Tune of the Day: Gigue by Mattheson
This gigue is the final movement of a sonata for 3 flutes in C major by the German Baroque composer and music theorist Johann Mattheson. It was published in Amsterdam in 1708.
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This gigue is the final movement of a sonata for 3 flutes in C major by the German Baroque composer and music theorist Johann Mattheson. It was published in Amsterdam in 1708.
This waltz comes from a set of 16 short waltzes for piano duet written by Johannes Brahms. Published in 1865, and dedicated to the Bohemian musicologist Eduard Hanslick, the pieces had an instant success, contrary to the composer's expectations. Over time, number 15 in A-flat major has acquired a life of its own.
You can choose to play this flute arrangement as a slow, sweet lullaby. Take advantage of dynamics to express all its feelings.
This quirky jig appears to be unique to Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907.
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.
This air is the fourth movement of a sonata for 3 flutes in C major by the German Baroque composer and music theorist Johann Mattheson. It was published in Amsterdam in 1708.
This Allegro is the second movement of the first of the six Op. 7 flute sonatas with bass accompaniment by French flutist and composer Jean-Daniel Braun, published in Paris in 1736.
This jig first appears in Francis O'Neill's collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. It is however closely related to the Scottish jig “Teviot Brig”, which was first printed in Nathaniel Gow's Complete Repository in 1817.
Ballinafad (meaning “mouth of the long ford”) is a village in the south of County Sligo in the west of Ireland.