Showing posts with label Bach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bach. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2012

14th Annual Baroque Flute Boot Camp, July 29-August 4, 2012

Alert the media! 


BFBC XIV: July 29-August 4, 2012, in Seattle, at Seattle Pacific University. 


The website will be updated soon. 


For you past participants, we will be using the same workbook as last year. 


Watch this space for details and updates. 


More information to follow. Soon! 


Thank you. 


-- The Management

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The work continues (or, "if it were easy, anyone could do it")

Thanks again, everyone, for yet another fantastic week of Baroque Flute Boot Camp, Angst Factory, and Catharsis Clinic. I had a great time and love to see the changes in playing from year to year from individuals and from the group.

On the Facebook BFBC group I announced that I would be posting items for practice, in the manner of the "Quantz of the Week.." It could be just about anything, from the Bach of the Week, the Braun of the Week, the Blavet of the Month, or just about anything else, including, but not limited to, the Anderson Etude of the Week.

I just uploaded some files to the PB Works site. If you don't have them already, now is the time to get them. I'll be closing down the site for the winter and spring, as I always do, which means I'll remove your email from the site. I'll let you know when that will happen, probably not before Thanksgiving, so you can have enough time to finish any downloading you have been considering. I'll put a notice here, on the FB page, and on the wiki itself.

To start our Weekly Workout, I propose the following:

Hotteterre, Preludes 1-3 on page 6 of L'art de preluder (the facsimile, in French Violin Clef);
J D Braun, Rondeau, Giga, and Menuetto on pages 6-7 of the pieces sans basse (found on the wiki).

Those feeling particularly courageous should take the Rondeau in both keys (e-minor, g-minor; just switch to the French Violin Clef to get the g-minor/bassoon version).

More as it happens.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Baroque Flute Boot Camp XIII

Yep. It's time again to start getting ready for the Thirteenth Annual Baroque Flute Boot Camp in Seattle, Washington. 24-30 July 2011.

Thirteen? Really? Seems like we just started.

The crew for 2011:

Flutes: Kim Pineda, Janet See
Continuo: Gus Denhard, theorbo; Don Simons, harpsichord

And below are photos from BFBC XII (2010).



















Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Reading List (Yes, I cracked under pressure)

I've uploaded to the wiki some excerpts from Friedrich Niedt's Musical Guide. It is a thoroughbass guide but because I'm always harping on flute players to learn the bass parts to their sonatas, this could be valuable to some players, IF they decide to take the UberGeek challenge and actually read it.

NB: This is hardcore History of Music Theory/Historical Performance Practice stuff, for the non-music major flute player.

I'll also post a slightly earlier French theorists guide for thoroughbass as well.