Authors: Anthony Rowland-Jones
ISBN-13: 9780198790013, ISBN-10: 0198790015
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: June 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This new book is for recorder players, including students and teachers, seeking to enjoy more fully their instrument's varied repertoire of solo sonatas. Rowland-Jones has selected only a small number of sonatasboth well-known and less familiarand integrates the theoretical and practical aspects of playing. Technical problems are discussed with relation to the interpretative demands, taking into full account the performance practices of each period.
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Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The Approach to Playing Baroque Sonatas: Some General Points | 3 |
2 | Sound and Expression: Handel's Sonata in G Minor | 16 |
3 | Dynamics, and Italian Style: Telemann's Sonata in D Minor | 41 |
4 | French Style, and Inequality: Lavigne's Sonatas | 60 |
5 | Articulation and Slurs: Herbert Murrill's Sonata and Handel's 'Furioso' (D Minor Sonata) | 74 |
6 | Ornamentation and Improvisation: Fontana's Sonata Terza | 94 |
7 | Further Aspects of Performance | 113 |
Speed | 113 | |
Repeats | 117 | |
Fingering and Interpretation | 118 | |
Presentation | 124 | |
Working in Ensemble | 125 | |
Authenticity | 127 | |
8 | Other Sonatas | 130 |
Riccio, Canzona (1620/1: Venice) | 130 | |
Corelli, Sonata, Op. 5 No. 12, 'Follia' (1700: Rome) | 132 | |
Paisible, Sonata in F (c.1700: London) | 134 | |
Schickhardt, Sonata in E major from Op. 30 (c.1735: London) | 139 | |
Anne Danican-Philidor, Sonata in D minor (1712: Paris) | 142 | |
J.-B. Loeillet, Sonata in D minor, Op. 1 No. 2 (c.1710: Amsterdam) | 144 | |
Pugnani, Sonata No. 3 in F (c.1767: London) | 146 | |
Leigh and Berkeley, Sonatinas (1939: London) | 150 | |
Schollum, Sonatine (1966: Vienna) | 155 | |
Some Concluding Considerations | 160 | |
App. I. 'Three Blind Mice' and Baroque Trills | 163 | |
App. II. Suggestions for Starting to Explore the Recorder-Sonata Repertoire | 170 | |
Notes | 173 | |
Bibliography | 203 | |
Index | 209 |