Charles  Guillet   Vingt-quatre Fantaisies

Charles Guillet : Twenty-four Fantasies   One volume 9½” × 13” 58 pages Euros 44.-

Guillet (~1575 † 1654), organist in Bruges, was one of the great members of the Flemish school of organ, where Titelouze came from, while modality was mooving to tonality.  His Fantaisies follow one of the last classification of modes (Zarlino) which included twelve modes from the scales built on each note of the octave from C to A.  Therefore Guillet provides twelve pieces, plus twelve others on the same modes transposed to a 5th.
 
The Fantasy was a kind of work used by many great masters : Costeley, Raquet, Du Caurroy, Le Jeune.  But contrary to both these latter ones, Guillet wrote his works for the organ rather than for the “instruments”.  Each fantasy has its own personality, using extremely various contrapuntical processes.  At the same time, Guillet shows much consideration for the mode he deals with, and this gives a specific colour to each piece.
 
Guillet published his Fantaisies in separate parts, which have first to be put together in score.  The main difficulty about performing it lies in the countless crossings of parts which make reading difficult and uncomfortable.  For the first time this edition solves the problem by splitting the parts in order to avoid any nuisance, while their original settings remain always explicit.
 
Most of the pieces are planned for one manual, but some of them can take advantage of two, either in quartet (each hand on each manual), or by changing the manual depending of the plan of the work.
 

Contents      Foreword     A Très Havt et Pvissant Seignevr Mr Charles de Fonsecqve   L’Avthevr avs Amatevrs de la Musiqve   Les tons naturels   Premiere Fantasie   Seconde Fantasie   Troisiesme Fantasie   Quatriesme Fantasie   Cinquiesme Fantasie   Sixiesme Fantasie   Septiesme Fantasie   Hvictiesme Fantasie   Nevfiesme Fantasie   Dixiesme Fantasie   Vnziesme Fantasie   Dousiesme Fantasie   Les tons transposez   Treisiesme Fantasie   Qvatorsiesme Fantasie   Qvinsiesme Fantasie   Seisiesme Fantasie   Dixseptiesme Fantasie   Dixhvictiesme Fantasie   Dixnevfiesme Fantasie   Vingtiesme Fantasie   Vingt-vniesme Fantasie   Vingt-devsiesme Fantasie   Vingt-troisiesme Fantasie   Vingt-qvatriesme Fantasie     Critical Notes

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