Lesson 59: Major Work Study, Part 3 — The Fast Movements

Play Loeillet’s Allegro and Giga with even fast notes.
Keep their different dance beats clear through both sections.

Bring Lesson 41’s even tonguing to the Allegro; compare its two half-note beats with the Giga’s four dotted-quarter beats.

The complete sonata is transposed down a perfect fourth to E minor.

Your alto staff keeps the original A minor and pitches.

Published: Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, Op. 1 No. 1; Hans-Thomas Müller-Schmidt (2018), CC BY-SA 4.0. Solo line down P4; native alto restores A minor. Continuo and phrase slurs omitted; beaming normalised.

Play: Loeillet, Op.1 No.1 — Allegro and Giga

Allegro articulation

Learn each four-note group slowly, then connect two bars while keeping the sixteenth notes even.

Giga — complete first strain

The Giga repeat is written out here; the linked sonata uses a selected AABB performance route.

Count four dotted-quarter beats in each full 12/8 bar; let the eighth-note upbeat lead into the dance.

Practice plan

First: Read both complete movements and identify their hardest two bars.
Next: Practise each difficult figure, then connect the complete strains.
Then: Record both movements with their written repeats; listen for steady beats and a clear change of dance.

Now play these

Loeillet of Ghent: Sonata in A minor, Op.1 No.1 — complete solo part: Play both complete fast movements.
Telemann: TWV41:c2 — complete recorder part: Compare its Allegro and Vivace; follow the written return to Fine.

When both complete movements stay light and even through their repeats, move on to Lesson 60.