Eighth Note Publications Nine Trumet Duets Girolamo Fantini Arranged by Henry Meredith Acclaimed in his day as "King o the Trumet,"1 Girolamo Fantini as born in Soleto robably in 1600 He orked in Rome as a trumeter or the Cardinal Sciione Borghese during the years 1626 to 1630, and then ent to Florence to assume the ost o rincial trumeter to Ferdinando II, the Grand Duke o Tuscany, in 1631 Records in Florence sho he as resent in that city at least until 1675 Further details about his lie have been discovered in the archives o Italy,2 but much still remains unknon Fantini's major enterrise and legacy to uture generations as his amous trumet method book, ublished in 16383 In this manual, hile acknoledging the reviously all-imortant military asects o the trumet, Fantini emhasized, or the irst time, the instrument's artistic otential To corroborate his ne concet o "musical" trumet laying, Fantini resented in his tutor hat constitutes the irst knon collection o comositions or solo trumet Sandiched beteen 70 binary dance ieces or solo trumet and continuo, and 8 longer sonatas or trumet and organ, there are 8 unaccomanied duets or 2 trumets lus a single-line echo iece that can be layed ith one or to trumets (acsimile, 65-71) Cesare Bendinelli beore him had rovided rudimentary trumet duets as etudes or "il modo corretto di sonare il Clarino sora la sonata" [the roer ay o sounding the clarino art above the sonata art] in his on 1614 manuscrit tutor4 Formerly, the sonata (or quinta) art had been the "rincial" or lead trumet But ith the advent PREVIEW o clarino [clear, high] trumetting, a ne voice as added ONLY as the to art o the traditional trumet ensemble5 No doubt the layers o clarino arts got together ith their no second trumet colleagues, and, detached rom their drone-laying associates, they racticed to develo techniques or the trumet's ne ound high register Fantini evolved this idea into a searate class o trumet ensemble iece having equal arts, thus roviding encouragement beteen master and arentice, or beteen to roessional colleagues, to deart rom the military traditions o trumet laying and to aroach the instrument as a musical one, ithout the restrictions to its range or caabilities The resent edition retains the names associated ith the ieces in the original method book or quick identiication and ready comarison ith the original source These names ere robably derived by Fantini or his ublisher rom the surnames o atrons, subscribers, riends, musicians, acquaintances, amous ersonages, royalty, and even rom street names o Florence or other localities6 The e critical revisions to the original music can be gleaned by reerring to the acsimile, or to the list o corrections and additions rinted in the editor's study o the entire method book7 At many laces, Fantini indicated a trillo (tr), and he sometimes receded tr ith a notated groo (such as in bar 8 o Corsi and bars 20-21 o Castaldi) For the trillo in the successive measures, an editorial examle (in the to art only) o ho to execute this early 17thcentury cadential ornament has been ritten out or the modern edition It ould be aroriate to add such embellishments to other internal and sectional cadences Reer to Fantini's on descrition o the groo and trillo in his introductory comments, and to the groo/trillo studies on his age 11, or urther inormation8 ISBN: 9781554726790 CATALOG NUMBER: TE9828 COST: $400 DURATION: 7:35 DIFFICULTY RATING:Medium 2 Trumets enmusiccom
Eighth Note Publications Nine Trumet Duets Girolamo Fantini Arranged by Henry Meredith Excet or the irst duet (Prima sonata a due trombe detta del Corsi, acsimile, 65), in hich the second art is alays loer than the irst, both arts in the remaining duets are much more equal as ar as range is concerned The longest and most varied duet is the Sonata a due trombe detta del Gucciardini ( 68), here e ind a greater degree o rhythmic indeendence beteen the to arts, lus a striking use o statement-andanser eects comlemented by numerous echo dynamics The melodic exchanges beteen the arts in Gucciardini orecast the style o Fantini's Sonata di Risoste detta la Salviati ( 69) This "echo" duet is literally a "sonata o ansers" and can be erormed by a single layer, or as a resonsorial duet, ith the second trumeter laying only the "resonses" For every reiteration at the same itch level, a is indicated, the receding statement to be layed Fantini no doubt meant the echoes at an octave loer itch to be likeise soter This motivically interesting iece constitutes an excellent exercise or accuracy, lexibility, and control Fantini's on dynamic markings in the echo sonata and in three other duets have been retained or the resent ublication At numerous laces similar to those here Fantini used them, the editor has suggested the same kinds o dynamic contrasts These are laced in square brackets, as are mid- volume indications such as In the other ive duets, here no original dynamics ere rovided, judicious alication o dynamics in the same ashion ould no doubt meet ith Fantini's aroval While natural trumets o Fantini's day or modern trumets are the instruments o choice or this edition, any equal instruments that can address the idiomatic trumet riting ould also be suitable PREVIEW ONLY 1 "Monarca della Tromba hoggi egli `e'n terra," [King o the Trumet on earth today is he,] is a line rom an anonymous sonnet in raise o Fantini's talents and one o three such laudatory oems that attest to his skill and ame, hich are rinted on the ront and the back ages o Fantini's 1638 trumet method book, Modo er Imarare a sonare di Tromba 2 Igino Conorzi, "Girolamo Fantini, 'Monarch o the Trumet': Recent Additions to His Biograhy," trans by esse Rosenberg and Henry Meredith, (Historic Brass Society ournal, 1993), 159-173 3 Girolamo Fantini, Modo er Imarare a sonare di Tromba [Method or Learning to lay the Trumet], (Francoort[sic]: Vuastch, 1638; acsimile editions, Milan: 1934, and Nashville: The Brass Press, 1972; English translation, Nashville: 1976) 4 Cesare Bendinelli, Tutta L'arte della Trombetta (1614); acsimile rerint (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1975), 55r 5 Reer to the 5-art trumet-ensemble music and accomanying historical notes or Fantini's Imerial Intrada or laying in ensemble, reconstructed by Henry Meredith, and available rom Eighth Note Publications (Markham: 1998) 6 A ma o Florence reveals street names, such as Corsi, Ricasoli, and Guicciardini, hich ere used as designations or "name tags" or 3 o these duets Such amily names, thereore, no doubt ossess historical, regional, or national imortance 7 Henry Meredith, "Girolamo Fantini's Trumet Method: A Practical Edition," (DA dissertation, University o Northern Colorado, 1984), vol II, 208-210 8 See also the discussion and transcrition by this editor, ibid, vol I, 235-240; vol II, 14 ISBN: 9781554726790 CATALOG NUMBER: TE9828 COST: $400 DURATION: 7:35 DIFFICULTY RATING:Medium 2 Trumets enmusiccom
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