Harpsichord Method - Volume 2

Volume 2 of 10This volume is a transitory phase. It contains less pages, but there is more to do. We reinforce the skills acquired in Volume 1, and prepare the pupil to play more important pieces. We introduce the English virginalists and their ornamentation. The pupil is going to play pieces where each hand plays several notes. We begin a study of Major scales in historical fingerings, introduce historical exercises, and the concept of notes inégales. We also begin a study of Basso Continuo and Diminutions.Contents:

• Bourrée Johann Krieger
• Localizing Notes
• Menuet Georg Friedrich Handel
• Repeated Notes
• A new Irish Tune Henry Purcell
• Exercise Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
• Localizing Notes
• Basso Continuo
• Rameau's Ornaments for this Minuet
• Menuet Jean-Philippe Rameau
• Deux Préludes Jacques Hotteterre, le Romain
• Localizing Notes
• Basso Continuo
• Prelude Henry Purcell
• Progrès de tierces en montant François Couperin
• Basso Continuo
• Almaine Anonymous
• Deux Préludes Jacques Hotteterre, le Romain
• Basso Continuo
• Diminutions and Improvization
• Les Folies d'Espagne Michel Corrette
• Triads