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REMEMBERING HUGUETTE DREYFUS One of the pioneers of the Early Music Revival in the mid-20th century, an important international concert artist and an outstanding teacher. She was loved and respected by all and was responsible for renewed interest in the harpsichord not only throughout Europe but as far afield as both North and South America and in Japan. This issue contains tributes and photographs from forty of her former students, colleagues and friends.
CONTENTS • ‘Many Voices for Many Ages’: Sylvia Marlowe and her Vision for the Modern Harpsichord – CHRISTINA SCOTT EDELEN • Memories of Sylvia – MARYSE CARLIN • Remembrances of Ruth Dyson (1917-1997) – Various contributors • he Role of Huguette Dreyfus in the Early Music Renaissance – SALLY GORDON-MARK • Guillaume Finaz and ‘le Dreyfus’ – GUILLAUME FINAZ • Janny van Wering: Harpsichord Doyenne of the Netherlands – PAUL THWAITES • Semibrevity & Paul Thwaites – PAMELA NASH • Heather Slade-Lipkin: Harpsichord Pioneer – PAMELA NASH • Elizabeth de la Porte: a leading light remembered – PAMELA NASH • A Salute to Lina Lalandi (1920-2012) – PAMELA NASH • Recollections of one morning with Genoveva Gálvez – DIEGO ARES • Women Harpsichordists and the Clavichord:some observations – JUDITH WARDMAN • A Bibliographic Guide to the Women Pioneers of the Harpsichord – FRANCIS KNIGHTS
CONTENTS · Journées de Clavecin en France. – ALINE ZYLBERAJCH · A Tribute: Emilia Fadini ou la Musique. – ENRICO BAIANO & MARCO MOIRAGHI · Some reflections on teaching the Harpsichord today. – J-C DIJOUX · Reflections on the teaching of Historical Keyboards. – BENJAMIN-JOSEPH STEENS · The instruments of Vincent Tibaut of Toulouse. – MARIE DEMEILLIEZ · The 16’ Harpsichord and other oddities. – LEONARD SCHICK · The Medieval Harpsichord. – CORINA MARTI · Conference in Vienna; ‘The Harpsichord in the 16th century’. – AUGUSTA CAMPAGNE · Teaching contemporary music for harpsichord. – GOSKA ISPHORDING · New Music for the Virginals. – FRANCIS KNIGHTS · The Birth of a new Musical Career. – SYBILLE ROTH and Announcements about four Harpsichord Competitions
ISSUE No. 16 – April 2021 Guest Editor – Dr CHRISTOPHER D. LEWIS
CONTENTS · Recording at Home during Covid 19 – REBECCA PECHEFSKY · Celebrating Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – COREY JAMASON · Summer School, Dartington 2021 – JANE CHAPMAN· · Review; Zoji –PAMELA NASH · Early Keyboard Duets – FRANCIS KNIGHTS · Musings on being a Harpsichordist without Gigs – JONATHAN SALZEDO · Me and my Harpsichord; a Romance in Three Acts – ANDREW WATSON · The Art of Illusion –ANDREW WILSON-DICKSON · Real-time Continuo Collaboration –BRADLEY LEHMAN · 1960s a la 1760s – PAUL AYRES · Project ‘Issoudun 1648-2023’ –CLAVECIN EN FRANCE IN MEMORIAM · John Donald Henry (1945 – 2020) – Nicholas Lane, friends & colleagues ANNOUNCEMENTS · Conferences, Competitions and Courses
CONTENTS This is a Special Edition to celebrate the life and work of KENNETH GILBERT with contributions from 39 different colleagues, one-time students and life-long friends.
ISSUE No. 14 – June 2020 Guest Editor – DAN McHUGHwith ELAINE FUNARO
CONTENTS
· Of Keyboard Duets and Chess, in the Enlightenment Salon– REBECCA CYPESS · Jurow Reflections– DAN McHUGH ·Writing for the Harpsichord: one Composer’s View- MARK JANELLO · Cadence patterns in Bach recitative: a guide for Continuo players- FRANCIS KNIGHTS · Taking a Walk with Bach: Interpreting Bach’s 2-part Inventions- PENELOPE CAVE · A musical celebration: Mark Ransom 1934-2019- Various contributors and In Memoriam · Elizabeth de la Porte 1941-2020– PAMELA NASH · Kenneth Gilbert 1931-2020– HANK KNOX and BHS events at Handel & Hendrix- September 2019 to March 2020
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
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
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
