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Item # PAR0401 Book 1, Partitas 1 through 3 Item # PAR0402 Book 2, Partitas 4 through 6 127(:257+<1(:6 from your friends at Magnamusic Distributors Delalande:Chacone from Ballet de Monteclaire:Airs de Danse Jeunesse For S/T recorders For SATTB/SAATB recorders Item # PAR0103 Item # PAR0411 $19.95 $22.50 Monteclair was a composer of The Ballet de Jeunesse was written between 1683 cantatas, serenades, instrumental and 1689. It is a fairly substantial piece. It is not a technically demanding piece, concerts, a ballet and a well received but it nicely fills a gap in the French baroque ensemble repertoire. The trio and opera, but is best known today for his tous markings show where the basses cut out and the third and fourth lines flute duets, and the Deuxieme Concert for flute and bass. Almost combine into one instrument. Arranged by Andrew Robinson. Visit our website all of the treatises have sections of Airs de Danse, dance tunes, for a sample scan of the score. which are published here for the first time in a modern edition. In the Petite Method Monteclair writes that, "Nothing improves the understanding of the different tempos (movements) and meters Handel: Pergolesi: than singing or playing dance tunes." Fitzwilliam Selection from Overture Stabat Mater Monteclair:Menuets et Contre Dances for AAB SATB recorders For Alto & Pf recorders The Avondale Press Item # AVP0080 Item # PAR0248 Item # AVP0078 $16.00 $19.95 $14.00 Known in the 14th century primarily for Monteclair published two books of Composed in 1741, this popular his comic operas, Pergolesi composed contre-danses and six books of overture is the only work by Handel this piece as his last work , which later menuets but, sadly, only one has in which he specified parts for the J.S. Bach rearranged, melding his survived.Thisisstillovertwo clarinet, and has been beautifully particular style with the baroque forms hundred pieces, and this edition takes transposed up a minor third and and gallant style of Pergolesi. Mr. a selection from each, transposing follows the original quite closely. Tennent, has skillfully arranged this for them to comfortable keys for the 8 page score and parts. the preset voicing. treble recorder. The title pages announce that the dances were played at balls at the Opera; Bach, J.S.: We Hasten With Bach, J.S.: Slumber Now spectacular events for French Eager but Faltering Footsteps Item # AVP0091 nobility.24 page score& parts. Item # AVP0081 For ATTBB recorders For AT(B), Pf $13.00 View scanned music samples and introductions of these and $12.00 This aria from the third movement of over 11,000 other pieces online at MAGNAMUSIC.COM . This arrangement of Bach’s popular Cantata 82 must have been a favorite of Search for your favorites by composer, instrumentation and piece from Canata 78, has been Bach’s because he adapted it many times more. arranged for alto and tenor, with over his career and is one of his most optional bass, part included, and profound movements. 8 page score and Call TOLL-FREE 888-665-2721 keyboard. Score and parts. parts. Email [email protected] Online http://www.magnamusic.com EDITOR’S ______NOTE ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume XLIX, Number 2 March 2008 couple of the pieces in this issue take Ame back in time. I came in the “side FEATURES door” to play the recorder, having studied Setting our Sights on the Heights . 10 modern flute for years. A friend producing Summer Workshops a Madrigal dinner convinced me that pick- ing up the recorder would be a breeze. For a dozen years, that annual event made up The Flute Master: A Recorder Fairy Tale . 20 the majority of my public efforts, aug- by Han Tol mented by arts festival gigs. A lot of pieces 4 we played then (especially Christmas selections) were from Musica Sacra et DEPARTMENTS Profana—music I probably bought at a precursor to the Texas Toot summer work- Advertiser Index . 40 shop (in Kerrville, if I remember correctly). Book Reviews . 22 Since then I’ve snatched up almost any pieces that I’ve seen in sale bins from that Chapters & Consorts . 26 out-of-print series, edited by the late 10 Classified . 40 Ralph Harriman (page 4). There seems to be hope that it may be revived. Compact Disc Reviews . 38 Still thinking of my flute-study days, it Education . 24 occurred to me at one point that there Music Reviews. 28 were many books of etudes for flute (as for other instruments)—but what was the On the Cutting Edge. 19 corresponding resource for recorder? President’s Message . 3 I found a few technique books over the 22 Q&A . 6 years, but nothing that really matched the breadth of Berbiguier for speed and finger Tidings . 4 ON THE COVER: dexterity, of Marcel Moyse for tone (the Peter Jacob Horemans Bits and Pieces: Musica Sacra et Profana editor Ralph Harriman latter studies I found to work well on tenor (1700-1776) Musical instruments, dies; Peter Ballinger completes Telemann edition; EMA Collegium recorder). This issue’s Music Reviews detail from the Luncheon of Giovanna of Lasande. (page 28) include an overview of the adap- Germanisches grant awarded to early music ensemble from Southern California Nationalmuseum, tation of flute studies collected by Frans Nuremberg, Germany Photo Credit : Scala / Vester—a workhorse in the flute world— Art Resource, NY ©2008 plus other music ranging from solo to recorder orchestra, old to new. My flute/piccolo life comprised years of GAIL NICKLESS, Editor playing in orchestras, so this issue’s refer- ences to recorders and orchestras also Contributing Editors resonated with me: Anita Randolfi’s FRANCES BLAKER, Beginners & Technique; TOM BICKLEY, Compact Disc Reviews; CONSTANCE M. PRIMUS, Music Reviews; CAROLYN PESKIN, Q & A mention of recorders in the opera pit TIMOTHY BROEGE, 20th/21st-Century Performance (page 8); a Q&A on how a consort might LISA SCHMIDT, Design Consultant approach playing with an orchestra (page 6); a CD Review of new recorder Advisory Board concertos (page 38); and related items. 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