The art of the suite : eight suites of dances / by Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Johann Jacob Froberger, Henry Purcell, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, François Couperin, Charles Dieupart, Louis Claude D'Aquin, Gottlieb Muffat ; selected and edited by Yella Pessl.

Format Musical Score
Publication InfoRCA Building, Radio City, New York : Edward B. Marks Music Corporation/Mark Edition, 1947.
Description1 score (80 pages) ; 31 cm.
Subjects

Other author/creatorPessl, Yella, 1906-1991, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
Included WorkChambonnières, Jacques Champion de, approximately 1602-approximately 1672. Pièces de clavessin, Livre 1. Selections.
Included WorkFroberger, Johann Jacob, 1616-1667. Suites, keyboard instrument, no. 30, A minor.
Included WorkPurcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Suites, harpsichord. Selections.
Included WorkFischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand, 1656-1746. Musicalischer Parnassus. Melpomene.
Included WorkCouperin, François, 1668-1733. Pièces de clavecin, 4e livre. No 27.
Included WorkDieupart, Charles, approximately 1670-approximately 1740. Suites. No. 6.
Included WorkDaquin, Louis-Claude, 1694-1772. Pièces de clavecin. Suites, no. 3.
Included WorkMuffat, Gottlieb, 1690-1770. Componimenti musicali. N. 2.
Variant title 8 suites of dances for piano or harpsichord by masters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
SeriesWesleyan music collection
Wesleyan music collection. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Suite in F major / Jacques Champion de Chambonnières -- Suite in A minor / Johann Jacob Froberger -- Suite in D minor / Henry Purcell -- Suite in A minor, Melpomene / Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer -- Suite in B minor, 27ème ordre / François Couperin -- Suite in F minor / Charles Dieupart -- Suite in E, IIIe suitte / Louis Claude D'Aquin -- Suite in G, No. II / Gottlieb Muffat.
General noteKeyboard suites; for piano or harpsichord. Some suites compiled by editor from larger original collections.
General noteIncludes preface, essay on The Art of the Suite, table of contents with biographies of composers, directions for the player, and table of ornamental symbols "as unified by the editor," in English (pages [1-9])
Publisher number12457-72 Edward B. Marks Music Corporation

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks M21 .A695 1947 ✔ Available Place Hold