipal Library of Grenoble (France). - Municipal Library of Lyon (France). - National Library of Paris (France). - Royal Library of Brussels (Belgium). - Sainte-Genevieve Library of Paris (France). - British Library of London (England). - Nederlands Muziek Instituut of The Hague (Netherlands). - Yale University, Music Library of New Haven (USA). - Zentralbibliothek of Zurich (Switzerland). 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SKU: HL.1226166

UPC: 663961015584. 16.0x22.0x16.0 inches.

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