SKU: UT.HS-327
ISBN 9790215327900. 9 x 12 inches.
In 1716, François Couperin published in Paris L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin, that brief and famous method containing eight Preludes, all extraordinarily beautiful, as well as technically very useful. Less than fifty years later, in 1762 in Madrid, Padre Antonio Soler published through Joachin Ibarra a weighty treatise of 272 pages (Llave de la Modulacion), which includes – in the tenth and final chapter – eight Preludes for keyboard instrumentThis kind of Prelude, according to what emerges from the thorny and at times ambiguous language of Padre Soler, while maintaining its undoubted basic executive value, stands on the one hand as a study of composition and on the other as an exercise in improvisation. Both these categories are more than pertinent to the period in which this work was conceived and to its aesthetics. In this sense, the term arbitri itself, so widely used in the musical text, is perhaps the most representative of a type of training that is actually centred more on practice procedure than on merely theoretical study.
SKU: CF.CPS104
ISBN 9780825874192. UPC: 798408074197. 9x12 inches.
Spanish-style rhythms, melodies and harmonies abound in this lovely new concert work from composer Bill Calhoun. From the opening “bird-like” calls from the woodwinds accompanied by the ascending chords in the clarinets and the brass, one can picture the sun rising above the horizon at the start of a Morning in Madrid. This piece will help you teach your students about lyrical expression while playing.
SKU: TM.550-6203SET
Procession of the Military Night Watch in Madrid; Grade = difficult; sc in set. Featured in the film, Master and Commander.
SKU: BR.EB-9361
World premiere: Madrid, Auditorio Nacional, March 15, 2015Commissioned by Centro Nacional de Difusion Madrid
ISBN 9790004188316. 12.5 x 10 inches.
World premiere: Madrid, Auditorio Nacional, March 15, 2015 Commissioned by Centro Nacional de Difusion Madrid.
SKU: BR.EB-9360
ISBN 9790004188309. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: UT.NAP-11R
ISBN 9790215324459. 9 x 12 inches.
Performance Material on Hire[Solo: SSATTB - Choir: SATB - 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - Tp - Hp - Str]Francesca da Rimini is a drama for music in two acts by Saverio Mercadante, libretto by Felice Romani; the text is freely inspired by the unfortunate events of the two lovers, Francesca and Paolo, of which Dante's Comedy (canto V) also narrates.According to some scholars, the first performance of Francesca da Rimini took place in Madrid in January 1828; however, this date is not reflected in the Diario de Avisos de Madrid, a publication that daily reserved a conspicuous space for news on the shows staged in the Spanish city: the years between 1828 and 1831 in fact do not mention the work. Furthermore, no printed libretto of Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini is preserved today – an inexplicable fact, if one admits that the performance took place. The text of the opera can be largely traced back to the one prepared by Romani for the homonymous work by Antonio Carlini (Naples 1825), which Mercadante was able to know before his stay in Spain.Following the missed Spanish premiere, the opera should then have been represented at La Scala Theater in a subsequent season, with reliability the imminent one of the 1831/32 carnival; but shortly thereafter the impresario died: thus the contractual obligations involving him were no longer fulfilled, and, for a second time, Mercadante was then forced to shelve the plans about Francesca da Rimini, put aside now for several months. In fact, the scoring – very similar to that of the operas planned at La Scala in the same Carnival period – assumes that Francesca da Rimini was destined for a theatre of great means, like few others in Italy besides La Scala. But the failure of the opera may also have been due to the presence of the part of an amoroso en travesti, Paolo, to whom Mercadante assigns a prominent role also in terms of music: in 1831 and in Italy such a solution was no longer so frequent as a few years before or in provincial theatres, and so this condition may possibly have affected the fate of the negotiations in Milan, and may explain how the composer was then unable to have the score performed elsewhere.This critical edition is based on manuscript copies conserved in the Museo internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna (autograph score) and in the Biblioteca Histórica Municipal in Madrid (score and separate parts).
SKU: UT.BCE-8
ISBN 9790215325388. 9 x 12 inches.
