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 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.
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.
