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