SKU: KU.OCT-10043_CEMB
Key: F major.
SKU: KU.OCT-10244_CEMB
Key: G major.
SKU: KU.OCT-10198_CEMB
Key: D major.
SKU: KU.OCT-10060_CEMB
ISBN 9790206200540. Key: G minor.
SKU: KU.OCT-10229_CEMB
SKU: KU.OCT-10061_CEMB
SKU: KU.OCT-10284_CEMB
ISBN 9790206200472. Key: D minor.
SKU: KU.OCT-10180_CEMB
SKU: KU.OCT-10074_CEMB
ISBN 9790206209383. Key: C major.
SKU: KU.OCT-10032_CEMB
SKU: KU.OCT-10091_CEMB
Key: E minor.
SKU: KU.OCT-10090_CEMB
SKU: KU.OCT-10275_CEMB
Key: C major.
SKU: KU.OCT-10092_CEMB
ISBN 9790206206818. Key: A minor.
SKU: KU.GM-751_CEMB
SKU: KU.OCT-10228_CEMB
SKU: KU.OCT-10237_CEMB
ISBN 9790206210266. Key: D major.
SKU: KU.OCT-10165_CEMB
SKU: KU.OCT-10105_CEMB
SKU: UT.DM-74
ISBN 9790215320659. 9 x 12 inches.
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: UT.GCE-15
ISBN 9790215327658. 9 x 12 inches.
Menuetti con variazioni composti per il cembalo (1739) (H. 201-202); Pièces de clavecin (1743) (H. 203-213); The Second Collection of Pieces for the Harpsichord (1762) (H. 214-259)
SKU: CU.EC10801
SKU: CU.EC10800
ISBN 9790215900943.
SKU: CU.EC11008
ISBN 9788863950090.
SKU: CU.EC9655
ISBN 9788863950625.
SKU: CU.EC2727
ISBN 9790215903043.
SKU: CU.EC11132
SKU: UM.88898
ISBN 9790224406405.
SKU: UM.9482
ISBN 9790224409482.