Learn to Play Recorder

Lesson 77: Handel Sonata in A minor, HWV 362 — Allegro

  • Play both complete Allegro strains.
  • Keep octave leaps, rests and sixteenths in the same pulse.

Let each return of the opening figure stay recognisable.

Count the eighth-note pickup into a steady quarter-note beat. Keep that beat through the broken chords, octave leaps and sixteenths.

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

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

Practise the moving figures

Play bars 11–12 slowly, counting four even sixteenths per beat and leaving each rest its full space.

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Play: Handel, HWV 362 — II. Allegro

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Franz-Rudolf Kuhnen’s autograph-based edition; CC BY-SA 4.0. Slurs and continuo omitted; repeats written out.

Now play these

Handel, HWV 362 — complete recorder part
Connect the Larghetto to the Allegro.
Handel, HWV 367a — complete Vivace
Compare the effect of a different metre.

When both Allegro strains keep an even pulse through leaps, rests and sixteenths, continue to Lesson 78.