PARTITIONS GRATUITES : CLAVECIN
- This Will Be

SKU: 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.

SKU: FZ.5835

ISBN 9790230658355. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.

These early music methods are in facsimile in two books. ANCELET - Antoine BEMETZIEDER (1-2) - Jean-Laurent de BETHISY - Michel CORRETTE (2) - Denis DIDEROT - Jacques DUPHLY (1-2) - Encyclopedie - Encyclopedie methodique - Louis-Joseph le neveu FRANCOEUR - Pierre Claude FOUCQUET (1-2) - Francois-Alexandre-Pierre de GARSAULT - Jean-Benjamin de LABORDE - Philippe MACQUER - Friedrich Wilhelm MARPURG - Jean-Philippe RAMEAU (4) - Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU - Simon SIMON. Table of contents: Corrette Michel: Les amusements du Parnasse - 1749. Foucquet Pierre Claude: Les caracteres de la paix - 1749. Foucquet Pierre Claude: Second livre de pieces de clavecin - 1751. Encyclopedie: Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisonne - 1751/1772. Duphly Jacques: Troisieme livre de pieces de clavecin - 1756. Ancelet: Observations sur la musique - 1757. Rameau Jean-Philippe: Code de musique pratique - 1760. Garsault Francois-Alexandre-Pierre de: Notionnaire - 1761. Simon Simon: Pieces de clavecin - 1761. Bethisy Jean-Laurent de: Exposition de la theorie - 1764. Rousseau Jean-Jacques: Dictionnaire de la musique - 1768. Duphly Jacques: Du doigter - c. 1769. Diderot Denis: Manuscrit autographe - s. d. Bemetzrieder Antoine: Lecons de clavecin - 1771. Francoeur Louis-Joseph le neveu: Diapason general - 1772. Macquer Philippe: Dictionnaire raisonne - 1773. Laborde Jean-Benjamin de: Essai sur la musique - 1780. Bemetzrieder Antoine: Nouvelles lecons de clavecin - 1783. Encyclopedie methodique: Encyclopedie methodique, arts et metiers mecaniques - 1788. Marpurg Friedrich Wilhelm: L'art de toucher le clavecin - c. 1797. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of copies from:- National Library of Paris (France). - Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge (England). - Bayerische Staatsbibliotheck of Munich (Germany). - British Library of London (England). - In Private collection. Anne Fuzeau Classique propose the complete theoretic documentation, methods, classical music scores on the harpsichord.