Sonata in D minor, No. 4

Composer

Jean-Baptiste Senaillé

Editor

Alfred Moffat

Key

D Minor

Nationality

French


Time Signature

Multiple

Stylistic Period

Level

5

LISTING

Annotation

First Movement

Tempo: Largo

Key: D minor

Time Signature: 4/4

Range: A4-D6

Left Hand

  • 3rd position
  • 5th position on A string – fingered for tone color 
  • Turns
  • Trills

Bowing

  • Legato Detaché
  • Detaché

Rhythm

  • 32nd notes -fastest note value

Second Movement – Corrente

Tempo: Allegro

Key: D minor

Time Signature: 3/4

Range: Bb3-C6

Left Hand

  • Trills
  • Turns
  • 3rd position
  • 2nd position
  •  

Bowing

  • Detaché

Rhythm

  • Mostly eighth notes

Third Movement – Sarabande

Tempo: Largo

Key: D Major

Time Signature: 3/4

Range: A4-Bb5

Left Hand

  • Turns
  • 5th position – fingered for tone color (could be played all in 1st position)
  • Trills

Bowing

  • Legato

Fourth Movement – Allegro Spiritoso

Tempo: Allegro

Key: D Minor

Time Signature: 2/4

Range: C4-F6

Left Hand

  • 3rd position
  • 5th position for 2 measure
  • Grace notes
  • Turns
  • Trills
  • Accidentals in 1st and 3rd position
  • Ends with a 1 triple stop

Bowing

  • Brushed staccato
  • Rapid sixteenth notes
  • Passages of 2 sixteenths slurred
  • Echo phrases

Rhythm

  • Sixteenth notes are fastest note value

Recording

look inside Sonata in D Minor For Violin and Basso Continuo. Composed by Jean Baptiste Senallie. Edited by Hugo Ruf. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Violin-Bibliothek (Violin Library). Classical. 24 pages. Schott Music #VLB 26. Published by Schott Music (HL.49012308).

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