SKU: TO.10373
ISBN 9790201540542.
SKU: UT.XXS-4
ISBN 9790215300279. 8.26 x 11.69 inches.
Sonata (1984); 2 Movimenti (1990); Tema e variazioni (1991); Preludio; Dal mondo nuovo. Piccolo divertimento (1992); Nuvole (per Flauto solo) (1986)
SKU: FZ.2664
ISBN 9790230626644. 22.50 x 31.50 cm inches.
This facsimile of an original by Charles-Antoine Branche is part of our French classical music collection. Edition : Paris, l'Auteur, Boivin, Leclerc, Castagnery, 1748. These sonatas are very interesting on account of their technical difficulties as well as their melodic quality and wealth of ornamentation. Preface by Philippe Lescat: biography of C. A. Branche - Branche's works - notation - accidentals - figures - phrasing - ornamentation - time signatures. 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 a copy in the National Library of Paris (France). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose period copies of classical music scores.
SKU: HL.50078040
UPC: 073999349184. 9.0x12.0x0.508 inches.
Contents: Suites 251-300.
SKU: PR.110406720
UPC: 680160001316.
I have always been fond of writing works for specific people or organizations. It has been my good fortune during most of my creative career to be asked to compose for many extraordinary performers. The Sonata for Harpsichord Solo is such a case in point: it was written in 1982 for Barbara Harbach, a superb performer, close friend, and collaborator on many musical projects. The Sonata was premiered on March 2, 1984, in a recital given by Dr. Harbach at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. During my formative years as a composer, one seldom heard of the harpsichord as a modern instrument, though while I attended undergraduate school at Boston University, some of us banded together to construct a small harpsichord from one of the first do-it-yourself kits which began to appear in the late '40s. It was also during this time that I heard the Sonatina for Violin and Harpsichord by my teacher Walter Piston and consequently specified that the accompanying instrument for my second violin sonata could either be a piano or a harpsichord. It was not until recently, however, that my interest in the harpsichord as a solo instrument for new music was aroused. This was because of the emergence of so many young virtuosi, such as Barbara Harbach, who are interested in the performance of new music besides the great harpsichord music of the Classical, Baroque, and pre-Baroque eras. The keyboard music of Domenico Scarlatti has always intrigued and fascinated me. The brevity, excitement, and clarity of this sparkling music is charming as well as exhilarating. It is this type of Baroque sonata that inspired the conception and form of my harpsichord sonata. The entire work is loosely based on the musical translation of Barabara Harbach's name, especially the conflict of the B (B-flat) and H (B-natural in German notation). This secondo rub or dissonance especially pervades the first movement, which is in a modified sonata form, pitting jagged and tense melodic elements against most lyrical and smooth lines. This second movement is a song-like melody accompanied by rolled chords which may be played on the lute stop of the instrument if this sonata is performed on a two-manual harpsichord. The final movement is an ever-driving joyous toccata which brings the work to an exciting close with a coda made up of accelerating repeated chords. --Samuel Adler.
SKU: HL.49007211
ISBN 9790001077491. UPC: 073999780147.
Hans Werner Henze used original music by Scarlatti, Handel and Vivaldi to evoke the baroque lifestyle for a TV film of Jose Montes-Baquer based on the novella Concierto Barocco by the Cuban Alejo Carpentier; the film music of L'amour a mort by the French master director Alain Resnais was turned into a sonata by Henze.
SKU: SU.50010720
Trumpet, Piano (reduction of orchestra version) C Major: original key I. Allegro (Sonata-Allegro); II. Andante (Aria with Variations); III. Rondo Composed: 1984; Revised 2006 Published by: Seesaw Music Performance materials available on rental only:.
