PERFORMANCE PRACTICE: FREE ORNAMENTATION AND CLASSICAL CADENZAS

This course extends performance practice to creating free ornamentation for solo movements of baroque works, writing and performing preludes and classical cadenzas. Adagios were considered the most challenging movements for baroque players.
A preliminary knowledge of the first semester course is assumed before students can undertake this course.

The emphasis is placed on performance, learning how to improvise in a baroque or classical manner by first following examples written by the masters and eventually gaining an ability to perform in like manner.

The sessions will include the following:

1.Improvising simple melodies.
2.Observing examples in the literature:
a.Vivaldi
b.Handel
c.J. S. Bach
d.Telemann’s Methodical Sonatas (performance of one)
3.Free ornaments to Adagios
4.Studying and performing Preludes
5.Classical cadenzas

Sources: Music, treatises, Free Ornamentation in Woodwind Music (Mather and Lasocki), The Classical Woodwind Cadenza (Mather and Lasocki)

Assessment: Class assignments and attendance 30%; Midterm exam: Performance of Adagios and analysis of Sonata 30%; writing of cadenzas 10%; Final: Classical Concertos and their cadenzas 30%.

PERFORMANCE PRACTICE: FREE ORNAMENTATION AND CLASSICAL CADENZAS

This course extends performance practice to creating free ornamentation for solo movements of baroque works, writing and performing preludes and classical cadenzas. Adagios were considered the most challenging movements for baroque players.
A preliminary knowledge of the first semester course is assumed before students can undertake this course.

The emphasis is placed on performance, learning how to improve in a baroque or classical manner by first following examples written by the masters and eventually gaining an ability to perform in like manner.

The sessions will include the following:

1.Improvising simple melodies.
2. Observing examples in the literature:
a.Vivaldi
b.Handel
c.J. S. Bach
d.Telemann’s Methodical Sonatas (performance of one)
3.Free ornaments to Adagios
4.Studying and performing Preludes
5.Classical cadenzas

Sources: Music, treatments, Free Ornamentation in Woodwind Music (Mather and Lasocki), The Classical Woodwind Cadenza (Mather and Lasocki)

Assessment: Class assignments and attendance 30%; Midterm exam: Performance of Adagios and analysis of Sonata 30%; writing of cadenzas 10%; Final: Classical Concertos and their cadenzas 30%.

Music, treatises, Free Ornamentation in Woodwind Music (Mather and Lasocki), The Classical Woodwind Cadenza (Mather and Lasocki)

Music, treatments, Free Ornamentation in Woodwind Music (Mather and Lasocki), The Classical Woodwind Cadenza (Mather and Lasocki)