Scarlatti Domenico - First Book For Pianists - Piano

SKU: BT.ALHE32645

French.

Italian composer, Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is well-known for his Keyboard compositions. His 555 Keyboard Sonatas remain ever popular to this day, and it is for this reason that this first volume is indispensable toperformers of the genre. Originally composed for the Harpsichord, Organ or early Pianoforte, the Sonatas display the riveting use of discords and unconventional modulations to remote keys. It is also thought that much ofScarlatti's Keyboard music contains influences of Iberian music, considering that he spent much of his working life in the service of the Spanish and Portuguese royal families. This first volume, comprising Sonatas 1-52, includesthe popular and recognised Sonatas in D minor (K. 9), E major (K. 20) and B minor (K. 27). Bearing in mind that Domenico Scarlatti was a highly competent and popular Keyboard player in his day, so much so that he was employed inthe service of two royal families, his Sonatas are composed with much experience, understanding and expertise, creating an essential addition to the repertoire of all Keyboard players of the Baroque genre.

SKU: HL.1447614

ISBN 9781574244212. UPC: 196288207351. 8.5x11.0x0.341 inches.

Get ready to develop your performance skills and musicianship, and take your playing to the next level with Solos and Duets for Classical Guitar! This book has a little something for every guitarist, but mainly, it is an opportunity for creative musicians to take their guitar skills to the next level. If you are new to classical guitar, you will find manageable, memorable classics as well as new arrangements of modern masters. If you are an experienced guitarist, you will find many works to challenge your technical performance and reading abilities. If you need additional help of tablature and/or audio recordings, these are available to you for every piece. On these pages, you will find music by master educators and musicians, including J.S. Bach, Béla Bartok, Domenico Cimarosa, Hamza El Din, George Heussenstamm, William Allaudin Mathieu, Nelson Montalvo, W.A. Mozart, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Robert Schumann. Many of the included selections are transcriptions from works for toher new instruments and some are original guitar works that now appear in print for the very first time! You will find many beautiful solos and duets, and even some guitar quartet exercises to lead you into ensemble playing.

SKU: BA.BVK02137

ISBN 9783761821374. 24.5 x 17.5 cm inches. Text Language: Italian.

One of the major institutions of sacred music, the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter's Basilica, can look back on a five-hundred-year history. Now Giancarlo Rostirolla brings this turbulent and spellbinding history to life using original documents from the Papal Library and the chapter archives of Saint Peter in the Vatican.

The Cappella Giulia was founded by Pope Julius II in 1513. Its chapel masters were the most important representatives of Roman vocal polyphony, above all Giovanni Animuccia and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Francesco Soriano, Virgilio Mazzocchi, Orazio Benevoli, Paolo Lorenzani and Pietro Bencini. Also employed there were such opera composers as Domenico Scarlatti, Niccolò Jommelli and Nicola Zingarelli, the proponents of Italian Cecilianism up to Armando Renzi, and such renowned organists as Girolamo Frescobaldi.

In this documentary history, as comprehensive as it is exciting to read, Giancarlo Rostirolla pays tribute to the Cappella Giulia as a musical institution of extraordinary historical importance and the vehicle for half a millennium of sacred music. For decades the author, an internationally acclaimed authority on Rome's musical traditions, has immersed himself like few others in the church and chapel archives, libraries and music collections of the Eternal City.

– For the first time these two volumes explore the history of the Cappella Giulia with information on all the musicians known to have worked there, together with their biographies, lists of compositions and documents on the chapel's history.