Lesson 42: Baroque Sonata Allegro Movement

• Join the first three bars of Telemann’s fast section.
• Keep the sixteenth notes even through changing fingerings.

Complete sections teach continuity.

Telemann’s first movement alternates slow and fast sections; learn the first three bars of its first Allegro now.

Stop before the fourth bar, where the range rises; return for the complete section after Lessons 49–50.

Method

1. Read the first bar slowly; notice the scale and the note that keeps returning.
2. Practise bars 2 and 3 alone, then join all three bars.
3. Keep each group of four sixteenth notes inside one beat.
4. Compare paired tonguing with slurred pairs; add speed only while notes stay even.

Play: Telemann, TWV 41:C5 — first Allegro

Soprano G major, down a fourth; the section closes on its dominant, D.

Original C major on your alto staff; the section closes on its dominant, G.