The FitzTanner Collection – Quirky Piano Pieces in an Antique Style
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| Product Code: | 979-0-570-81319-3 |
| ISMN: | 979-0-570-81319-3 |
| Publishers Number: | C319 |
| Difficulty: | Grades 4 – 7 |
| Condition: | New |
1. Pawles Wharfe
2. Lady Montegel’s Paven
3. All in a Garden Green
4. Saint Thomas Wake
5. Walter Erle’s Paven
6. Goe from my Window
7. The Fall of the Leafe
8. The Maydens Song
9. Put up thy Dagger, Jemy
10. Farnabye’s Conceit
11. O Mistris Myne
12. Fayne Would I Wedd
13. Telle Mee, Daphne
14. Quodlings Delight
15. Loth to Depart
16. The Irishe Dumpe
17. The Duchesse of Brunswick
18. The Duke of Brunswick’s Alman
19. Pakington’s Pownde
20. Nobody’s Gigge
21. The Woods so Wilde
22. Barafostus’Dreame
23. Wooddy-Cock
24. The Ghost
25. WorsterBraules
2. Lady Montegel’s Paven
3. All in a Garden Green
4. Saint Thomas Wake
5. Walter Erle’s Paven
6. Goe from my Window
7. The Fall of the Leafe
8. The Maydens Song
9. Put up thy Dagger, Jemy
10. Farnabye’s Conceit
11. O Mistris Myne
12. Fayne Would I Wedd
13. Telle Mee, Daphne
14. Quodlings Delight
15. Loth to Depart
16. The Irishe Dumpe
17. The Duchesse of Brunswick
18. The Duke of Brunswick’s Alman
19. Pakington’s Pownde
20. Nobody’s Gigge
21. The Woods so Wilde
22. Barafostus’Dreame
23. Wooddy-Cock
24. The Ghost
25. WorsterBraules
Mark Tanner’s music covers a wide variety of styles and instruments, and is popular with ABRSM, Trinity College and London College. Around 50 pieces have been selected for piano, brass and woodwind syllabuses. His five volume piano series entitled ‘Scapes’ was shortlisted for the Best Print Resource at the Music Teacher Awards, and Mark’s piano music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.
Mark has perfomed extensively, having appeared on many occasions at London’s Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St John’s Smith Square. In excess of 300 recitals have been given at sea on all of the Cunard, Saga and P&O lines, many with flautist Gillian Poznansky, and his recordings, which have made an especial feature of new commissions and previously unrecorded works, have achieved consistently glowing reviews: “Magnificent playing”, Gramophone.
As well as having published over 70 volumes of compositions, transcriptions and arrangements with various publishing houses, Faber have published six books/repertoire volumes, including The Mindful Pianist (also published in Chinese) and The Piano in Black and White, the latter pitched at the independent adult learner. Mark has published around 50 feature-length ‘Masterclass’ articles for Pianist Magazine and has written hundreds of reviews and articles for a number of leading music publications. He has also published two books on mindfulness for Leaping Hare Press: Mindfulness in Music (also published in Spanish) and Mindfulness in Sound. Mark holds a PhD and Honorary degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
As well as having published over 70 volumes of compositions, transcriptions and arrangements with various publishing houses, Faber have published six books/repertoire volumes, including The Mindful Pianist (also published in Chinese) and The Piano in Black and White, the latter pitched at the independent adult learner. Mark has published around 50 feature-length ‘Masterclass’ articles for Pianist Magazine and has written hundreds of reviews and articles for a number of leading music publications. He has also published two books on mindfulness for Leaping Hare Press: Mindfulness in Music (also published in Spanish) and Mindfulness in Sound. Mark holds a PhD and Honorary degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
He is a member of Mensa, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a veteran adjudicator for B.I.F.F. For ABRSM Mark has examined grades and diplomas for 20 years, having undertaken nearly 50 international tours to all continents. He has also adjudicated the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician.
In choosing to call this set of 25 pieces The FitzTanner Collection, I make a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The FitzTanner Collection…
In choosing to call this set of 25 pieces The FitzTanner Collection, I make a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The FitzTanner Collection doffs its cap in the direction of this seminal ancient tome by borrowing some of the more fanciful and suggestive titles from which it is comprised, but beyond this there is no musical connection with the original pieces at all. And yet, stirred into the mix, is my fondness for melding together bygone musical styles. Hence, this album of piano pieces, pitched at the more robust intermediate pianist, combines quirky originality with older musical styles, drawing inspiration not just from Renaissance dances and fantasies, but from more elaborate Baroque and Classical styles, too. That said, the music is conceived very much with the qualities of the modern piano in mind and hence requires a good many pedal effects, dynamics and plenty of expression. What emerges is, I hope, a collection of attractive piano pieces which cheerfully bear the traces of a time when the modern piano was but a twinkle in the eye.
There is an enjoyable charisma to the Old English spellings of these pieces (as well as a healthy margin for idiosyncrasy, I might add), and to my own creations I have taken great delight in adding a few light-hearted directions, which I trust won’t cause too much consternation. Not all of the Fitzwilliam titles are easily fathomed, but the playful, risqué and politically incorrect overtones are sometimes quite striking, leading me to contemplate a similarly unserious vein in my own writing. To what (or indeed, to whom) you may ask, does ‘Quodlings Delight’ refer? I’m not sure I’d recognise a Quodling if it crawled out of my porridge (and likewise, who the eponymous Barafostus might have been is anybody’s guess). Perhaps, on balance, the music is best left to speak for itself, and regardless of how many ways an old title can be reworked it will always come down to living, breathing musicians to make the music spring from behind dots on the page.
Previously Published by Spartan Press
Former catalogue number: SP1131
R.R.P 7.95
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