Scholarship

Four Suites for Harpsichord by Bernard de Bury: Critical Edition

The first modern edition of Bernard de Bury’s Premier livre de pièces de clavecin has been published under the name FourSuites for Harpsichord by Bernard de Bury: Critical Edition. This edition had its genesis in the doctoral thesis of Ruta Bloomfield called Bernard de Bury’s Premier livre de pièces de clavecin: Critical Edition and Commentary (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Dr. Ruta Bloomfield is the first known performer of the Four Suites for Harpsichord by Bernard de Bury outside of France since the eighteenth century.

Available through The Edwin Mellen Press.

The French Connection: Influence of François Couperin on Bernard de Bury

Dr. Bloomfield presented this paper at both the 2014 Sixteenth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music in Salzburg, Austria, and the 2013 annual conference of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America in Williamsburg, VA.

Please click the link to read The French Connection: Influence of François Couperin on the Music of Bernard de Bury.

Publications

“J.S. Bach’s Aria with Thirty Variations”

Newsletter of the Southern California Early Music Society, Fall 2015.

“The 2014 ICBM Conference Report”

Newsletters of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, Society for Eighteenth Century Music, Southern California Early Music News, and Western Keyboard Association, Fall 2014.

“Bernard de Bury: In a Distinguished Line of Harpsichordists to the King of France”

Southern California Early Music News, 36/3 (November 2010), Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society, 28/1 (Spring 2011), and Society for Eighteenth Century Music Newsletter (April 2011).

Please click the link to read Bernard de Bury: In a Distinguished Line of Harpsichordists to the King of France.