Lesson 60: Major Work Study, Part 4 — Performance and Recording
- Play all four Loeillet movements in one sitting at steady speeds.
- Record, listen back and choose three useful changes.
Let the recording guide your next practice.
Join Lessons 57–59’s movements at speeds that keep phrases and dance beats clear.
Play: the run-through — the whole sonata
Check the recording volume, then play all four movements with pauses:
- First Adagio → Allegro
- Hear the Allegro’s new beat before starting.
- Allegro → Adagio
- Let the fast movement end before preparing the slow beat.
- Adagio → Giga
- Hear the Giga’s dance beat before its upbeat.
Keep going after mistakes.
Listening to the recording
Listen once without the score for shape, then with it for places to improve.
- Beat: where did you rush or slow down?
- Phrases: could you hear their beginnings and endings?
- Mood: did the movements sound different?
The three-item fix list
Practise three changes before recording again, for example:
- Keep the first Adagio’s last phrase ending in time.
- Make the Allegro’s bar-2 scale even.
- Use consistent slurs in the Giga.
Memorisation
Check each opening from memory against the score.
Now play these
- Loeillet of Ghent: Sonata in A minor, Op. 1 No. 1 — complete solo part
- Record the complete sonata twice over two weeks and compare.
- Pepusch: Sonata Op. 1 No. 1 — complete
- Test the four-stage procedure on its complete contrasting movements.
When the complete recording has steady beats and clear phrases after practising three changes, move on to Lesson 61.