Playing Recorder Sonatas: Interpretation and Technique
- Author: Rowland-Jones, Anthony
This is a fine book, of great interest to all recorder players, professional and student alike ... There are plenty of provocative thoughts with which to disagree, but this makes it all the...
Playing Recorder Sonatas: Interpretation and Technique
- Author: Rowland-Jones, Anthony
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This is a fine book, of great interest to all recorder players, professional and student alike ... There are plenty of provocative thoughts with which to disagree, but this makes it all the...
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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
- The approach to playing baroque sonatas - some general points
- sound and expression - Handel's "Sonata in G Minor"
- dynamics and Italian style - Telemann's "Sonata in D Minor"
- French style and inequality - Lavigne's sonatas
- articulation and slurs - Herbert Murrill's "Sonata" and Handel's "Furioso" ("D Minor Sonata")
- ornamentation and improvization - Fontana's "Sonata Terza"
- further aspects of performance
- other sonatas. Appendices: "Three Blind Mice" and baroque trills
- suggestions for starting to explore the recorder-sonata repertoire.
Awards and reviews
British Journal of Music Education
This is a fine book, of great interest to all recorder players, professional and student alike ... There are plenty of provocative thoughts with which to disagree, but this makes it all the more thought-provoking and stimulating to read
