Harpsichord; Early Music SKU: UT.HS-307 Composed by Antonio Valente. Edit...(+)
Harpsichord; Early Music
SKU: UT.HS-307
Composed by Antonio
Valente. Edited by Maria
Luisa Baldassari.
Paperback (Soft Cover).
Classical. Ut Orpheus #HS
307. Published by Ut
Orpheus (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.
Harpsichord SKU: BT.ALHE32440 Composed by Jean-Henri D'Anglebert. Le Pupi...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
BT.ALHE32440
Composed
by Jean-Henri
D'Anglebert. Le Pupitre -
Heugel. Book Only. 108
pages. Heugel & Cie
#ALHE32440. Published by
Heugel & Cie
(BT.ALHE32440).
English.
Jean-He
nri d'Anglebert
(1629-1691) was one of
the foremost composers of
Keyboard music of his
day. Therefore, the
collection of his works,
Pieces for Harpsichord is
essential to all players
of early Baroque Keyboard
music. D'Anglebert's
Pieces for Harpsichord
represents some of the
finest achievements of
the French Harpsichord
school and shows the
composer's mastery of
counterpoint as well as
his ability to experiment
with texture to
achieveorchestral
sonority. Moreover,
d'Anglebert's collection
contains a table of
ornaments which formed
the basis of those of J.
S. Bach and other
significant composers.
The first volume of
Pieces for Harpsichord
comprises fourHarpsichord
Suites composed by
d'Anglebert, each of
which consist of the
usual dance movements
together with
transcriptions from
Lully's operas.
Furthermore, the three
unmeasured preludes
included in Suites one,
two and three aretruly
remarkable examples of
their kind. With a
descriptive preface in
French, English and
German, volume one of
d'Anglebert's Pieces for
Harpsichord is a sublime
addition to the
repertoire of early
Baroque Keyboard
music.
Suites, Partitas, Sonatas. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Edit...(+)
Suites, Partitas,
Sonatas.
Composed by Johann
Sebastian
Bach (1685-1750). Edited
by
Siebe Henstra. Arranged
by
Gustav Leonhardt. This
edition: Urtext edition.
Transcribed for
harpsichord.
Collection. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
Harpsichord (Harpsichord) SKU: HL.51481381 Urtext Edition, Piano Reduc...(+)
Harpsichord (Harpsichord)
SKU: HL.51481381
Urtext Edition, Piano
Reduction. Composed
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Edited by Matan Entin,
Norbert Mü, and
llemann. Henle Music
Folios. Classical.
Softcover. 46 pages. G.
Henle #HN1381. Published
by G. Henle
(HL.51481381).
UPC:
196288019442.
9.25x12.25x0.16
inches.
Johannes
Umbreit (piano
reduction); Michael
Schneidt (fingering) Two
copies needed for
performance It is almost
impossible to tell from
listening to them that
Bach's extremely popular
concerti for harpsichord
were probably his own
transcriptions of solo
concerti which had
originally been composed
for violin or a woodwind
instrument. The outer
movements of the second
concerto, in E major,
probably written around
1738, sparkle with joy,
while the expressive
melodic lines of the
middle movement, the
Siciliano in C-sharp
minor, transport the
listener to the realm of
his Passion music. G.
Henle Publishers presents
this repertoire standard
in an Urtext edition with
an extensive commentary.
The study edition (HN
7381) features the
complete orchestral
score; the piano
reduction (HN 1381)
contains the solo part as
well as a very playable
piano reduction of the
score prepared by
Johannes Umbreit for
practical use.
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