SKU: UT.APS-6

ISBN 9788881094790. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

Essays by Gregory Barnett, Barra Boydell, Enrico Careri, Cheryll Duncan, Christopher Hogwood, Peter Holman, Clare Hornsby, Mark Kroll, Sandra Mangsen, Andrew Pink, Rudolf Rasch, Robin Stowell, Michael Talbot, Wiebke Thormahlen, Peter Walls, Neal Zaslaw

Sixteen essays by international scholars celebrate the 250th anniversary of Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), star pupil of Corelli and composer, performer and teacher in Paris, London and Dublin, who for many years was ranked as the equal of Handel.
His compositions moved far beyond Corelli's model (to include theatre music, sonatas for cello and keyboard works) and later in his life he supported his aesthetic style with treatises on violin and guitar playing, good taste, accompaniment and composition. He published all his output in the most elegant style via engravers and music sellers in Paris, Amsterdam and London, and constantly revised and rewrote earlier works in new and often expanded formats. This legacy is analysed and placed in context within the various national styles current in Europe, and the enormous influence of his treatise The Art of Playing on the Violin is positioned in a continuum which extends to Ivan Galamian.
Outside music these studies examine the effect of Freemasonry on Geminiani's career, and his frequent recourse to law to defend his rights. On his own admission, Geminiani preferred dealing in fine art to playing the violin -- a claim always derided by earlier writers, but in fact easily defended by newly available evidence of his highly successful sales.
The reception of Geminiani's music is also re-assessed and his apparent decline in public favour is explained; many new sources contradict the accepted and dismissive opinions of Charles Burney and John Hawkins, and the supportive enthusiasm of his main British advocate, Charles Avison, is given its rightful position. Questions of present-day performance values are also contrasted with Geminiani's philosophy, and many leads presented for the future investigation of this enigmatic but individual genius.

SKU: HL.49041248

ISBN 9790200212754. 9.0x12.0x0.008 inches.

SKU: HL.49041249

ISBN 9790200212761. 8.25x11.75x0.1 inches.

SKU: FZ.5826

ISBN 9790230658263. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.

These early music methods are in facsimile in three books. Bartolomeo BISMANTOVA - Francesco GEMINIANI (1-2) - Giuseppe TARTINI (1) - Carlo TESSARINI (1) - Aurelio VIRGILIANO - Gasparo ZANNETTI. Table of contents: Virgiliano Aurelio: Il dolcimelo d'Aurelio Virgiliano - c. 1600. Zannetti Gasparo: Il scolaro di Gasparo Zannetti - 1645. Bismantova Bartolomeo: Compendio musicale - 1677. Tessarini Carlo: Gramatica di musica - 1741. Tartini Giuseppe: L'Arte del arco - 1748. Geminiani Francesco: A treatise of good taste - 1749. Geminiani Francesco: The art of playing on the violin - 1751. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of copies from: - National Library of Paris (France). - Civico Museo Bibiografico Musicale of Bologna (Italy). - Municipal Library of Reggio Emilia (Italy).
- Gemeente Museum of The Hague (Netherlands). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose the complete theoretic documentation, methods, classical music scores on the violin.

SKU: UT.GCE-20

ISBN 9790215328259. 9 x 12 inches.

Given that appendices have since been included in other volumes, it now seems appropriate to compile an appendix for Volume 1A in the form of a separate publication, Volume 1C of the series. Even with a whole volume available, however, it is impossible to include all known arrangements. Such a publication would be of disproportionate size: it would require about 600 pages, due largely to the two complete or near-complete sets of concerto arrangements. The present volume thus includes only selections from these sets of concerto arrangements and also only a selection from Edward Finch’s complete set of arrangements in the form of transverse-flute sonatas. The smaller sets of arrangements—either as solo sonatas or as trio sonatas—are included in their entirety.
The available arrangements fall into three distinct categories: solo sonatas, trio sonatas, and concertos. There are fourteen arrangements by Edward Finch for transverse flute with figured bass; they are found in the so-called Armstrong-Finch manuscript and comprise a full set of twelve plus two duplicate versions. Four of these arrangements are included in the present volume. Three more arrangements for transverse flute or recorder with figured bass are found in anthologies of sonatas for these instruments published in the 1720s; they are all of them edited here. Geminiani’s Sonatas VII-XII were transformed into trio sonatas by Francesco Barsanti and published in this format in 1727. These arrangements are included here in complete form as well. A near-complete set of concerto arrangements—Sonata XI is missing—was composed by Charles Avison and a complete set by Gerhard Christoph Raupach, both sets composed probably in the 1730s. From each of these two sets, two examples were selected for inclusion in the present volume. They are supplemented by single concerto arrangements by William Hayes (after Sonata IV) and Johan Helmich Roman (after Sonata VI), composed at all probability in the 1730s as well. None of these concerto arrangements was published in the eighteenth century.

SKU: UT.GCE-15

ISBN 9790215327658. 9 x 12 inches.

Menuetti con variazioni composti per il cembalo (1739) (H. 201-202); Pièces de clavecin (1743) (H. 203-213); The Second Collection of Pieces for the Harpsichord (1762) (H. 214-259)

SKU: NR.93307

Instrumentation: strings 3-3-2-3-0.