SKU: UT.QC-2

ISBN 9788881094585. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

The career of Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) spanned the lives of both Mozart and Beethoven and was exceptionally diverse. It encompassed performing on the keyboard, conducting, teaching, business activities and composition in the realms of keyboard, chamber and orchestral music. This book focuses on Clementi’s keyboard sonatas and aims to shed new light on their relationship with the complex cross-currents of late eighteenth-century musical style, both in England, where Clementi was active for much of his career, and the continent, which he visited periodically.
The first chapter summarises Clementi’s historical reputation as it developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and evaluates the impact on it of the significant developments in Clementi scholarship since 2000. The aim is to stress the deficiencies of the established view of Clementi as a keyboard pedagogue and to stress the importance of liberating him as much as possible from this ingrained perception. This is attempted, in the remaining chapters, through close, analytical readings of a variety of keyboard sonatas from all stages of his career, comparing them with a range of works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and other contemporaries such as Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812). The comparisons are made from the perspectives of distinguishing features of Clementi’s style such as his unusually intense deployment of strict counterpoint in the later keyboard sonatas; his cultivation of irregularity in recapitulations; his use of the ‘three-key’ exposition in the middle-to-later stages of his career that seems to anticipate nineteenth-century developments, and also his assimilation of heightened virtuosity into the earlier sonatas, often in the form of cadenzas more suggestive of the keyboard concerto – a genre Clementi seems, rather strangely, to have neglected. The book has been envisaged as a direct response, not only to the most recent scholarship on Clementi, but also to current approaches to eighteenth-century music in general, including the interdisciplinary work of Annette Richards.

SKU: BT.9780713670462

ISBN 9780713670462.

Ten classical themes by the greatest composers have been arranged for a young Recorder ensemble. A selection of melodies by Mozart, Boccerini, Weber, Beethoven and more are presented here in full score for four descantRecorders with Piano accompaniment. The four parts vary in difficulty to suit a mixed-ability classroom group. An audio CD provides exemplary quality backing tracks and example performances for use in rehearsal or in concert.

Furthermore, a CD-ROM is also provided which is packed with parts for other Recorders, including 3 parts for treble/sopranino, 3 parts for tenor and bass parts for any C instrument.
The selectionofworks will give young students vital first-time experience of Classical music-playing, and the pack contains everything you need for even the most unusual combination of instruments and abilities.

SKU: KN.17239

UPC: 822795172393.

Finally, a grade 3-4 trumpet quartet collection that has interesting and fun parts for all players! All works are suitable for recitals, concerts, and contest. Ten works spanning the Renaissance through ragtime are included.

Contents:
March Pontificale (Gounod); Sing We And Chant It (Morley); The Fiddler (Brahms); Fantasy On Scarborough Fair (traditional); Spinning Song (Ellmenreich); Now Is The Month Of Maying (Morley); Sonatina (Clementi); Te Deum (Charpentier); Can Can (Offenbach); Rag (Jarvis).

SKU: KN.17237

UPC: 822795172379.

Finally, a grade 3-4 trumpet quartet collection that has interesting and fun parts for all players! All works are suitable for recitals, concerts, and contest. Ten works spanning the Renaissance through ragtime are included.

Contents:
March Pontificale (Gounod); Sing We And Chant It (Morley); The Fiddler (Brahms); Fantasy On Scarborough Fair (traditional); Spinning Song (Ellmenreich); Now Is The Month Of Maying (Morley); Sonatina (Clementi); Te Deum (Charpentier); Can Can (Offenbach); Rag (Jarvis).