Harpsichord Music of the Seventeenth Century

September 28, 2001, 12:15 p.m.
Balch Auditorium, Scripps College

ROBERT ZAPPULLA (Visiting Professor, Claremont Graduate University), harpsichord

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PROGRAM

Louis Couperin (ca. 1626 - 1661)

Prélude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande*
Sarabande
Passacaille*

("Bauyn" and "Parville" manuscripts, late-seventeenth century; * "Bauyn" only)

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Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643)

Toccata decima


(Il secondo libro di toccate [...] d'intavolatura di cembalo et organo, Rome, 1627, 2/1637)

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Ferdinand Richardson (ca. 1558 - 1618)

Pavan
Galliard

("Fitzwilliam Virginal Book", manuscript, 1609 - 1619)

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William Byrd (ca. 1540 - 1623)

Pavan
Galliard

("Fitzwilliam Virginal Book")

The harpsichord, a double-manual instrument built in Berkeley by Robert Greenberg in 1980, is based on seventeenth-century Flemish designs and is tuned at A415 using the 1/4-comma meantone temperament.