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sags_3
Trying to ornament Telemann sonata in F minor for flute, originally for recorder.

Any advice on how to ornament what is quite simple music to make it sound quite authentic? There aren't that many recordings around on CD and none at all on itunes that I can use as a guide sad.gif

Maybe the recorder players can help...... Is there any special ways of ornamenting in baroque music that could be imitated on the flute?
anacrusis
For a huge guide on many matters baroque, the place to look is a flute text, as it happens smile.gif ! Quantz wrote it, and irritatingly my well-thumbed copy is hiding from me at the moment - so I can't remember the exact title. Something like Principles of Playing on the Flute... it has lots of ideas for ornamentation, also for performance practice of the time, and because it is written in short sections, ideal for dipping into. Music libraries should have it, and it is also available in some bookshops - certainly our branch of Blackwells here in Edinburgh had it in stock some time back. Alternatively the AB text on playing baroque music has some advice. Listening to other baroque music, played by early music specialists, will also help - there are certainly CDs of recorder players playing Telemann, because he's one of our main composers.
Andy-piano-flute
QUOTE(sags_3 @ Feb 21 2007, 02:44 PM) *

Trying to ornament Telemann sonata in F minor for flute, originally for recorder.

Any advice on how to ornament what is quite simple music to make it sound quite authentic? There aren't that many recordings around on CD and none at all on itunes that I can use as a guide sad.gif

Maybe the recorder players can help...... Is there any special ways of ornamenting in baroque music that could be imitated on the flute?

Maybe look at Telemann's methodical sonatas in E min & D maj - they show how he intended his sonatas to be ornamented
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