Lesson 78: Handel Sonata in A minor, HWV 362 — Adagio and final Allegro

  • Play the complete Adagio and final Allegro.
  • Play all four movements with a clear change of pace at each new movement.

Give each movement its own pace, and each cadence its time.

The seventeen-bar Adagio writes out its quick decorations and marks a pause near the end. Practise its closing phrase first, keeping trills inside the beat. Then learn each section of the final Allegro before joining the sonata.

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

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

Play: Handel, HWV 362 — III. Adagio

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The Adagio ends on B, leaving the phrase open; let the final Allegro answer in E minor.

The Adagio ends on E, leaving the phrase open; let the final Allegro answer in A minor.

IV. 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
Assemble all four movements in order.
Handel, HWV 360 — complete recorder part
Compare another four-movement sonata.

When all four movements keep distinct tempi, complete rests and connected ties in one performance, continue to Lesson 79.