Repertoire for dulcians
In the 16th and 17th centuries quite some music has been written
where dulcians can be used.
From the 16th and early 17th century polyphonic renaissance
repertoire many pieces can be performed on dulcians. This can
be done either with a full consort of dulcians or with one or
more voices played by dulcians in a broken consort. With this
repertoire one in general doesn't find sources where a certain
instrument is prescribed. A few sources contain notes by the musicians
where can be seen what instruments have been preferred by players
of that time for a certain piece, but even that is an exception.
In the 17th century this practice gradually changes. More and
more composers give a preferred instrumentation for a piece. And,
we start finding solo repertoire for the bass dulcian, a small
excerpt of that can be found below. With the 17th century solo
repertoire we must realize that it is not always clear when a
bass dulcian or when a (early) baroque bassoon was asked for.
For instance, some of the De Selma pieces go down to low B-flat,
a note not present on the dulcians as we know them. This could
lead to the conclusion that this music was written for the baroque
bassoon. However, De Selma, as one of the famous dulcian players
of his time, could have had a special dulcian with an extended
bell to play the low B-flat, what then perhaps could have been
a prototype pre baroque bassoon. What leaves us with a lot of
questions and almost no answers. The only thing that is relatively
sure is that the baroque bassoon as we know it appeared at the
end of the 17th century and De Selma most probably can not have
had an instrument of that type.
17th Century solo dulcian repertoire
- Bartolomeo De Selma E Salaverde
Primo Libro, Canzoni Fantasie et Correnti, Venetia 1638
Facsimile: S.P.E.S Arcivum Musicum 38
1..4: Canzoni Soprano Solo
5: Fantasia Basso solo, pdf file with score
and parts
6: Vestiva i Colli passegiato Basso solo, pdf file with score and parts
7: Susanna passegiata Basso solo, pdf file with score and parts
8: Fantasia Basso solo, pdf file with score
and parts
9: Fantasia Basso solo, pdf file with score
and parts
10: Fantasia Basso solo, pdf file with score
and parts
11: Canzon a doi Basso e soprano, pdf file with score and parts
12: Canzon a doi Basso e soprano, pdf file with score and parts
13: Canzon a doi Basso e soprano, pdf file with score and parts
14: Canzon a doi Basso e soprano, pdf file with score and parts
15..18: Canzoni a doi Basso e soprano
19: Canzon a doi Basso e soprano, pdf file with score and parts
20..21: Canzoni a doi soprani
22: Canzon a doi Tenori, modern edition: Musiche Varie. Website
(German): home.t-online.de/home/Martin.Lubenow/
23: Canzon a doi Bassi, modern edition: Musiche Varie.
24..57: Correnti, Canzoni a due, tre, quattro
- Philip Friedrich Böddecker
Sacra Partitura, Sonata Sopra La Monica, Straßburg 1651
Facsimile: Cornetto Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany. Website: www.cornetto-music.de
Pdf file with score and parts of La
Monica.
- Daniel Speer
Two dulcian sonatas from "Grundrichtiger ... Unterricht der
Musicalishen Kunst oder Vierfaches Musicalisches Kleeblatt", Ulm 1697 More.
Sonata I: Modern edition, pdf file with score
and parts.
Sonata II: Modern edition, pdf file with score
and parts.
- Giovanni Battista Fontana
Sonate A 1.2.3. per il Violino, o Cornetto, Fagotto, Chitarone,
Violoncino o simile altro instromento, Venetia 1641.
9: Sonata Nona. Fagotto è Violino, pdf file with score and parts.
10: Sonata Decima. Fagotto è Violino, pdf file with score and parts.
12: Sonata Duodecima. A due, Fagotto e Violino, pdf file with score and parts.
13: Sonata Terzadecima. Con Fagotto e due Violini o Cornetti, pdf file
with score and parts.
14: Sonata Quartadecima. Fagotto e due Violini, pdf file with score and parts.
15: Sonata Quintadecima. A due Violini e Fagotto, pdf file with score and parts .
- Dario Castello
Sonate Concertante, in stil Moderno Per Sonar nel Organo Overo
Clavicembalo con diversi Instrumenti, Libro Secondo, Venetia 1629/1644.
7: Sonata Settima. Sopran e Fagotto overo Viola. Pdf files with score and parts.
8: Sonata Ottava. Sopran e Fagotto overo Viola. Pdf files with score and parts.
- Giovanni Antonio Bertoli
Sonata Prima. Pdf file with score and
Fagotto part. Also see www.fagotizm.narod.ru/library_1-eng.htm
Baroque sonatas featuring one or more dulcians
- Heinrich Schütz
Domini est Terra, SWV 476. For 2x Cornetto, 5x Fagotto, 2x Viloino,
4x Trombone and B.C. Pdf file with score
made by Steven Guy.
Domine, labia mea aperies, SWV 271
from Symphoniae Sacrae. For Cornetto, Trombone, Fagotto, Soprano,
Tenore and B.C. Pdf file with score. Also see CPDL.
- Johann Joseph Fux
Sonata a Quattro for Violino, Cornetto, Trombone, Fagotto and
Organo. Pdf file with score
(470 kB) made by Steven Guy.
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