Description
A collection of 55 easy pieces of keyboard music from the period 1600-1750, offering a fairly representative selection of the forms, styles & composers of that period and providing both scholarly performing editions & sources of enlightenment on performance conventions. Edited by Dr Richard Jones for ABRSM. Set for ABRSM Examinations 2015 onwards Organ Grade 1 (List A: Blow - Air) & Grade 2 (List A: Daquin or Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March, The).
Anon. - Duke of York's March [Musick's Hand-Maide]; Menuet [Anna Magdalena Bach Book]
Bach, J.S. - Bourrée BWV820/5, Gigue BWV820/6 + Menuet & Trio BWV820/3-4 [Ouverture in F BWV820]; Sarabande BWV833/4 [Praeludium et Partita del Tuono terzo BWV833]
Barrett, John – Pilgrim, The [Third Book of the Harpsichord Master, The]
Blow, John - Air; Gavott & Saraband [Second Part of Musick's Hand-Maid, The]
Bohm, Georg - Sarabande
Byrne, Albertus - Saraband [Musick's Hand-Maide]
Chambonnieres, Jacques Champion De - Sarabande
Clarke, Jeremiah – Aire + Prince of Denmark's March, The [Second Book of the Harpsichord Master, The]
Couperin - Branle De Basque; Premier Air pour la Suite du Trophee (plain & ornamented versions) [Quatrieme Livre de Pieces de Clavecin]
Croft, William – Minuet + Scotch Tune [Third Book of the Harpsichord Master, The]
Dandrieu, Jean-Francois - L'Agreable (plain & ornamented versions) [Livre de Pieces de Clavecin]
Daquin - Suite de la Rejouissance (plain & ornamented versions) [1er Livre de Pieces de Clavecin]
Frescobaldi - Corrente Prima [Il primo Libro d'Intavolatura di Toccate]
Graupner, Johann Christoph - Menuet
Greene, Maurice - Aire
Handel - Gavotte HWV491; Impertinence HWV494; Menuet HWV450/6 [Partita in G]; Sonatina HWV582
Lawes, William - Saraband [Musick's Hand-Maide]
Lebegue, Nicolas-Antoine - Gavotte (plain & ornamented versions) [Les Pieces de Clavessin]
Le Roux, Gaspard - Menuet [Pieces de Clavecin]
Locke, Matthew – Allman [Musick's Hand-Maide]; Simerons Dance, The [History of Sir Francis Drake, The/ Musick's Hand-Maide]
Marchand, Louis – Menuet en Rondeau [Pieces de Clavecin, Livre Second]
Mattheson, Johann - Sarabande [Pieces de Clavecin]
Pasquini – Aria; Three Arias
Petzold, Christian – Menuet 1 & 2 [Anna Magdalena Bach Book - formerly attrib. Bach, J.S]
Purcell - Hornpipe ZT683 [Abdelazar]; Jig ZT686 [Abdelazar: Choice Collection of Lessons, A]; Minuet Z649 [Second Part of Musick's Hand-Maid, The]; New Irish Tune, A Z646 Lillibulero) [Second Part of Musick's Hand-Maid, The]; Prelude for the Fingering [Harpsichord Master, The]; Prelude Z660/1 [Choice Collection of Lessons, A]; Song Tune ZT694 (Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love) [Second Part of Musick's Hand-Maid, The]
Rameau – Menuet [Premiere Livre de Pieces de Clavecin]; Menuet en Rondeau [Pieces de Clavecin]
Rogers, Benjamin - Ayre [Musick's Hand-Maide]
Scarlatti, D - Larghetto Kp34 + Minuetto Kp40 [XLII Suites de Pieces de Clavecin]
Telemann – Aria [Der getreue Music Meister]; Dolce in D Minor + Dolce in G [Fantasies pour le Clavessin]; Gigue a L'Angloise [Der getreue Music Meister: Partita in G TWV32:1]; Minuetto [Fantasies pour le Clavessin]