technological explanation for these differences?
TEACHING CHALLENGES
Make sure to emphasize that in the performance of dance suite movements, repeats are optional.
Make a note beforehand of which listening examples repeat the A and B sections and which do
not. This approach will eliminate potential confusion as your students listen for the forms of
these pieces.
SUPPLEMENTAL REPERTORY
Bach: Orchestral Suites (Overtures) 1–4, BWV 1066–1069
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
SUPPLEMENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Carroll, Paul. Baroque Woodwind Instruments. Aldershot, UK, and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate,
1999. Carroll devotes each of the four main sections of this book to a specific woodwind
instrument prominent in Baroque music (bassoon, flute, oboe, and recorder). Each of the
four sections is prefaced with a history of the instruments.
Hogwood, Christopher. Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hogwood elaborates on Handel’s two
famous orchestral suites, with an emphasis on their historical and political context; see
especially Chapter 3, “Water Music.”
Lawson, Colin, and Robin Stowell, eds. Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of
Music. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999–2003. A useful and
informative series on various instruments and their development throughout the early stages
of their evolution (including the Baroque era). At present, the series includes monographs on
historical performance in general, the clarinet, violin and viola, flute, keyboards, and horn.