SKU: OU.9780193868564

ISBN 9780193868564. 12 x 8 inches.

For flute, cello, and piano. This trio is inspired by the last of the Medicis, the remarkable Anna Maria Luisa (1667-1743), who left Italy for Germany for twenty-six years while married to Johann Wilhelm of Saxony. Just one facet of her colourful life influences the composition: each of the three movements reveals her love of nature under cultivation.

SKU: BO.B.3628

This work was composed in 1969 and I had the honor of releasing it in Algorta (Vizcaya) on June 22, 1970. I have played afterwards in several occasions and recorded on CD. It is the first work composed by this author devoted to the flute and opens a long series of her works with this instrument, which have narrowed my collaboration with Maria Luisa Ozaita who I also have a close friendship with.

These pieces are framed in a time in which the composer has reached her creative maturity and her inspiration stands out on its own. These works shape a brief triptych which movements have a characteristic personality and are well contrasted. The first one has a spring-like lyricism with sparkles of irony. The second on presents a meditative melody that consists of sighs that are bounded on the weft of an accompaniment that the flute pinpoints a in the low register. A binary dance of a very rhythmic spirit closes the work to a nice finish.

SKU: HL.50496601

SKU: PR.ZM21750

UPC: 680160650361.

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: M7.KC-3006-50

ISBN 9782848580326.

SKU: UT.OP-1R

ISBN 9790215302990. 7.7 x 10.6 inches.

SKU: BT.ERBA-12895