SKU: PR.11440719S
UPC: 680160011087. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Sambuca, which most people know today as a licorice-flavored liqueur, was the name the Greeks gave to a kind of sharp, shrill-sounding harp, of Eastern, possibly Jewish origin. The Greeks then gave this same name to a wooden flute made from the elder bush, and in the middle ages it was also associated with the viol, at least to the extent that the Hurdy-gurdy, an instrument shaped like a viol and played by means of a rotating wheel, was sometimes called a Sambuca rotata. Thus, the word Sambuca is tied up with the ancestors - in each case, ancestors of ow birth, as it were - of the modern harp, flute, and viola. Somehow, the present-day association with alcohol seems very meet, in that a certain objectionable quality seems to have gone with the name - in 1545 one George Ascham wrote, This I am sure... all maner of pypes, barbitons, sambukes... be condemned of Aristotle. The word Sambucistria - for a female Sambuca player - was used by Plutarch and others to evoke a feeling of foreign-inspired decadence [Grove's Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 1984]. Currier's work is truly a Sambuca sonata. Written for the three Sambuca instruments, Currier has first of all seemingly endeavoured to make the harp part particularly Sambuca-like (i.e., sharp and shrill) with its many nail and xylophonic effects, but more importantly, has used musical material that corresponds to the low-brow, somewhat Dionysian, indeed, today even Bacchanalian implication of the name - thus, rock music seems to inspire a great deal Currier's work [the Samba, an appropriately Bacchanalian Brazilian Carnival dance, in duple meter with syncopations, while apparently having no etymological connection to Sambuca, might seem to be musically involved, too]. The Sambuca which lies behind this rather drunken piece is probably the only musical instrument which became a model for an instrument of war; one Craxton wrote in 1489 that Sambuce is an engyn whiche is made in manere of a harpe able to perce a walle. But whether talking of the modern liqueur or the ancient instrument condemned of Aristotle and mentioned four times in the Book of Daniel, it is a shame that Debussy - inspired by the Dionysian side of classical culture (as in Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune) - seems to have remained ignorant Sambuca, a word which to some extent must lie behind all works for this wonderful instrumentation which he invented, and which I might seem to have striven unconsciously, equally ignorant, to make the sole basis of Currier's work - until, having completed this piece, written for harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet, and rummaging around for a title, I chanced upon it in an old dictionary.
SKU: IS.VA4754EM
ISBN 9790365047543.
Though born in the Netherlands, composer Marinus de Jong (1891 - 1984) traded his Dutch citizenship for a Belgian one in 1926, and is considered one of Belgium's most prominent composers and pianists of the 20th century. He began his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Antwerp, Belgium, at the age of 15, studying under Lodewijk Mortelmans and Emile Bosquet. His Sonata for Viola Solo, Op. 106 (Sonate voor altviool solo), published by Metropolis Music Publishers in 1973, is a masterful work in four movements. It demonstrates not only his compositional style, sometimes playful and jazzy, other times plaintive and improvisatory, but also his familiarity with the viola, an instrument which he also played.
SKU: HL.50100760
9.0x12.0x0.3 inches.
SKU: SU.50010722
Trumpet, Piano (reduction of wind ensemble version) I. Allegro (Sonata-Allegro); II. Andante (Aria with Variations); III. Rondo Composed: 1984; Revised: 2006 Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: BA.BA01984
ISBN 9790006415977. 30 x 23 cm inches.
SKU: HL.50494150
PER PIANOFORTE.
SKU: HL.50038240
8.0x10.75x0.124 inches.
SKU: HL.49003065
ISBN 9790220114403. UPC: 884088029845. 9.0x12.0x0.185 inches.
SKU: HL.50039720
6.75x10.5 inches.
SKU: HL.14043042
ISBN 9788759829424.
Composed 1984.
SKU: HL.50493994
PER VIOLINO E PIANOFORTE.
SKU: HL.50040570
UPC: 073999938890. 8.0x10.75x0.122 inches.
SKU: HL.50039310
SKU: HL.50494145
SKU: HL.50489889
SKU: SU.50026720
Copyright 1984. Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: HL.50038830
SKU: HL.49007221
ISBN 9790001077637. 9.0x12.0x0.201 inches.
Bei diesem Stuck handelt es sich um die gesamte, in Sonatenform geschriebene Musik zu dem Film 'L'amour a mort' von Alain Resnais, die ich 1983 mit 'The Fires of London' in London in den Hammersmith Studios aufgenommen habe.'(Hans Werner Henze, zitiert nach: Hans Werner Henze. Ein Werkverzeichnis 1946-1996.- Mainz 1996, S. 388).
SKU: HL.50103550
UPC: 073999582154. 8.0x10.75x0.089 inches.