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An important 18th-century instruction book, Couperin's The Art of Playing the Harpsichord contains valuable information on technique, fingering, phrasing, ornamentation and keyboard performance style. Halford's scholarly introduction includes a biographical sketch of the composer, a thorough discussion of French Baroque ornamentation and a useful summary of Couperin's style. The eight preludes used by Couperin to illustrate his approach are musical gems rarely found in other collections.
Part One of the famous Augener edition, prepared by Johannes Brahms and Friedrich Chrysander, presents 27of the French composer's keyboard suites. A rich source of captivating music for keyboardists at every level of expertise, this volume includes the Allemande and 8 Preludes from Couperin's harpsichord treatise, L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin.
François Couperin's contribution to the literature of baroque keyboard music has long been recognized. François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music' updates and expands upon David Tunley's valuable 1982 BBC Music Guide to the composer, and examines the whole of Couperin’s output including the organ masses, motets and chamber music, in addition to the well-known works for harpsichord. Taking as its focal point Couperin's concept of the perfection of music through the union of the French and Italian styles, this book takes a more analytical approach to Couperin's work. Early chapters outline the main contrasting features of the two schools in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-centuries, and it becomes clear that Couperin's expressive power owed much to his fusion of the polarities of the French classical tradition with that of the Italian baroque. The book features a number of appendices, including the prefaces to Couperin's work both in the original French and in English translation, and a glossary of dances of the French baroque.
Series Two of the excellent reprint of the Augener edition edited by Johannes Brahms and Friedrich Chrysander contains all of the 27 keyboard suites, or Ordres, by the great French composer. Includes Ordres 14–27 plus 8 Preludes and Allemande from L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin.
Series II of excellent reprint of Augener edition edited by Brahms and Chrysander contains Ordes 14-27 plus 8 Preludes and Allemande from L'Art de toucher le Clavecin.