Learn to Play Recorder

Lesson 76: Handel Sonata in A minor, HWV 362 — Larghetto

  • Play the complete fifty-bar Larghetto.
  • Keep written triplets and tied notes in one phrase.

Let the held notes carry the moving line.

Count the opening quarter rest and dotted quarter note before you play. Hold ties for their full length and fit each triplet’s three equal notes inside one beat.

This setting reads E minor, a fourth below Handel’s original A minor.

Your alto staff restores Handel’s original A minor and register.

Prepare the ending

The final B, the fifth note of E minor, leaves the ending open for the Allegro.

The final E, the fifth note of A minor, leaves the ending open for the Allegro.

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Play: Handel, HWV 362 — I. Larghetto

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Franz-Rudolf Kuhnen’s autograph-based edition; CC BY-SA 4.0. Source slurs omitted; playback reads written bars once.

Now play these

Handel, HWV 362 — complete slow movements
Compare the Larghetto with the later Adagio.
Handel, HWV 365 — Larghetto
Shape another complete opening movement.

When the complete Larghetto keeps its pulse through triplets, rests and the final held note, continue to Lesson 77.