Composed by Eric Ewazen. Contemporary. Solo Part. With Standard Notation. Com...(+)
Composed by Eric Ewazen.
Contemporary. Solo Part.
With Standard Notation.
Composed 1980. 32 pages.
Duration 18 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#110-41817. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
Composed by Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989). Edited by Christopher D. Lewis. Music S...(+)
Composed by Lennox
Berkeley (1903-1989).
Edited by Christopher D.
Lewis. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. 16 pages.
Chester Music #CH84810.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14048181).
Chamber Music Harpsichord SKU: PR.110418390 Composed by Eric Ewazen. Full...(+)
Chamber Music Harpsichord
SKU: PR.110418390
Composed by Eric Ewazen.
Full score. 11 pages.
Duration 10 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#110-41839. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(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.
Harpsichord Works Clavecin [Conducteur] - Avancé Soeddeutscher Musikverlag
Volume 2. By Zipoli, Domenico. Edited by Luigi F. Tagliavini. For Piano, Harpsic...(+)
Volume 2. By Zipoli,
Domenico. Edited by Luigi
F. Tagliavini. For Piano,
Harpsichord. Playing
Score (paperbound).
Published by
Soeddeutscher Musikverlag
(German import).
Harpsichord SKU: OT.21125 Composed by Daniel Akiva. 5 short pieces for ha...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
OT.21125
Composed by
Daniel Akiva. 5 short
pieces for
harpsichord/cembalo.
Classical. Score. OR-TAV
Music Publications
#21125. Published by
OR-TAV Music Publications
(OT.21125).
ISBN
9789655051117. 8.27 x
11.69 inches.
The
five short movements for
solo cembalo are brief,
personal prayers that
depict how the subject
manages a range of
feelings and emotions.
The miniatures each
represent a different
emotional state:
reflection, searching,
meditation, agitation,
and resolution. Each is a
small-scale
representation of a
grand, wide-ranging
prayer of
supplication. As a
composer, performer, and
researcher of early
music, writing for
cembalo allows me not
only to express my
special connection to the
instrument and the period
in which it flourished,
but also to present its
contemporary dimensions
as a rich and versatile
instrument. The
piece was composed at the
request of Hagai Yodan,
who performs it with
great skill. Daniel
Akiva is a composer,
performer, and educator
whose performances on
guitar and lute have won
great acclaim. Mr. Akiva
graduated from the Rubin
Academy of Music in
Jerusalem in 1981, where
he studied classical
guitar with Haim Asulin
and composition with Haim
Alexander. In 1987 he
completed his studies at
the Geneva Conservatorium
in Switzerland where he
studied lute with
Jonathon Rubin and
composition with Jean
Ballisa. For many years,
he headed the Music
Department at the WIZO
High School for the Arts
in Haifa, which he
founded in 1986, and
served as the Artistic
Director of the Guitar
Gems Festival from
2006-2019. As part of his
work at WIZO High School,
he has developed a method
for teaching free
improvisation that has
been incorporated into
the music program at the
school. Mr. Akiva has
appeared in concert as a
guitarist and lutist and
given master classes in
Israel, Europe, Russia,
the United States, and
Latin America. Daniel
Akiva’s
compositional output
includes works for solo
instruments, chamber
ensembles, choir, voice
and guitar, piano, and
chamber orchestra. His
works have been recorded
on twelve CDs, the latest
of which, Malchut, was
issued by OR-TAV in
2014. A native of
Haifa whose family has
lived in Israel for over
five hundred years, he
was steeped in the
Sephardic
(Jewish-Spanish)
tradition from his youth.
Much of his compositional
output has been devoted
to a dialogue with the
music of the Sephardic
Jews. Daniel Akiva has
also maintained a
creative dialogue over
many years with the poets
and writers Amnon
Shamash, Rivka Miriam,
and Avner Peretz.
Harpsichord SKU: HL.14020226 Composed by Elizabeth Maconchy. Music Sales ...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
HL.14020226
Composed
by Elizabeth Maconchy.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2002. 16 pages. Chester
Music #CH55112. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14020226).
8.25x11.75x0.077
inches.
A
Harpsichord is a musical
instrument played by
means of a keyboard. It
produces sound by
plucking a string when a
key is pressed. The
instrument was widely
used in Renaissance and
Baroque music. During the
late 18th century,it
gradually disappeared
from the musical scene
with the rise of the
Piano. In the 20th
century, it made a
resurgence, being used in
historically informed
performances of older
music, in new
(contemporary)
compositions, and
inpopular
culture.
This piece
is perfect for anyone who
wants to discover this
unique instrument.
Composed in 1966 by
Elizabeth
Maconchy the upbeat
allegro of
Notebook For
Harpsichord
takesapproximately 8
minutes to
perform.
Harpsichord SKU: HL.14012557 Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales America...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
HL.14012557
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Book Only.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#KP00404. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14012557).
Danish.
Per
Norgard GEMINI RISING for
harpsichord soloFirst
there is a mountain, then
there is no mountain,
then there isThe title
literally Ascending Twins
- was borrowed from
astrological terminology
but refers, purely
musically, to two
essential circumnstances
in the work: A constant
duplicity in the melodic
basis, as well as an
almost constantly
ascending tendency. Even
when - as is the case in
the start - falling
figures appear, the
combination of several
such figures produces an
ascending impression.
GEMINI RISING was
composed for Elisabeth
Chojnacka and premiered
at a concert in
Copenhagen in November
1990.Per Norgard.
Harpsichord SKU: HL.14016902 Harpsichord Part. Composed by Kaija S...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
HL.14016902
Harpsichord Part.
Composed by Kaija
Saariaho. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. 20 pages.
Music Sales #HH00102.
Published by Music Sales
(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).
Harpsichord SKU: HL.14023645 Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales Ameri...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
HL.14023645
Composed
by Michael Nyman. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2000. 56 pages.
Chester Music #CH61496.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14023645).
ISBN 9780711983281.
9.0x12.0x0.162
inches.
These three
solo harpsichord pieces
are a collection of
recent compositions, each
with an individual theme
and idea. The first, The
convertibility of Lute
Strings, was first
performed at the Purcell
Room, London in 1992. The
second, Tango for Tim was
written in memory of a
friend and composer Tim
Souster, which was
composed and first
performed in 1994. The
third piece, Elisabeth
Gets Her Way, is an
extended version of the
cadenza which Elisabeth
Chojnacka persuaded
Michael Nyman to add to
his Harpsichord Concerto,
which includes material
from the first two pieces
in this album.