Bray Baroque books

Please find listed below all the Bray Baroque books currently available. The author is
Dr. Claudio Di Veroli. We intend to add books on music by other authors in the future.

Clicking below on the cover of any book brings you to the book's website.  

Playing the Baroque Harpsichord - 4th ed., 2022

A full coverage of Baroque interpretation for the harpsichord and also the clavichord and organ. It includes essays endorsed by leading performers, with thorough guidance about ornamentation, articulation, tempi, registration, rhytmical alteration and further topics. This edition carries a complete history of the harpsichord.

Playing Baroque Music on the Piano - 2017

A full coverage of Baroque interpretation for the modern piano player. It includes a discussion of the approach to stylish interpretation of Baroque music on the piano, and thorough guidance about ornamentation, articulation, tempi, dynamics and rhytmical alterations. A complete history of stringed keyboard instruments is included.

Baroque Keyboard Fingering: a Method - 8th ed., 2020

The most comprehensive work in the field, with a full reconstruction of the mid-to-late Baroque fingering system. An earlier edition was endorsed by the late Igor Kipnis. Scales and other passages are resolved with 54 fingering Rules, based on original fingerings from the Baroque era.

Baroque Keyboard Masterpieces Fingered with Baroque Technique - 2012

A comprehensive set of Baroque keyboard pieces, fully fingered according to the principles expounded in the book Baroque Keyboard Fingerings: A Method. The scores range from easy to advanced and cover most of the technical difficulties and tonalities found in the Baroque repertoire.

F. Couperin's Pieces de Clavecin Fingered with Baroque Technique, vol. I - 2015

Complete Ordres 1, 6, 8 and 11. This is the first published score fully fingered as per the composer's treatise L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin. A 36-page introduction covers the editorial method and includes, for every piece, information about the fingering, suggestions for interpretation and the correction of errors in the score.

J.S. Bach's Six Keyboard Partitas with Baroque Fingerings and a Performance Guide - 2015

First published score fully fingered with the technique in use in the composer's milieu.
A 58-page introduction covers the editorial method, informations about the fingering, suggestions for interpretation and the correction of errors in Bach's original edition.

J.S. Bach's Six Keyboard French Suites with Baroque Fingerings and a Performance Guide - 2019

First published score fully fingered with the technique in use in the composer's milieu.
A 34-page introduction covers the editorial method, informations about the fingering, suggestions for interpretation and the correction of errors in sources and editions.

Handel's Eight Great Harpsichord Suites with Baroque Fingerings and a Performance Guide - 2020

This is the first published score fully fingered with the technique in use in the composer's milieu. A 59-page introduction covers the editorial method, Handel 's fingering technique, instrument, tuning, registration, suggestions for interpretation and the correction of errors in sources and editions.

Handel's Water Music Arranged for Solo Keyboard, with Fingered and Unfingered Scores - 2021

This edition reproduces faithfully—as much as it is possible on the keyboard—the original orchestral score. A 35-page essay covers the editorial method, fingerings, instruments and suggestions for the interpretation on the harpsichord, organ and piano.

Domenico Scarlatti: 12 Sonatas from the Essercizi Fingered with Baroque Technique - 2nd. ed., 2018

First published score fully fingered with the technique in use in the composer's milieu.
Includes explanations about the original edition, ornaments, instruments, the editorial process and the fingerings added in this edition.

Unequal Temperaments: Theory, History and Practice - 5th. ed., 2021

499 pages and 366 figures with the latest findings in the field. PART ONE provides the acoustical background, covers each one of the main temperaments and ends with a full HISTORICAL SURVEY. PART TWO consists of directions for the practice of the diverse unequal temperaments in keyboard, string and wind instruments. PART THREE covers multiple divisions and the analysis of historical sources.