Almand by Grant Colburn

Almand in an early style by Grant Colburn. Website at:
http://www.angelfire.com/music7/renaissance/index.html and with other composers at www.vowsaeculorum.org.
The composer Grant Colburn was born in Wisconsin in 1966. Always one to search for the obscure and out of the ordinary in music, the late 70's found him taking an interest in the harpsichord after hearing a recording by Igor Kipnis. Shortly after he attended two summers of harpsichord workshop studying with Igor Kipnis at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. During this time he began writing his earliest compositions in a period style.

Since this time Grant Colburn has written and self published four books of period music. The first called A First Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Organ contains his earliest pieces in the baroque style. The second completed book, Six Setts of Lessons for the Harpsichord along with the third book recently completed titled Six Easy Lessons for the Harpsichord are both highly influenced by the keyboard music of Handel's English Contempories. A fourth book is also in print called A Renaissance Miscellany, which in addition to keyboard music also has instrumental music, songs, and rounds ranging in stylistically in time from the early to later 16th century.

Two other books are also in the works. The first will be harpsichord music inspired by the slightly earlier generation of post restoration English composers, and the other a new collection of Renaissance music. Recently Colburn was the author of a feature length article in the summer 2007 issue of Early Music America Magazine on period composition and appeared at this year's Boston Early Music Festival playing his own compositions. He is also active as a member of Vox Saeculorum and a member of the Delian Society. Currently Grant Colburn lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin where in addition to composing, he is an organist, piano teacher, rock musician, and freelance pianist and accompanist.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• grant
• colburn
• almand
• baroque
• clavecin
• harpsichord
• cembalo
• klavecimbel
• allemande
• Cembalo
• clavecimbel

[FoliesEspagne]

Extremely nice to hear and see a great composer and performer in the traditional style. I hope some day there will be a recording of the sheet music. (btw Ernst why don't you use the tag 'clavecin' because you use the new spelling of the Dutch word 'klavecimbel', the English hpschd, the Italian 'cembalo' but with this piece I instantly think in the French 'pièce de clavecin' which is absolutely wrong of course but it sounds very controlled and noble somehow). Thank you so much again.

[ernststolz]

thanks, sometimes I just put some tags and not all, but I added your suggestion.

[GaleoDeus]

What kind of harpsichord is that? It looks Flemish because of the range and single manual, but it has a reverse keyboard and no papers, and that is French.

[ernststolz]

You can read it in my profile. It's french.

[classicguitargirl]

Do you make these in your apartment? I wish I were your neighbour. Fabulous music. Could this be transcribed for gamba?

[ernststolz]

We can ask Grant Colburn, to compose a gamba sonata, or a few!

[alb84guitar]

Marvellous sound

[vipersdragband]

Do you have an email I can send it to in pdf format? Also the Almand is part of a complete suite which is available in a full book I published about a year back...

[barrigudo00]

Indeed I didn't. In that case I'm humbly asking you for it. Please.

[vipersdragband]

I don't think you'll find the sheet music for it unless you ask me for it :-)

[jin10879]

what a beautiful piece of art

[barrigudo00]

This is great! Wonderful piece, sounds lovely and well executed! I have to find the sheet music of this!

[ernststolz]

I wished that too once...

[grantco131313]

Hello FoliesEspagne,

If your hope was actually for there to be "sheet music of the recording" rather than the other way around, there is a score which I could send you in pdf. Just let me know,

Grant Colburn