Galliards, Pavans and Other Keyboard Works: Selections from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Автор: Maitland, J. Fuller Название: The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume One ISBN: 0486210685 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486210681 Издательство: Dover Цена: 28910.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is the most remarkable, and in many respects the most valuable collection of Elizabethan keyboard music, according to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Of unknown origins, the previously scarce collector's item is now available at popular prices for the first time. The pieces herein, while composed for the virginal, can be played without difficulty on piano or any other keyboard instrument. The nearly 300 airs, variations, fantasies, toccatas, pavanes, galliards, allemandes, and courantes in these two volumes include some of the finest examples of Elizabethan and Jacobean music: compositions by Thomas Morley, Orlando Gibbons, Giles Farnaby, Thomas Warrock, Ferdinando Richardson, Peter Phillips, Thomas Tompkins, and practically every other composer of the virginalistic school. John Bull and William Byrd, two of England's greatest composers, are represented by over 100 works. J. A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire set the music into modern notation, preserving faithfully the intent of the composers. The peculiarities of the original notation, time signatures, fingering, and the like as well as the ecclesiastical modes and accidentals employed by the composers are explained in a lucid introduction, which also discusses the history of the manuscript, the individuals connected with it, the composers, and the structure of the virginal. For this extensively revised and corrected Dover edition, Blanche Winogron, noted musicologist and performer, undertook a thorough critical reexamination of the 1899 Maitland Squire edition by closely comparing it to a copy of the original manuscript (the original is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England) from which it was transcribed. Numerous minor errors, misprints, and misinterpretations in the Maitland/Squire transcription have been corrected, resulting in a new edition closer to the original than ever before. The period of this music was one of transition from the older principles and systems of notation to modern theories. This, then, is a most important document for musicologists and others interested in the history of music. But it is also a source of delight, allowing for countless hours at the keyboard for all lovers of good music.
Автор: Bach, Johann Sebastian Название: Miscellaneous Keyboard Works: Toccatas, Fugues and Other Pieces ISBN: 0486266818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486266817 Издательство: Dover Цена: 20640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This volume brings together a wide selection of Bach's keyboard compositions, including many pieces difficult to find in other editions. Included are several well-known works: the important harpsichord toccatas, the Capriccio on the Departure of His Most Beloved Brother, the Aria Variata alla Maniera Italiana, and the Six Little Preludes, as well as many lesser-known but significant pieces -- fugues, sonatas, and other works -- over 40 in all. Reprinted from the authoritative Breitkopf and H rtel edition, the music in this inexpensive yet well-made volume offers pianists a rich selection of interesting works stamped with the melodic and rhythmic invention and harmonic audacity characteristic of Bach.
Автор: Esposito M. Название: Early Italian Keyboard Music: 49 Works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Martini and Others ISBN: 0486441881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486441887 Издательство: Dover Цена: 16510.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This outstanding anthology for keyboard players unites some of the finest works of Italy's major 17th- and 18th-century composers. Written for the harpsichord and clavichord, these 49 pieces by seventeen composers comprise sonatas, toccatas, fugues, and other works for keyboardists at early-intermediate to advanced levels. Arranged chronologically, the compilation begins with the earliest Italian composers such as Pasquini, Rossi, and the great Frescobaldi. Other featured composers include Alessandro Scarlatti and his son, Domenico; Durante; Zipoli; Martini; Galuppi, and Clementi.
Автор: Handel, George Frideric Название: Keyboard Works for Solo Instrument ISBN: 0486243389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486243382 Издательство: Dover Цена: 18990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The music historian Sir John Hawkings recorded that his friend Handel's keyboard improvisations "stole on the ear in a slow and solemn progression; the harmony close wrought, and as full as could be possibly be expressed; the passage concatenated with stupendous art, the whole at the same time being perfectly intelligible, and carrying the appearance of great simplicity." Such fecund spontaneity generated the few published pieces Handel wrote specifically for the keyboard. The first set of suites appeared in 1720, perhaps composed and published for the instruction of Princess Anne, to whom Handel serves as music master. Other collections of harpsichord and clavichord work followed; all seem to have been preserved from Handel's freely inventive keyboard sessions. Here, for the first time in a popularly accessible edition, are 35 of his finest keyboard works for solo instruments, reproduced from the monumental Deutsche H ndelgesellschaft edition, still the most complete. This collection features the celebrated Eight Great Suites, including the Harmonious Blacksmith Air and the Passacaille in G Minor (G 255), "a work in which Handel approaches most nearly to the monumental style of his choral writing" (Grove's Dictionary). Other works include: Fugue in A Minor; Fantasia in C Major; Suite (Partita) in G Minor; Sonatina in B-flat Major; Capriccio in F Major; Minuet in G Minor; Sonatas in C Major; Chaconne in F Major; Prelude and Sonata in G Minor; and more. For this new edition, the pieces have been rearranged and retitled according to the latest scholarly sequences found in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Students and scholars will find many of the ideas Handel sketched here expanded and reworked in later chamber and orchestral works and in the opera dance movements; musicians and every Baroque music lover will see in these neglected pieces "a Protean fluidity" (New Grove) worthy of the great composer, and more than worthy of any musical library.
