Couperin wanted to hear his music performed with taste, and filled his scores What on earth does Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou les Maillotins mean?. Couperin, F: Pièces de clavecin II: Ordre 6ème in B flat: Les baricades mistérieuses. Couperin, F: Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les Maillotins (18e ordre). Alexandre Couperin – Alexandre Tharaud Joue Couperin: Tic, Toc, Choc – Music. Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les Maillotins (18e ordre). by Alexandre.
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It was a daunting task.
Sentiment rules over thematic discourse. So what score can you reliably play from?
Edited by Brahms and Chrysander, this scan was made from the Augener edition, first published aboutand frequently reprinted. On the piano this is even more difficult because its action is more cumbersome than the harpsichord’s.
Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin (Couperin, François)
The composer kindly refers us to the preface of his third volume of harpsichord pieces for instructions on how to play the piece. So I got the scores to all keyboard pieces by Couperin and began reading them. Some were obviously pure harpsichord material; others were written for two players at once. One of his most picturesque compositions is Le Rossignol en Amour The Nightingale in Lovealthough, as another French composer, Olivier Messiaen, an ardent bird-lover, noted: They are frequently found on the shelves of musicians, despite their expense, and until a few years ago when playing from facsimile became vogue, this quite fine edition was the only way many composers were available.
Those who have a Harpsichord with only one Manual, or a spinet, will play the upper part as written, and the Bass an octave lower; when the Bass cannot be taken an octave lower, then the upper part will have to be moved up an octave. To fully understand his music, we have to relate it to the manners and habits of the reign of the Sun King, and most importantly to the dance. France led the way in dance music, thanks to the operatic ballets composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully and performed at Versailles.
Instead, we must cross the Channel.
Angela Hewitt on the music of François Couperin | Music | The Guardian
There is more to it than that, however. Ornamentation is the very essence of his music. Revival vs historic harpsichord First go at the historic harpsichord First go at the modern harpsichord Harpsichord editions Music Books. This scan was made from the facsimile edition published by Anne Fuzeau Productionsand cyoc it is a direct photographic rendition, it obviously reproduces the elegant engraving of the original edition which was supervized by Couperin himself.
It takes a long time to absorb it naturally into the interpretation of a piece, let alone ocuperin memorise it.
A succession of Couperins held the post of organist fhoc the church of Saint-Gervais in Paris for years It is 33 from The portrait gallery series. Couperin often found that it did not, and became irritated by poor performances of his music. For many modern musicians, we can safely return to the French, and use the Heugel Le Pupitre series, the four Couperin volumes edited in the early s by Kenneth Gilbert. Indeed, it is said that Louis XIV practised the courante for several hours a itc in his youth.
Born in Paris inCouperin was a member of a musical dynasty, unique in France and only surpassed in the history of music yoc the Bach family. The manager of my record company, the late Ted Perry, suggested I look at his music. Playing his music means immersing oneself in a large cast of characters and trying to find the secret to each one. The two never met, although there is some record of a correspondence which evidently ended up as jam pot covers, thus lost forever. Harpsichords Australia Home Page.
Another cohc that immediately strikes us when we open a volume of Couperin’s harpsichord pieces is the fanciful use of titles, many of which seem completely baffling.
The music is crisp and clear, almost sparse in appearance on the page without the expressive goop and fingerings of the other versions. The clavichord was not terribly popular in France.
It was 30 years later that I encountered Couperin seriously again. At the start, I thought I would be lucky to find enough material for one disc, but I gradually fell in love with the music. Fingerings are kindly provided in the usual manner as though we are not couperih or intelligent enough practices to decide our own, and there is the usual expressive goop that pianists seem to have trouble living without.