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The study in G major we present today was kindly contributed by flutists Nilson and Cinthia Mascolo from Brazil. It is the fourth piece from their 17 Estudos para Flauta Transversal, N. 1.
This is the first movement from the fifth of Telemann's Sonates sans Basse à deux Flutes traverses, ou à deux Violons, ou à deux Flutes à bec, or “Sonatas without Bass for Two Transverse Flutes, or Two Violins, or Two Recorders”.
Here is the second movement of Benedetto Marcello's Sonata in D minor for recorder and basso continuo. This binary-form Allegro is still in the key of D minor, even if the key signature used by the composer does not match modern practice. In fact, baroque music in minor keys was often written with a key signature with fewer flats than we now associate with their keys.
This 9/8-time jig was taken from Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. It had previously been entered, in a very similar form, into the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Canon James Goodman, who collected from musicians in County Cork, Ireland.
At its core, however, this melody is much older, almost certainly having derived from a Scottish 6/8-time jig known as “Binny's Jig”, which is found in the Blaikie Manuscript of 1692.
This is the sixteenth study from German flutist and composer Caspar Kummer's 32 Etudes amusantes et instructives, Op. 129, first published in 1858.
This Largo in E minor is the sixth movement from Belgian Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Loeillet's second book of Six sonatas of two parts, made on purpose for two German flutes, first published in London in 1720.
Thanks to Joyce Kai for contributing this piece!
The Estudiantina Waltz, also known as the “Band of Students” Waltz, is an arrangement made in 1883 by French composer Emile Waldteufel, based on a melody composed in 1881 by Paul Lacome.
The main melody is universally recognized by Americans of a certain age as the Rheingold Beer jingle that ran in the 1950s. Ironic that this melody, which many remember as the quintessential German Beer Hall tune, is actually of French, rather than German, origin; and was known as a French student song at first, then became famous as a piano duet, before it ever was heard in its now-familiar orchestral setting.
Thanks to Marina for suggesting this piece!