Playing recorder sonatas : interpretation and technique / Anthony Rowland-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowland-Jones, Anthony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recorder (Musical instrument)--Instruction and study.

Recorder (Musical instrument).

Sonatas--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.).

Sonatas.

Physical Description:

xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Summary:

This is a comprehensive introduction to the art of playing recorder sonatas, written by a teacher and player of wide experience. It is designed not only for students and teachers, but also for those self-taught recorder players who have reached the point where they feel ready to embark upon solo sonata playing. It aims to encourage players whose experience has been limited to consort music to extend their playing to sonatas by Handel, Telemann, and others, so increasing their enjoyment and skill in recorder playing in all its varied forms. Through this book they will encounter sonatas from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries, which often make challenging demands upon the recorder's expressive capabilities. Each of the sonatas considered is described in relation to its musical background (illustrated by parallels with other arts) and to the performance practices of each period.

Contents:

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

I. 'Three Blind Mice' and Baroque Trills 163

II. Suggestions for Starting to Explore the Recorder-Sonata Repertoire 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-207) and index.

ISBN:

0198790023

0198790015

OCLC:

24546263