Baroque Suite

Prelude

Key: G Major

Time Signature: 2/4

Range: G#3-D6

Tempo: Allegretto

Form: AABB

Right Hand

• Grace Notes
• Trills
• Many accidentals – G#3, C#4, Eb4, Bb4 , Eb5, C#5, D#5, Ab5, Bb5, F5
• 4th Finger extension C6
• 1 measure of 3rd position
• 4 double-stops

Bowing

• Detaché
• Accented detaché
• Detaché porté
• Grace notes slurred into primary note and 1 slur of 4 thirty-second notes

Rhythm

• 4 Thirty-second notes
• Sixteenth notes
• Eighth notes
• Eighth, 2 sixteenths pattern – throughout

Sarabande

Key: F# minor

Time Signature: 3/4

Range: A#3 – A5

Tempo: Moderato

Form: ABB

Right Hand

• Trills
• Shifting is necessary to do trills in the midst of a slurred phrase
• Many accidentals – A#3, D#4, G4, C5,  D#5

Bowing

• 3 and 4 note slurs
• Hooked bowing not printed, but would help with phrasing

Air

Key: C Minor

Time Signature: 9/8

Range: C#4-Bb5

Tempo: Adagio

Form: AABA

Right Hand

• Trills
• Turns
• Some 3rd position (to ease string crossings, bowing and trills)
• Accidentals – Db5, 

Bowing

• 6 note slurs
• Legato detaché

Rhythm

• Dotted half notes
• Dotted quarter notes
• Quarter notes
• Eighth notes
• Dotted Eighth notes
• Sixteenth notes
• Entrance on “& of 8”
• Some ties
• Ritardando

Gigue

Key: G Major

Time Signature: 6/8

Range: C#4-D6

Tempo: Vivace

Form: 

Right Hand

• Grace notes
• Accidentals: Bb3, Eb4, Bb4, Eb5, Gb5, G#5, Ab5, C#6, 
• 3rd position

Bowing

• Accented Detaché
• Detaché porté
• Slurs over the bar line