Asclepius Editions
Catalogue
Our editions are available from Amarilli Books
On each edition the ISMN is the
International Standard Music Number.
Carl Friedrich Abel - Six Sonatas for Two Violas da Gamba from The Countess of Pembroke’s Music Book.
*** This best selling collection of Sonatas is now in its third edition ***
These are not the six easy sonatas that have been readily available from other publishers (e.g. Barenreiter Hortus Musicus 39) for some years. They are from the relatively little known collection of Elizabeth Pembroke, wife of the 10th Earl Pembroke. Elizabeth was a pupil of Abel and these sonatas have a valuable didactic content. The simple bass accompaniment was probably intended for an instrument other than a keyboard – most likely another gamba, but was otherwise unspecified. The sonatas are some of the most attractive examples of Abel's pre classical or ‘galant’ style. More information is included in the preface to the edition. Score and separate parts. (solo & basso)
£24.00 (British Pounds)
ISMN = M 708006 07 7
Carl Friedrich Abel - Sonatas for Two Violas da Gamba from The Countess of Pembroke’s Music Book
VOLUME 2
Six more sonatas of exceptional lyrical beauty, generally easier than those in volume 1. This is a companion volume to the above. Score and separate parts.
£19.20 (British Pounds)
ISMN = M 708006 04 6
Mr Chetwoode - Four fantasias for three viols
These four delightful fantasias constitute the complete known viol works of Mr Chetwoode. They are very appealing and relatively easy. Score and three parts (treble, tenor, bass).
£10.80 (British Pounds)
ISMN = M 708006 02 2
currently unavailable
John Sheppard - Three motets transcribed for three viols
These motets are well suited to renaissance viols, low consorts or consorts with two basses. Includes Illustrissima omniumwhich appears in lute tablature in Lbl Add. 29246. Lute tablature is included in the edition. These pieces make exceptionally beautiful viol consort music, successfully exploiting low sonorities rarely explored, and are very good short concert pieces. Score and three parts (tenor/bass, bass, bass – and – treble, tenor/bass, bass)
Includes Latin translation by Dr Cedric Littlewood.
£10.80 (British Pounds)
ISMN = M 708006 03 9
currently unavailable
Giovanni Battista Conforti - Four Ricercari from Il primo libro de ricercari (1558) for Three / Four Viols
Ricercari for three and four viols in the 2nd, 4th, 7th, and 8th modes. Relatively long pieces, rich modal polyphony. Score and four parts (treble, treble, tenor, bass)
£14.50 (British Pounds)
unavailable
ISMN = M 708006 05 3
currently unavailable
Gioseffo Zarlino - Twelve bicinia on the modes from Le Istitutioni Harmoniche (1558), for two Viols
From Le Istitutioni Harmoniche, 1558. For treble and bass, or two bass viols. Beautiful and edifying transparent two-part modal compositions. Technically easy. Highly recommended. Edition includes two scores allowing a choice of instruments and clefs.
£16.00 (British Pounds)
unavailable
ISMN = M 708006 06 0
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Joseph Fiala (1748-1816) - Sonata in G major & Concertino in D major, for Viola da Gamba, Violin, & ‘Cello, with optional harpsichord continuo.
Edited and realized by Dr David J Rhodes.
Two works from the late viola da gamba repertoire. Fiala was a close friend of the Mozart family and Kapellmeister to Prince Fürstenberg. The Sonata is in three movements and the Concertino in four. The Concertino in D in particular provides many opportunities for showy virtuosic displays on the gamba, and in one bar utilizes an arpeggio on harmonics well above the end of the fingerboard. Despite the extrovert nature of these compositions, the gamba part in both pieces remains very practical to play.
£25.00 (British Pounds)
ISMN = M 708006 10 7
currently unavailable
Songs, Airs, and Dances from the London Concerts, 1773. For soprano voice and instruments.
FACSIMILE of the original music sheets (original set incomplete)
Sixteen songs and nine instrumental pieces
£8.00 (British Pounds)
ISMN = M 708006 11 4
John Stanley - Six solos for a German flute, Violin or Harpsichord, with Basso Continuo, 1745.
FACSIMILE of the original
£8.65 (British Pounds)
ISMN = M 708006 12 1