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This Largo is the opening movement of the fourth of the six Op. 7 flute sonatas with bass accompaniment by French flutist and composer Jean-Daniel Braun, published in Paris in 1736.
This melody was first printed in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (Boston, 1883), under the title “The Boss”. It appears to be an amalgam of two old Irish tunes, “Humors of Donnybrook” and “Sweet Biddy Daly”.
Here is another étude from the first book of Ernesto Köhler's Progress in Flute Playing. This triple-meter piece makes heavy use of articulation. It is marked martellato, which translates literally from Italian as ‛hammered’, thus calling for very strong accents.
This Allegro is the second movement of a sonata in B-flat major for two flutes by the German Baroque composer and music theorist Johann Mattheson. It was published in Amsterdam in 1708.
Alessandro Marcello was a Venetian nobleman who excelled in various areas, including poetry, philosophy, mathematics and, most notably, music. This concerto he wrote in D minor for oboe, strings and basso continuo is perhaps his best-known work. Its worth was attested to by Johann Sebastian Bach, who transcribed it for harpsichord (BWV 974).
The central movement, in particular, is a deeply-felt adagio which aspires to genuine pathos. As such, it has been used effectively in many movies, like The Hunger (with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon), The Firm (with Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman) or the more recent The House of Mirth.
This Irish jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's celebrated collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903.
The term ‛fardown’ was used in the 19th and 20th centuries, often by Irish-Americans, to describe someone from Ulster, the northernmost province of Ireland.
Today we propose a little study by British flutist and composer John Clinton. It was first published in London in 1843, as part of his A Theoretical and Practical Essay on the Boehm Flute.