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: FG.55011-499-9 Composed by Jyrki Linjama. Fennica Gehrma...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
FG.55011-499-9
Composed by Jyrki
Linjama. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-499-9. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-499-9).
ISBN
9790550114999.
Sona
ta da chiesa III was
commissioned by Petteri
Pitko, who played the
first perfor-mance in
Kemionsaaren
Musiikkijuhlat in the
summer of 2016. The
sonata has three
movements, each of which
has a definite liturgical
character and a choral
tune as a can-tus firmus.
Hence the music can be
performed either in a
concert or as a part of
liturgy.
From
the composer's foreword:
The first movement,
Kyrie, has got an
introvert mood. The
choral melody is veiled,
an indirect part of
arpeggiated texture. The
Gloria is open, even
brilliant: the cantus
firmus is worked out to a
virtuosic, dance-like
texture. The third
movement closes the music
by means of polyphony and
bird singing. Concerning
the harpsichord, for me
it is essen-tial not to
use equal temperament:
the possibility to play
with pure or almost pure
in-tervals is crucial to
the sound, having very
high and strong
overtones.
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.
Composed by
Rhian Samuel. Octavo.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#Y231. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.Y231).
ISBN
9790220221767.
Writ
ten 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.