Learn to Play Recorder

Lesson 62: Handel Sonata in G minor, HWV 360 — Andante

  • Play the complete Andante, the second movement of HWV 360.
  • Hold each tied note full length and keep the sixteenths after it even.

Keep three quarter-note beats per bar, even while holding ties. Count the small notes after each tie before playing them.

Source: Björn Sothmann (2008), after Chrysander (1879), CC BY-SA 3.0; down P4 for soprano, alto restores G minor. Continuo and phrase slurs omitted.

Drill — a turn

This separate practice turn fits four quick notes into one beat.

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Play: Handel, HWV 360 — Andante, bars 1–8

Four singing bars lead into tied descending sequences.

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Join short sections

Count two bars aloud, then play them; join the next two bars without shortening any tie.

Now play these

Handel: Sonata in G minor, HWV 360 (Andante)
The complete 60-bar recorder part, with both strains and their repeats.
Handel: Sonata in D minor, HWV 367a (complete Vivace)
Sixteenth runs in another Handel minor key.
Telemann: TWV 41:c2 — complete recorder part
Largo, Allegro, Dolce and Vivace; study the complete return to Fine.

When the complete Andante has full-length ties and even sixteenths, with no stops, continue to the closing movements in Lesson 63.