The Quintets nos. 1-7, 9 and the 12 Variazioni sulla Ritirata di Madrid, for guitar and string quartet, are not listed in Boccherini’s autograph catalogues, nor in the Catalogo Boccherini y Calonje, nor in the Catalogue Baillot. However they are mentioned in the Catalogue Picquot, and they have come down to us through three non-autograph manuscripts and three unauthorized printed editions of the early twentieth century. The documentary evidence establishes their authorship, their dating and the relevant musical source, as the single movements for the most part are transcriptions of compositions for other instrumental settings.The primary source of the Quintets 1-6 is ms. Wc, Washington (DC), Library of Congress, Ms. M. 574. B Case, olim M. 572. B65 Case [RISM A/II: deest]. Written in Madrid in 1811 by François de Fossa, it derives from a copy prepared by Boccherini for the commissioner of the pieces, Francisco Borja de Riquer y de Ros, marquis of Benavent, an amateur guitarist and patron of Boccherini from 1796. The primary source of the Quintets 7, 9 and the 12 Variazioni sulla Ritirata di Madrid is ms. L520, a codex comprising 5 volumes, dating from the first half of the nineteenth century, certainly assembled at Bar-Le-Duc, the residence of Louis Picquot from 1832 to 1853, who probably was the commissioner and first owner. Upon Picquot’s death, the codex was sold at auction in 1904 by the Berlin antiquarian Leo Liepmannssohn as lot 520. In 1911 it was acquired by the Gitarristische Vereinigung of Munich. During the twentieth century this institution dissolved, and the ex lot 520 passed into anonymous private hands. Rediscovered and examined in 2010 by Andreas Stevens and Fulvia Morabito, the codex was acquired by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.
SKU: UT.NAP-11
ISBN 9790215323438. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.KM-2509
World premiere: Madrid, Auditorio Nacional, February 24, 2005 (Belcea Quartet)
ISBN 9790004503324. 9 x 12 inches.
World premiere: Madrid, Auditorio Nacional, February 24, 2005 (Belcea Quartet).
SKU: HL.14027731
ISBN 9780711963528. English.
Spanish clarinettist, composer, and teacher Antonio Romero y Andia was born in 1815 in Madrid. He made his debut at 14, and later became solo clarinettist and music director of the Royal Court Orchestra. He is now remembered primarily for the Clarinet key system that bears his name, as his compositional works, though high quality, were few in number. From 1849-1876, Romero was the Clarinet Professor at the Madrid Conservatory, where he wrote his Complete Clarinet Method . Over 150 years later, it is still in popular use by schools and conservatories all over the world.
SKU: HL.14027730
ISBN 9780711958135. English.
Spanish clarinettist, composer, and teacher Antonio Romero y Andia was born in 1815 in Madrid. He made his debut at 14, and later became solo clarinettist and music director of the Royal Court Orchestra. He is now remembered primarily for the Clarinet key system that bears his name, as his compositional works, though high quality, were few in number. From 1849-1876, Romero was the Clarinet Professor at the Madrid Conservatory, where he wrote several his Complete Clarinet Method . Over 150 years later, it is still in popular use by schools and conservatories all over the world.
SKU: BT.MUSUMP16782
Angelita is a Tango dance for solo Piano by Angel Barrios , probably written at some point in the first decade of the 20th century. It smoothly blends Iberian melodies and enthusiasm with exotic late Romantic harmonies, creating an exciting and catchy work. Angel Barrios (1882-1964) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist. Born in Granada, he studied in Madrid and Paris, initially learning the Violin before switching to Guitar, becoming a formidable concert performer. He wrote many works for opera, which were performed in both Madrid and Granada, as well as orchestral pieces, dances, and solo works for Piano and for Guitar.
SKU: BR.KM-2508
ISBN 9790004503317. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.EB-9336
World premiere: Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, March 8, 2014Commissioned by Inaki Alberdi
ISBN 9790004188002. 10.5 x 14 inches.
World premiere: Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, March 8, 2014 Commissioned by Inaki Alberdi.
SKU: FJ.FJH2318
ISBN 9781619282551. UPC: 241444400272. English.
Seven pieces in various genres---lyrical, rock, ballad, jazz, and more---offer your students motivating repertoire that will keep them playing and practicing. Kevin knows what teenagers want to play---these selections are fun to learn, fun to play and fun to perform! Titles are: Above and Beyond; Carousel; Color the World; High Five; Love Notes; Power Chords; and Tales from Madrid.
