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Sounding Board Issue 13
ISSUE No. 13 – August 2019
Guest Editor – PENELOPE CAVE
CONTENTS
• Music for Two Harpsichords, the CNM Call for Scores – ALEXANDER BLUSTIN
• Narrative Archetypes in the Biography of Domenico Scarlatti – BARRY IFE
• ‘Scarlatti on the Strand’, FIMTE Symposium on Domenico Scarlatti – BARRY IFE
• Bach’s Inventions & Sinfonias and Keyboard Pedagogy – FRANCIS KNIGHTS
• Tributes to David Evans, Harpsichord Maker- From Various Admirers
• ‘In a Villa near Verona’ – ANGELA GILLON
• Book Review ‘Reflections of an American Harpsichordist’ – PENELOPE CAVE
• Conferences, Competitions and Courses
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Sounding Board Issue 12
ISSUE No. 12 – May 2018
Guest Editor – Prof. Sir BARRY IFE
CONTENTS
• Learn to Prelude in Spanish, from Soler’s ‘Llave de la modulación’- PENELOPE CAVE
• Programming Spanish Keyboard Music Repertoire- SOPHIE YATES
• Scarlatti’s Contemporaries in Spain- MARTA LÓPEZ FERNÁNDEZ
• Granados and Scarlatti- BARRY IFE
• Twenty Seasons of FIMTE- LUISA MORALES
• Review, ‘Chris Hail, A new look at the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti’- BARRY IFE
plus a report and various announcements
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Sounding Board Issue 11
ISSUE No. 11 – August 2017
Guest Editor – PAMELA NASH
CONTENTS
- Rituals to Mould Her With: Multimedia harpsichord at Handel & Hendrix London- PAMELA NASH
- Harpsichord and Electric Guitar: A Potent Musical Alchemy- PAMELA NASH & MARK WINGFIELD
- “Au diable le conformisme”: anarchic world of Vivienne Spiteri- PAMELA NASH
- The Ladies’ Defence: Feminist poetry, composing for the harpsichord & Marina Minkin- GILA CARCAS & PAMELA NASH
- Close Relations: harpsichord and electronics- EVELYN FICARRA
- Les Nuits Sonores: karaoke harpsichords, Latin groove & J.S.B.- GARY CARPENTER & PAMELA NASH
- Gośka Isphording takes up the Reins: Unpacking ‘BoxToccata’- PAMELA NASH & ALED SMITH
- ‘Panorama’: Women’s Part in the Revival of the Harpsichord- PENELOPE CAVE
- Manoeuvering and Finessing: Looking Back to the Masters- PAMELA NASH & ROB KEELEY
- Aliénor: patron, muse and inspiration- PAMELA NASH
and an OBITUARY of Elisabeth Chojnacka (1939-2017) by KASIA TOMCZAK-FELTRIN
and Details of Three Conferences on the Care and Preservation of Early Instruments, their Life Cycle and the Repertoire
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Sounding Board Issue 10
ISSUE No. 10 – August 2016
Guest Editor – MEDEA BINDEWALD
CONTENTS include
- Farewell to Finchcocks- RICHARD & KATRINA BURNETT interviewed by MEDIA BINDEWALD
- On the Beat: directing from the Continuo- ANDREW LAWRENCE-KING
- Instrument choice in the performance of 18th-Century Parisian Keyboard Repertoire- GIULIA NUTI
- Jacob Kirkman: portrait of a little known Composer- MEDIA BINDEWALD
- Facing the Future: a personal experience- KATHARINE MAY
- Hendrix joins Handel in W1- CLAIRE DAVIES interviewed by MEDEA BINDEWALD
- ‘Jacob Kirkman, Harpsichord Maker to Her Majesty’ Book Review by DOUGLAS HOLLICK
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Sounding Board Issue 9
ISSUE No. 9 – August 2015
Guest Editor – VIVIAN MONTGOMERY
CONTENTS
- The Historical Keyboard Society of North America’s 4th Annual Meeting in Montreal- JOYCE LINDORFF
- The 2015 Aliénor Competition- REBECCA PECHEFSKY
- Brandywine Baroque’s Harpsichord Heaven- VIVIAN MONTGOMERY & KAREN FLINT
- Shadow Journey: the new British Harpsichord Society recording- PAMELA NASH
- Annelie de Man: a reflection- PAMELA NASH
- Prix Annelie de Man: a brief view- PAMELA NASH
- Composing and Performing New Harpsichord Music- GRAHAM LYNCH & ASSI KARTTUNEN
- Sound Heritage- VIVIAN MONTGOMERY & Professor JEANICE BROOKS
- Prelude to the Sound Heritage project- KATRINA FAULDS and PENELOPE CAVE
- Announcements- Harpsichord Competitions, Short Courses and a Master Class,
Two harpsichord related Books and finally some Questions for you.
