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Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2022
This is a good book for technique, but make sure you want to keep it. Apparently the company will say they issued a refund when they have not.
Baroque musician
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2021
They have over the years expunged most of the wrong notes from this edition (sad, because it was also printed in the Telemann-Werke scholarly many-volume edition of Telemann’s works (not complete works, as it’s a vast repertoire, far more than Bach), in the 1950s. There are still some errors lurking. These pieces are complex studies in genre and musical style, and also take you through the 12 most used keys at the time (they were written for a wooden flute with a reverse conical bore and one key, serving for E-flat or D-Sharp (unless you were Quantz and Frederick the Great, in which case you had keys for both of those notes). Since it’s a tonally ordered collection, some pieces are much more difficulty to play on the one-keyed flute. Also as genre studies, it is up to the player to discern the genre of each moment and to trace the polyphony in the polyphonic movements (in this case they are really pretty daring and more difficult than they look). He really gives only one overt clue in the entire volume. The original engraved edition (the one known copy) can be downloaded from IMSLP.org. Telemann’s engraving at this point had issues in spacing (each piece is engraved on one plate), which made some of it quite crowded). It’s worth downloading it though, especially given the few lingering wrong note in the edition). All of this will be discussed in my annotated edition, which I need to finish… I’m getting a Quantz flute in a few months and we’ll see how the two keys instead of the usual one helps the intonation. My star review is for the edition; the pieces themselves would all get five stars.
LD
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2021
Wonderful music, delivery on time!
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