Masters & Students
David Clark Little, on the 'Virginal'
Diferencias sobre el canto llano del Cabellero Antonio de Cabezon (1510-1566)
Rowland (Lord Willobies Welcome Home) William Byrd (1543-1623)
La Volta Thomas Morley (1557-1602)/William Byrd (1543-1623)
Worster Braules Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
Canzona Quarta (book 2 from 1637) Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Suite V1 in C Major (Livre de 1656) Johann-Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)
LAMENTO - COURANT - SARABANDE - GIGUE
Aria Quarta (from the Hexachordum Apollinis) Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Prelude & Fugue #7 in Eb Major (Well-tempered Clavier book 2) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata #8 in C Major Carlos Seixas (1704-1742)
[Allegro] - Adagio - Minuet
Sonata K 13 In G Major: Presto Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
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Program duration: 60 minutes including short talks about the music, composer, and instrument.
The histories of the composers on the program reveal master-student relationships, as we trace the keyboard style evolution over 200 years in Spain, England, Italy, Germany, Portugal, and back to Spain again!
'Virginal' is an old term for a string-plucking keyboard instrument, or harpsichord, with a rectangular shape, called such