The Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) was composed by George Frideric Handel, for solo keyboard (harpsichord), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred to as Suite de pièces Vol. 2 No. 4. It was first published in 1733.[citation needed]
Movements
editThe work consists of five movements:
| Movement | Type | Grove[1] reference |
Händel-Gesellschaft reference |
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe reference |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prelude | 107 | xlviii, 149 | The prelude did not appear in the first edition published by John Walsh[2] and was taken from Handel's keyboard suite HWV 428. HWV 561 is another version of the prelude.[citation needed] | |
| 2 | Allemande | 108 | ii, 81 | iv/5, 29 | |
| 3 | Courante | 109 | ii, 82 | iv/5, 30 | |
| 4 | Sarabande | 110 | ii, 82 | iv/5, 31 | theme with two variations. |
| 5 | Gigue | 111 | ii, 83 | iv/5, 33 |
In popular culture
editThe Sarabande was used in an orchestral arrangement for the Stanley Kubrick period drama film Barry Lyndon (1975).[3]
It was used for the funeral of a Venetian printer in James Burke's Connections.
The Sarabande was quoted by Joe Hisaishi in the song "Nausicaä · Requiem" from his score for Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 animated film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Dutch singer Petra Berger used the Sarabande as the musical setting for her song about Mary, Queen of Scots, "Still a Queen (In My End Is My Beginning)", from her album Eternal Woman (2001).[citation needed]
In 2002, the sarabande was used in the so-called "Odyssey" commercial for Levi's. [4]
The Sarabande was featured in the episode "Warp and Weft" (2017; S02E03) of the second season of the ITV period drama TV series Victoria.[5]
An orchestral version of the Sarabande was used on the first episode of The ABC Murders (2018), a television mini-series based on the Agatha Christie novel The A.B.C. Murders (1936), starring John Malkovich as Poirot. [citation needed]
Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish uses it to accompany his 'found poem' section in every episode, performed by the Billroth String Quartet/Ensemble.[6]
Danish DJ Christian Steen Jensen (alias Camena) used the Sarabande in his release (2006)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hicks, Anthony (2001). "Handel, George Frideric". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. x (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 804.
- ^ Handel's Publisher, John Walsh, His Successors, and Contemporaries The Musical Quarterly Vol. 6, No. 3, Jul., 1920 Published by: Oxford University Press
- ^ Keech, Andrew (2006). "Reel Chill: Cinematic Chillout Album". Archived from the original on 25 March 2006. Retrieved 11 February 2006.
- ^ "World's best ads ever #6: Levi's makes dreams out of jeans with 'Odyssey'". The Drum. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ^ Tunefind (10 September 2017). "Season 2 - E3 - Warp and Weft". Tunefind.
Keyboard Suite No. 4 in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande (Orch. Hale) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Alexander Briger
- ^ "The Billroth String Quartet | Music Department, Soundtrack". IMDb. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
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