Harpsichord - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.964508 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Leyandder Trustworthy. Baroque,Christian,Easter,Sacred,World. Score. 2 pages. Leyandder Trustworthy #6331223. Published by Leyandder Trustworthy (A0.964508). Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is a popular piece of choral music. It was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben. It was written during Bach's first year in Leipzig, Germany. Bach did not compose the melody. That was written by Johann Schop. Bach only harmonized and orchestrated Schop's melody. A transcription of Jesu was done by English pianist Myra Hess (1890-1965), and was published in 1926 for solo piano.In 1934, Hess' version was adapted for piano duet. British organist Peter Hurford made a transcription of Jesu for organ. Today, Bach's piece is often performed at weddings and funerals. Bach wrote the piece for voices with trumpet, oboes, strings and continuo. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is one of Bach's most enduring pieces of music.The present version is a facilitated reduction of the theme where it is soloed by Harpsichord and chords. Ideal for young music students in the area, if you don't have a teacher to play along, search for item number: S0.1006121, here is an audio playback so you can play and study with ease and fluidity.

Harpsichord - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.722273 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Anne L Christopherson GRSM ARCM. Baroque,Concert,Standards. Score. 2 pages. Music-Scores.com #6233821. Published by Music-Scores.com (A0.722273). Allemande from French Suite No.5 in G major: 1st movement. An Allemande is a stately dance with origins in Germany. The 2nd and/or 4th beats are sometimes reinforced with ornamentation, or dotted rhythms. For Harpsichord.Edited by Anne L. Christopherson GRSM ARCM at www.music-scores.com

Harpsichord - Digital Download SKU: BQ.979-0-50179-075-3 Composed by Johann Friedrich Reichardt. Edited by Stephen Begley. This edition: softcover. Bisel Classics. Part. With Text Language: English / German. 30 pages. Published by Bisel Classics - Digital (BQ.979-0-50179-075-3). ISBN 9790501790753.German composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt spent many years travelling as a youth and was an accomplished keyboard player. The Cembalo Concerto in the Old Style, is one of his first compositions written when he was in his early twenties and dedicated to a minor royal, Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria, herself a respected and highly accomplished composer and keyboard player.

Harpsichord - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q11355 Composed by Hermann Schroeder. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 10 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q11355. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q11355). Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984) wrote his Sonatina da camera at the suggestion of Prof. Hugo Ruf who had been looking for attractive new music for his 'old' instrument and for his students at the Cologne Musikhochschule. This work is a little three-movement sonata which draws on both the Baroque harpsichord tradition and the classical sonata form (in the outer movements). These elements are combined very successfully with a modern tonal language; with humour and the joy of virtuoso playing getting their fair share too. It is to be hoped that Schroeder's single work for harpsichord (apart from his 'Duplum' for organ and harpsichord, Schott ED 6233) will be played by many performers and included in the rather small contemporary repertoire for harpsichord as a valuable addition.

Harpsichord - Digital Download SKU: A0.962319 Composed by Sergio Roberto de Oliveira. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Score. 15 pages. Sergio Roberto de Oliveira #4324311. Published by Sergio Roberto de Oliveira (A0.962319). Falls House Press has published his works  Faces and Mot pour Laura in the United States. Various articles in specialized journals and sites have cited the composer, such as the Flutist Quarterly (Circus Brasilis - The flute music of Sergio Roberto de Oliveira), Early Music America (Something New for Early Music), Andante.com (The heirs of Villa-Lobos), 21st Century Music, Musicabrasileira.org, etc. Sergio Roberto de Oliveira has frequently been invited to lecture at American universities, and has spoken at more than a dozen institutions including Princeton and Duke. In 2009 he was Artist-in-Residence at Duke University. In addition the USA and the UK, Oliveira's music has also been played in many countries, with invitations for concerts exclusively with his music in México, Italy and Holland (Amsterdam).  The Spanish Magazine Sonograma has published 2 interviews with Sergio.Sergio is the founder and a member of the group of composers Prelúdio 21. The group is one of the most active worldwide. It holds a distinguished place in Brazilian contemporary music, having been active for 15 consecutive seasons, with a permanent series of monthly concerts since 2008. In 2011 the group released the CD String Quartets, with performances by the Quarteto Radamés Gnattali. Oliveira is also a member of the group of composers Vox Novus, based in New York.To commemorate 15 years of activity as a composer, Oliveira released a box set with 4 CDs, as well as a CD with composer Mark Hagerty, and produced the series QUINZE, with 13 concerts including his works, between July and October of 2012.  More than 130 musicians, including 28 composers, participated of QUINZE (CDs and series).His discography includes 14 CDs as producer, 14 as composer, 22 as general producer, 2 as arranger and 2 as pianist. His catalog of compositions includes approximately 115 works for various ensembles, including Symphony Orchestra.  Sergio Roberto de Oliveira is a member of the Latin Academy of the Arts and Science of Recording.He died from pancreatic cancer in 2017.

