- Instrumentation:
- harpsichord or organ
This publication contains the transcriptions of twenty
pieces of music as they were programmed ca. 1738 on the
cylinders of two English organ clocks. The clocks—now
known as the Braamcamp clock and the Windsor Castle
clock—were made by the celebrated English clockmaker
Charles Clay; the music was composed and/or arranged for the
organ cylinder by George Frideric Handel. Several of the
pieces are known to be arrangements of, among others, opera
arias and keyboard pieces. Pieces thus far
‘unidentified’ may or may not be based on
pre-existing material. The transcriptions represent down to
the minutest detail (including a great deal of written-out
ornamentation) the actual performance of the music as it
first sounded in the late 1730s. They are playable on, for
example, harpsichord orchamber organ. This publication
contains pieces by Handel not available elsewhere in a
musical edition. The edition is provided with several
photographs of the interiors and exteriors of the
clocks.
- 1987
- ISBN n/a (paper)
- 1 score (40 pp. - 5 illus.)
- 21 x 30 cm
- €18 or US$18