Works for organ and keyboard
Works for organ and keyboard

Author: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0486249352

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Remarkable treasury includes nearly all of early Dutch composer's difficult-to-find organ and keyboard works, reproduced from a clearly-printed, reliable 1943 edition. Includes chorale variations; toccatas and fantasias; variations on secular, dance tunes. Also 3 incomplete and/or modified works, and an authentic fantasia by John Bull, based on a now-lost Sweelinck fugue. New Publisher's Note. Contents with incipits.

Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music
Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music

Author: Pieter Dirksen

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780754654414

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One of the most remarkable tales of recent resurrections in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595-1663). Pieter Dirksen considers the transmission of Scheidemann's music as a whole and the repertoire itself

Keyboard Music Before 1700
Keyboard Music Before 1700

Author: Alexander Silbiger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1135924236

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Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe. Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and Portugal. The book concludes with a chapter on performance practice, which addresses current issues in the interpretation and revival of this music.

The History of Keyboard Music to 1700
The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

Author: Willi Apel

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 9780253211415

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This classic work is a meticulous chronological survey of music for the keyboard from the earliest extant manuscripts of the 14th century to the end of the 17th. Apel traces the evolution of keyboard instruments, genres, national schools and styles (from Poland to Portugal), and the oeuvre of many composers. A monument of scholarship, this indispensable reference work is also remarkably user-friendly and engagingly written throughout.

Interpreting Historical Keyboard Music
Interpreting Historical Keyboard Music

Author: Andrew Woolley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 131711356X

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Research in the field of keyboard studies, especially when intimately connected with issues of performance, is often concerned with the immediate working environments and practices of musicians of the past. An important pedagogical tool, the keyboard has served as the ’workbench’ of countless musicians over the centuries. In the process it has shaped the ways in which many historical musicians achieved their aspirations and went about meeting creative challenges. In recent decades interest has turned towards a contextualized understanding of creative processes in music, and keyboard studies appears well placed to contribute to the exploration of this wider concern. The nineteen essays collected here encompass the range of research in the field, bringing together contributions from performers, organologists and music historians. Questions relevant to issues of creative practice in various historical contexts, and of interpretative issues faced today, form a guiding thread. Its scope is wide-ranging, with contributions covering the mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century. It is also inclusive, encompassing the diverse range of approaches to the field of contemporary keyboard studies. Collectively the essays form a survey of the ways in which the study of keyboard performance can enrich our understanding of musical life in a given period.

Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music
Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music

Author: Pieter Dirksen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 135156398X

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One of the most remarkable tales of recent resurrections in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595-1663). Long considered a minor master overshadowed by such figures as his teacher Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck or his fellow student Samuel Scheidt, a number of major source discoveries made in the second half of the twentieth century - the most important one being the discovery of the Zellerfield tablatures - have gradually raised his stature towards what it should now be, namely that of the paramount figure in North German organ music of the first half of the seventeenth century, equalled only by Buxtehude in the second half. Pieter Dirksen, one of the leading scholars on early German keyboard music, shows how Scheidemann was a central personality in the rich musical life of Hamburg and stood on friendly terms with colleagues such as Jacob and Johannes Praetorius, Ulrich Cernitz, Thomas Selle, Johann Schop and Johann Rist. The sources for Scheidemann are for the most part contemporary and stem from all periods of his career, and beyond that until one or two decades after his death. His keyboard music was never published in his lifetime but circulated widely within professional circles. Dirksen considers the transmission of Scheidemann's music as a whole in Part One, where each source is analyzed individually, and the repertoire itself is examined in Part Two. A number of specialized studies, including a detailed investigation into the background of one of the sources as well as adressing questions of organology (an account of the famous Catharinen organ as it was during Scheidemann's era) and performance practice (a study of the fingering indications and observations on registration practice) form Part Three. A wealth of appendices also detail a relative chronology of the music; a geographic overview of the transmission and two hitherto unpublished, fragmentarily transmitted Scheidemann pieces. The book will therefore a