The Baroque Violin & Viola, vol. II: A Fifty-Lesson Course

Contents

• Foreword
• Introductory quotes
• Questions and Answers
• Part Three
• Approaching the Early Seventeenth Century Italian Sonata
• Lesson Twenty-Four. Stepping Back in Time: Division Manuals 1535-1624. Ornamentation, Module Two
• Divisions - Learning to Dare: Developing Basic Improvisational Skills - Sylvestro Ganassi's 'Fontegara' (Venice, 1535) - Studying Divisions from Ganassi's 'Fontegara' - Learning to Read Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Music from Facsimiles - Note Values
• A Florentine Interlude. Towards 'The New Music:' from Plato to Caccini
• Lesson Twenty-Five. The Noble Manner of Singing: Caccini's 'Le Nuove Musiche' (1602)
• Passaggi - Three ways to Sing a Note - The Intonatio - Con Grazia - The Esclamazione - Transferring Caccini's 'Cor mio, deh! non languire' to the Violin - The Trillo and the Gruppo - Transferring the Vocal Trillo to the Violin - The Gruppo - Transferring
• Lesson Twenty-Six. A Lesson from Francesco Rognoni Taeggio: Applying Vocal Technique to the Violin
• El Portar della Voce - The Accento - The Tremolo - The Groppo - Del principiar sotto la nota - The Esclamatione - La Selva, Part Two - Francesco Rognoni's 'Way of slurring' -
• Lesson Twenty-Seven. Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589 (?) - 1630) Sonata Terza
• The Tactus - Reading this Sonata in the Original Notation Clefs - Rests - Coloration - Tempo Relationships and Proportional Notation.
• Lesson Twenty-Eight. Dario Castello: Sonata Prima, for Soprano Solo
• Lesson Twenty-Nine. Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: Sonata Quarta Opus 4, La Biancuccia
• 'Stylus Phantasticus' - Musica Ficta.
• Lesson Thirty: Ornamentation, Module Three, including Tables of Ornaments Derived from the Sonatas of Corelli and Babell
• A Roman Interlude: Transforming Visual Gestures into Sound
• Part Four
• Church Militant: The Sonatas of Schmelzer and Biber
• Lesson Thirty-One. Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sonata Quarta from 'Sonatae unarum fidium' (1664)
• Lesson Thirty-Two. Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: the Mystery Sonatas. Sonata No 1: the Annunciation
• The Mystery Sonatas: an Introduction - Reference to the Texts.
• Lesson Thirty-Three. Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: the Mystery Sonatas. Sonata No 10: The Crucifixion
• Scordatura - Symbolism and the Jesuits - The Rhetorical Fragments Described.
• Part Five
• Supreme Refinement of the Human Spirit
• Francois Couperin and the Music of France
• Interlude in Versailles: Approaching the Music of the French Baroque
• The Sun King and the Culture of Versailles - The Social Status of the Violin in France.
• Lesson Thirty-Four. The 'Concerts Royaux' of Francois Couperin. Ornamentation, Module Four
• The 'Concerts Royaux,' an Introduction - Couperin's Agremens, as found in the Septieme Concert Royal - The Tremblement - The Pince - The Port de voix - The Tierce de coule - The comma (petit silence) - Notes inegales - Slurs - Pitch - Addendum: The Double
• Lesson Thirty-Five. To Soothe the Sorrows of a King. Francois Couperin: Septieme Concert Royal (I)
• Movement One (no title) - Allemande, Gayement - Postscript: Dynamic and Rhythmical inegalite, a Personal View.
• Lesson Thirty-Six. Francois Couperin: Septieme Concert Royal (II)
• Sarabande Grave - Georg Muffat on Lully's Bowings.
• Lesson Thirty-Seven. Francois Couperin: Septieme Concert Royal (III)
• Fuguete - Gavote - Siciliene.
• Part Six
• Approaching the Galant
• Lesson Thirty-Eight. Beyond 'Beautiful': Searching for Meaning in Music. Handel: Sonata in A Major
• Beautiful Sights and Beautiful Sounds - Handel and Mattheson - Der Vollkommene Capellmeister - Identifying Affects in the Handel Sonata Movement - Punctuation.
• Lesson Thirty-Nine. Into the Galant: Tartini, Telemann, Quantz and Zuccari. Ornamentation Module Five
• Tartini: Grace notes - Trills - Vibrato (Tremolo) - The Turn - The Mordent - Cadences. Telemann's Methodical Sonatas. Telemann's Ornaments: Rising and falling appoggiaturas - Trills - Passing notes - Harmonising ornaments - Turns - Rhythmic variation - Or
• Part Seven
• J.S. Bach
• Lesson Forty. A Brief History of Baroque Romanticism: Bach's 'Sei Solo'
• Lesson Forty-One. Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata I, BWV 1001. Adagio
• Bach's Written-out Ornamentation - The Necessity of Illusion - A Controversial Note - Afterthought.
• Lesson Forty-Two. Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata I, BWV 1001. Fuga
• A Note on Resonance
• Lesson Forty-Three. Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata I, BWV 1001. Siciliana
• Hooked Bowings
• Lesson Forty-Four. Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata I, BWV 1001. Presto
• Bach and Rhetoric - On Slow practice.
• Lesson Forty-Five. Intonation in Bach's 'Sei Solo.'
• The Training of the Ear - Intonation Analysis - Learning to hear quickly - The Training of the Left Hand - Playing Chords: the Left Hand
• Lesson Forty-Six. Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006. Preludio
• Interlude: Bach and the Influence of French Culture in the German Lands
• Bach and Dance
• Lesson Forty-Seven. Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006
• Loure
• Tempo and Bowings in Bach's Loure - Punctuation and Articulation in Dance Movements - Punctuation and Articulation in Bach's Loure - Ornamentation in Bach's Dances.
• Lesson Forty-Eight. Johann Sebastian Bach. Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006. Gavotte en Rondeaux
• Lesson Forty-Nine. Johann Sebastian Bach. Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006. Minuets I and II
• Lesson Fifty. Johann Sebastian. Bach. Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006. Bouree and Giga
• Notes to Lessons
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgements