Description

Ornamentation & Embellishment in the late Baroque. Guidelines for modern performances. Features several examples of varying difficulty and ornamentation. This is a very comprehensive volume. Highly recommended.

1. Baroque Ornamentation
2. Musical Rhetoric
3. The Essential Graces
4. Ornaments
5. Trill Exercises
6. Free Ornamentation (Figures)
7. Guidelines for Interpretation
8. example: Handel Sonata Op. 1/11
9. Variation Figures
10. Extempore Variation Patterns
11. example: Handel Sonata Op. 1/2
12. example: Handel Sonata Op. 1/2 – exercises
13. example: Hanel Gavotte Op. 1/2 = Op. 4/3
14. example: Corelli Sonata Op. 5/9
15. example: Finger, A Ground by Mr Finger
16. example: Finger, Finger Ground Figures
17. example: Telemann, Sonata 1ma
18. example, Handel, Fitzwilliam Sonata in d
19. Bibliography