Twenty Keyboard Pieces and one by Orlando Gibbons

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-1-86096-128-1
Verlag: Associatied Board of the Royal School of Music

Medienkombination, Englisch, 48 Seiten, Book & CD, Format (B × H): 305 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 203 g

First publication of the Purcell manuscript discovered in 1993 and now held in The British Library, London. Henry Purcell used this teaching manuscript to introduce the forms and keyboard techniques of his day. This publication has been edited by leading British harpsichordist Davitt Moroney, and includes his fascinating preface illustrating the collection's background and importance, five facsimile pages and a recording of all the pieces by Davitt Moroney on CD.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moroney, Davitt

Weitere Mitwirkende

Purcell, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Partituren, Autographen, Libretti, Liederbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Tasteninstrumente

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Prelude (folios 4-5) [Orlando Gibbons]

- Prelude (folio iv) [Henry Purcell]

- Minuet (folio 2) [Henry Purcell]

- Air (folio 2) [Henry Purcell]

- Minuet (folio 2v) [Henry Purcell]

- 'Thus Happy and Free' (folio 2v) [Henry Purcell]

- Hornpipe (folio 3) [Henry Purcell]

- Air (folio 3v) [Henry Purcell]

- Hornpipe (folio 5v) [Henry Purcell]

- Hornpipe (folio 6) [Henry Purcell]

- Minuet (folio 6v) [Henry Purcell]

- Air (folio 7) [Henry Purcell]

- Minuet (folio 7v) [Henry Purcell]

- Set (Suite) in A minor - Prelude (folio 8) [Henry Purcell]

- Set (Suite) in A minor - Almand (folio 8v-9) [Henry Purcell]

- Set (Suite) in A minor - Corant (folio 9v) [Henry Purcell]

- Set (Suite) in A minor - Jig (folio 10) [Henry Purcell]

- Set (Suite) in C major - Prelude (folio 10v) [Henry Purcell]

- Set (Suite) in C major - Almand (folio 11-10v) [Henry Purcell]

- Set (Suite) in C major - Corant (folio 11v) [Henry Purcell]

- Set (Suite) in C major - Saraband (folio 12) [Henry Purcell]

Über Autor(innen)

Purcell was the outstanding musician and composer of his time in Britain. Like other seventeenth-century musicians, Purcell's career began in the church, first as a chorister at the Chapel Royal, then as organist at Westminster Abbey composing anthems. At court he enjoyed the favour of successive monarchs composing odes on special occasions, but his works for Mary II are the best known, composed when Purcell was reaching the height of his powers, just before his premature death.