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Title: Johann Joachim Quantz.(Johann Joachim Quantz: Seven Trio Sonatas, Johann Joachim Quantz: Six Quartets for Flute, Violin, Viola, and Basso Continuo)(Book review)
Author: Michael Talbot
Publication: Notes (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 62Issue: 3Page: 806(4)

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Performed by Gyorgi Spassov, flute Accompaniment: Plovdiv Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Nayden TodorovMMO presents a brand-new digital recording of one of our all-time best-selling albums: Mozart's magnificent Flute Concerto No. 2 along with Quantz's G-major Concerto. Both are masterpieces at the top of the repertoire. An essential album for every flutist! This deluxe 2 CD set includes a slow-tempo practice version of each piece to help you as you learn. Includes a printed music score on high-quality ivory paper; and a digital stereo compact disc, voluminously indexed for your convenience, containing a complete version with soloist; then a second performance of the orchestral accompaniment, minus you, the soloist; and a second compact disc containing a repeat of the full-speed recording of the complete version, followed by a -20% reduced-tempo version of the accompaniment for practice purposes. ... Read more

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Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along is an effective and time-tested method of practicing that offers more than conventional play-long editions. Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along enables you to learn a work systematically and with accompaniment at different tempi. The first thing you hear on the CD is the concert version in a first-class recording with solo instrument and orchestral, continuo, or piano accompaniment. Then the piano or harpsichord accompaniment follows in slow and medium tempo for practice purposes with the solo instrument heard softly in the background at a slow tempo. Finally, you can play at the original tempo to the accompaniment of an orchestra, piano, or basso continuo. All versions appearing on the CD were recorded live by renowned soloists, accompanists, and orchestras. There are no synthesised sounds in a Dowani edition! ... Read more

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Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing Flute has long been recognized as one of the most significant and in-depth treatises on eighteenth-century musical thought, performance practice, and style. This classic text of Baroque music instruction goes far beyond an introduction to flute methods by offering a comprehensive program of studies that is equally applicable to other instruments and singers.

The work is comprised of three interrelated essays that examine the education of the solo musician, the art of accompaniment, and forms and style. Quantz provides detailed treatment of a wide range of subjects, including phrasing, ornamentation, accent, intensity, tuning, cadenzas, the role of the concertmaster, stage deportment, and techniques for playing dance movements. Of special interest is a table that relates various tempos to the speed of the pulse, which will help today's musicians solve the challenge of playing authentic performance tempos in Baroque music. This edition includes 224 musical examples from Quantz's original text and features a new introduction by translator Edward R. Reilly that considers recent scholarship on Quantz's significant role in eighteenth-century musical activity.

On Playing the Flute vividly conveys the constancy of musical life over time and remains a valuable guide for contemporary musicians. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Baroque at its Best
This book is a must for any musicial interested in playing Baroque music.The sections on ornamentation is THE definitive work on the subject.

Great book
Great book of interpretation of baroque music. Quantz show us about the thinking of playing the recorder and how to execute the notes in Allegro and Adagios. Very nice.

On Playing the Flute by Johann Joachim Quantz
I have not read this book from cover to cover.Although, with it's wonderful index, it has provided me with an excellant resource manual for Baroque music.

Essential for players of any 18th C music, not only flute
Articulation, aesthetics, phrasing, ornamentation, character, tempo, practicing, accompaniment, style, notation, how to give a concert, how to breathe when you're nervous, how to play in an orchestra, ... it's all here.This book from 1752 covers the art of being a musician, not just a flute player.

Quantz' text is for anyone who cares about any music from about 1720 into the time of Mozart and Haydn.And it's essential performance practice material for anyone who would play this music: required reading for any serious student.It gives an indispensable window into German, French, and Italian taste.

Modern flautists, string players, keyboard players, and singers can learn a tremendous amount here.The pages about "good" and "bad" notes and varied articulation/tongueing are worth the whole price of the book.They describe the sound that composers were thinking of, the expressive range, the tremendous variety of effects *within* melodic lines.Take Quantz seriously: he was there, and he was a good player and writer.

What more needs to be said, except to thank the publisher for this edition?The previous issue by Schirmer has been out of print for far too long.This book should NEVER be out of print. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1905 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Johann Joachim Quantz: Thematischsystematisches Verzeichnis (QV).(Review)
Author: Mary Oleskiewicz
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 56Issue: 3Page: 694

Article Type: Book Review

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