PARTITIONS GRATUITES :
- Henry Holcombe

Solo voice and keyboard

SKU: HH.HH604-FSC

Composed by Henry Holcombe. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH604-FSC. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH604-FSC).

ISBN 9790708213192.

Henr y Holcombe (1690–1756), born in Chester as the son of a silk weaver, became between 1720 and his death one of the leading English composers in small-scale forms, mainly vocal but also instrumental. Most of his vocal compositions are short, strophic songs, but each of his two major song collections – The Garland (1748) and The Musical Medley (1755) – contains a work in several movements describable as a chamber cantata. This volume brings together Holcombe’s four cantatas, which are very attractive melodically and fine examples of a kind of music widely cultivated in English domestic music-making during most of the eighteenth century. They can be performed by voice and keyboard alone, but the option also exists to use a violin and/or a cello in addition.

Voice and keyboard

SKU: HH.HH582-FSC

Composed by Henry Holcombe. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH582-FSC. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH582-FSC).

ISBN 9790708185970.

Henr y Holcombe (1690–1756), born in Chester as the son of a silk weaver, became between 1720 and his death one of the leading English composers in small-scale forms, mainly vocal but also instrumental. His lifelong interest in Italian language and music led him to produce a charming set of twelve Italian canzonets (published in 1753). These songs for high voice, male or female, are unusual for their genre in drawing their texts from arias found in operatic librettos rather than from purpose-written poetry. They are well suited to both domestic and concert use. Individual canzonets will make excellent ‘encore’ items, while short sequences of them will provide excellent material for solo recitals.

Violin & basso continuo

SKU: HH.HH577-FSP

Composed by Henry Holcombe. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH577-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH577-FSP).

ISBN 9790708185932.

In these sonatas he betrays his Italian leanings and especially his debt to the Italian violinist Carbonelli, who was his friend and possibly also teacher. Mixed in with the Italian elements are ones taken from English song, where Holcombe excelled. The result is a fascinating stylistic synthesis and a valuable contribution to violin literature.

Violin & basso continuo

SKU: HH.HH578-FSP

Composed by Henry Holcombe. Edited by Michael Talbot. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH578-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH578-FSP).

ISBN 9790708185918.

In these sonatas he betrays his Italian leanings and especially his debt to the Italian violinist Carbonelli, who was his friend and possibly also teacher. Mixed in with the Italian elements are ones taken from English song, where Holcombe excelled. The result is a fascinating stylistic synthesis and a valuable contribution to violin literature.