Harpsichord - Digital Download SKU: A0.1108689 By Arturo Escorza. By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Arturo Escorza. Classical. Full Performance. Duration 506. Arturo Escorza #711337. Published by Arturo Escorza (A0.1108689). In 1993, Frances Rauscher, et al, published a study in which they attributed a temporary improvement (of around 15 minutes) in mental tasks such as those found in IQ tests... Now, my criticism goes further: the piece in question is the Allegro con spirito from Sonata for two pianos in D minor KV. 448 by Mozart, so far so good. If we look at the original score, Mozart does not mention pianos, nor their ancestor, the fortepiano, but clavicembalos, i.e. harpsichords. In modern music, the A4 is tuned to 440 Hz and the scale is divided into 12 semitones of identical distance between each of them, causing that the only pure interval between them is the octave and that the others are impure and cause unpleasant interferences. In past centuries, other temperaments were used to tune the scales, with more pure, harmonic intervals, without interferences, although the intervals between semitones were some larger than others, which is why there are compositions in different tones, because according to the temperament it provoked different sensations, but with the modern equal temperament that's part of the past... the equal temperament killed the harmony and the colors of the music as its composers imagined it, as they heard it. What's this all about? to which I have recorded the piece of the supposed Mozart Effect approaching what Mozart had in mind: with two harpsichords, both with the A4 tuned to 421.6 hz, according to the Steiner tuning fork, used at the time of composition of the piece in Vienna, (note: it's not enough to tune the A4 but also to tune the intervals), and tuned in the Kirnberger III temperament. Some intervals may seem out of tune to modern ears, but it is one of so many historical temperaments used in those times.

Harpsichord - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.862562 Composed by Trad. French carol. Arranged by Michael Bomier. 20th Century,Christmas,Contemporary,Instructional. Score. 2 pages. Michael Butkus-Bomier #4427. Published by Michael Butkus-Bomier (A0.862562). A familiar song or tune is one of the best way to introduce a modern or at least unfamiliar way of playing the piano. Here is a spritely carol with a very specific set of musical parameters that belies its flowing sound. The right hand melody, so familiar to many of us, with its melismatic phrases, is set in fifths and fourths ONLY. the accompaniment, in the left hand bass, is octaves and fifths, filled in at the top of the bottom with a whole step. A very restricted set of materials, yet they complement the song in its simplicity and verve. This arrangement is NOT as suitable for vocal accompaniment as the others in the series. Melismas in 5ths, not easy to sing along with. But, fun to play! MBB.

Harpsichord - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1101557 By Johann Sebastian Bach. By Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Johann Sebastian Bach. Baroque,Classical,Instructional,Multicultural,World. Score. 46 pages. Gabriel Vinicius #704937. Published by Gabriel Vinicius (A0.1101557). Johann Sebastian Bach composed his Harpsichord Concerto no. 6 in 1738. The work has a span of three movements, and it is in the key of F major. Like many of his Harpsichord Concertos, this was actually an arrangement of a piece for a melodic instrument, in this case of the Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 (BWV 1049) which features a violin and two recorders. Leaving the flute parts unchanged, Bach wrote the harpsichord part as a combination of the violin material from the original concerto and a written-out continuo. The concerto was first published in 1851.

Harpsichord - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533624 Composed by Carson Cooman. Baroque,Concert,Standards. Score. 7 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3033383. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533624). I. (Fantastico molto)II. (Lento expressivo)III. (Presto flessibile)These preludes take their notational inspiration for the unmeasured preludes of the French 17th century clavencist tradition, particularly those of Louis Couperin (C. 1626-1661), who is credited with having invented the genre.  Though all pithces are precisely specified, many aspects of coordination, duration and phrasing are left entirely to the performer.