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SKU: LM.28712D
ISBN 9790231701661.
SCHU MANN R. : Valse - RAMEAU J.P. : Gigue en rondeau - PADRE M.A. ROSSI : Allegro - IBERT J. : Romance - SCHUBERT F. : Valse sentimentale - SCHUBERT F. : Danse allemande - HAENDEL G.F. : Fuguette - SEIBER M. : Ap agapak - IBERT J. : La promenade en traineau - MENDELSSOHN F. : Chanson du gondelier - HAENDEL G.F. : Allemande - PROKOFIEFF S. : Attrape qui peut - F. CHOPIN Mazurka Op.67 n. 2 - SCARLATTI D. : Capriccio - DEBUSSY C. : Berceuse de l'elephant - REGER M. : Presque trop hardi - PIEPER M. : Valse - LOEILLET J.B. : Courante - BEETHOVEN L.Van : Valse - ALBENIZ I. : Prelude - BARTOK B. : Canotage - LULLY J.B. : Gigue - TCHAIKOVSKI P.I. : Chant d'automne - STERNBERG C. : Kinderballett - BRITTEN B. : Nocturne - GODARD B. : Gavotte - MARTINU B. : Colombine se souvient - MENDELSSOHN F. : Romance sans paroles op.19 n. 2 - STOCKHAUSEN K. : Klavierstuck - HAYDN J. : Sonate Hob XVI/4 - BARTOK B. : Rhapsody.
SKU: PR.110418390
ISBN 9781491134603. UPC: 680160685158.
Eric Ewazen’s THREE INVENTIONS were inspired by Bach’s Two-part Inventions, yet they sound thoroughly like Ewazen. Composed for harpsichord (with a piano adaptation following later), Ewazen’s inventions maintain a pure “one note per hand” texture until their final chord, with strong-but-free imitative counterpoint between the two voices. While Ewazen may be best known for his wind music, he is a pianist himself, and composers’ works for their own instrument are a direct insight into how they write for their own performances. The piano adaptation of THREE INVENTIONS is also available as a separate publication.THREE INVENTIONS was written for my dear friend Maria Rojas, who premiered the work on a faculty recital at Juilliard. Maria is both a pianist and a harpsichordist, and I first met her when she gave a demonstration of the harpsichord for the students in my theory classes.I’ve always been captivated by Bach’s series of Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions. With the Two-Part Inventions, I’m amazed how Bach could create such wonderful intricacy and counterpoint with only two voices. I consequently modeled my inventions after the counterpoint of Bach, involving the traditional contrapuntal devices he used: imitation, development, harmonic and modal shifts, fragmentation, and sequence, essentially creating a dialog between two completely equal voices conversing with each other!Bach wrote 15 Two-Part Inventions (as well as 15 Three-Part Inventions, not to mention the 48 preludes and fugues in The Well-Tempered Clavier!), and that’s just the start of his voluminous repertoire for the keyboard! I was happy just to write three!!!Each of my inventions has a distinctive mood. The first is in a relaxed, yet cheerful C Major tonality (as a nod to Bach’s Invention No. 1 in C Major); the second is heartfelt and lyrical; and the third invention (involving a Gigue rhythm in the compound meter of 12/8) is energetic, and full of life and spontaneity. The third is primarily in a minor tonality, resulting in a feeling of drama, bringing the THREE INVENTIONS to an exciting finale.
SKU: BP.HB25
Transcribed for 4 octave handbell choir. Level 6. From the organ works of J. S. Bach.