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Sounding Board Issue 8
ISSUE No. 8 – January 2014
Guest Editor – NAOMI OKUDA
CONTENTS
- The BHS Competition Finals Concert, July 27th- PAMELA NASH
- Musical Instruments in a Hostile climate- AKIO OBUCHI
- Eastern Promise- Touring with Melvyn Tan- SIMON NEAL
- The experiences of a Harpsichord player in Japan- MITZI MEYERSON
- Looking for a Harpsichord from afar- MASUMI YAMAMOTO
- Vermeer and Music;
the Realised dream of a music iconographer- SHIGEYUKI KOIDE - Miracle in the Far East- MOXAM KAYANO
- Part 1, Harpsichords in the City of Music, and in Part 2, a closer look at the 1646 Italian Harpsichord- ANDREW WOODERSON
- Making new Jacks using a 3-D printer- MALCOLM MESSITER
- ‘News’ and ‘Your Letters’
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Sounding Board Issue 7
ISSUE No. 7 – June 2013
Guest Editor – JANE CHAPMAN
CONTENTS
- The 10th Anniversary Composition Competition- PAMELA NASH
- The Harpsichord music of Sister Caecile- ANDREW WOOLLEY
- Painting Music-Soundboard decoration- CATHERINE PECK
- An Introduction to the ‘Oriental Miscellany’- JANE CHAPMAN
- Lateral thinking for Harpsichordists- JANE CLARK
- The Museum of Instruments at the RCM- JENNY NEX
- Learning the harpsichord in France, part 2- HÉLÈNE DIOT
- Michael Thomas & the Bate Collection- DAVID MILLARD
- A BHS visit to Cambridge- NICHOLAS NEWTON
- Sound and Visionary- Louis Bertrand Castel- DEREK CONNON
- Celebrating the 85th birthday of Zuzana Růžičková- PAMELA NASH
and sadly- - Obituaries for Mary Mobbs, Stephen Dodgson and Rafael Puyana
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Sounding Board Issue 6
ISSUE No. 6 – September 2012
Guest Editor – PHILIP THOMPSON
CONTENTS
- Come and Play- inspiring the next generation- LORRAINE LIYANAGE
- Review-Leonardo Leo, Le Composizioni Per Tastiera- PENELOPE CAVE
- Pointers in Puglia- a harpsichord study week- ANGELA GILLON
- For the Record- tips from a recording Engineer- JOHN BUCKMAN
- Sweet Serendipity,
The Living Keyboard exhibition in Nice- PHILIP THOMPSON - Learning the Harpsichord in France, part 1- HÉLÈNE DIOT
- Obituary: Helena Brown 1948- 2012- a tribute by Penelope Cave
- Recording on old instruments at Westwood Manor- SOPHIE YATES
- A harpsichord with attitude—an Iberian fake- PENELOPE CAVE
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Sounding Board Issue 5
ISSUE No. 5 – January 2012
Guest Editor – ANDREW WOODERSON
‘What is the future of Harpsichord Building?’
CONTENTS
- News and Letters
- Repairing a Baldwin Electric Harpsichord- EDMUND HANDY
- Closing the Theeuws circle- MALCOLM ROSE
- Music for Four Hands- MASUMI YAMAMOTO
- First Early Keyboard Conference in Edinburgh- ANDREW WOOLLEY
- The perils of playing historical instruments- LAURA TIVENDALE
- Where are all the young builders?- SIMON NEAL
- What’s the future of instrument making?- DAVID LAW
- Copying historical instruments- ANDREW WOODERSON
- Early Music Pioneers Archive
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Sounding Board Issue 4
ISSUE No. 4 – May 2011
Guest Editor – KATHARINE MAY
CONTENTS
- Recollections of an Inspiring Teacher- KATHARINE MAY
- Stephen Dodgson’s ‘Duo Concertante’- PAMELA NASH
- New findings on the possible origins of the Scarlatti Sonatas in
Münster: The role of Antonino Reggio- ANTHONY HART - Honouring Virginia Pleasants on her Centenary!- Dr. JOYCE LINDORF
- The Flemish Harpsichord Society- LUDMILA TSCHAKALOVA
- Trevor Beckerleg remembered- WILLIAM MITCHELL
- Review of Colin Booth’s new book- PENELOPE CAVE
- The Harpsichord U.A.V…an ingenious invention- MALCOLM MESSITER
- Taskin’s scalings & Stringings revisited- Dr CLAUDIO DI VEROLI
- Your Letters….and some of your Enquiries
..and finally the BHS Cake…………a Recipe!
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