Baroque Keyboard Masterpieces: 39 Works by Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Couperin and Others
Автор: Dover Название: Renaissance and Baroque Ceiling Masterpieces ISBN: 0486465292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486465296 Издательство: Dover Рейтинг: Цена: 2476.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Drawn from two rare 19th-century French and German portfolios, this unique treasury features full-color reproductions of more than 60 magnificent ceilings from European castles, churches, and galleries. Whether used in their entirety or as individual motifs, these designs will add beauty and sophistication to any art or craft project.
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.
More than 50 classic guitar works, from rarities to popular favorites, appear in this remarkable musical treasury. Each work has been newly edited and/or transcribed for solo guitar by guitarist and music scholar David Nadal and printed from engraved plates prepared specially for this edition. This collection features such hard-to-find gems as the 13th-century Cantigas de Santa Maria by Spanish ruler Alfonso X, modern guitar transcriptions of two 16th-century Fantasias for lute by the legendary Francesco da Milano, and Vivaldi's complete Concerto in D. In addition, this volume contains such 20th-century masterworks as Enrique Granados's Spanish Dance (Andaluza) and Isaac Alb niz's world-famous Asturias (Leyenda), as well as time-honored compositions by Bach, Dowland, Paganini, Scarlatti, Schubert, T rrega, and other great composers. Guitarists at every level of expertise will find this sturdy, attractive, modestly priced collection of enduring works an indispensable addition to their musical libraries.
Автор: Handel, George Frideric Название: Keyboard Works for Solo Instrument ISBN: 0486243389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486243382 Издательство: Dover Цена: 2848.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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.
Bach's life was a searching for all that was best in his art to refine it in the fire of his genius. -- Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians Bach's mastery of rhythm and harmony, inventiveness, and genius for composition produced some of the richest and most beautiful music of all time. Those qualities are strikingly evident in his early concerti, which are among the most recorded and performed works in the baroque repertoire. This easy-to-read volume reprints, complete and unabridged, the master's seven complete concerti for solo keyboard and orchestra from the renowned Bach-Gesellschaft edition, still considered the primary source for Bach's music. Composed in Leipzig (c. 1735), these elegant works are almost completely based on earlier extant or lost concerti by Bach for violin and wind instruments. The concerti reproduced here in full score include Concerto in D Minor (BWV1052), Concerto in E Major (BWV 1053), Concerto in D Major (BWV 1054), Concerto in A Major (BWV 1055), Concerto in F Minor (BWV 1056), Concerto in F Major (BWV 1057), and Concerto in G Minor (BWV 1058). Musicians, students, and Bach devotees will applaud this clearly printed, wonderfully affordable playing edition of classic compositions by the supreme master of the baroque.
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.
