Sonata in D Major, Op. 5 No. 1

Composer

Arcangelo Corelli

Key

D Major

Nationality

Italian


Time Signature

Multiple

Annotation

First Movement – * Tempo changes throughout and slow tempos have improvised ornamentation.

Tempo Markings: Grave (2 measures), Allegro (7 measures), Adagio (5 measures), Grave (2 measures), Allegro (7 measures), Adagio (12 measures), 

Time Signature: 4/4, 6/8

Key: D Major

Range: G3 – E6

Left Hand

  • Arpeggio patterns in Allegro sections
  • Improvisation: add in scales, trills
  • 4th finger extension in 3rd position to reach E6

Bowing

  • Rapid detaché sixteenths
  • Improvisation – long slurred scales

 

Second Movement 

Tempo Marking: Allegro

Time Signature: 4/4

Left Hand

  • Double-stops – one note sustained with 2nd note changing
  • Triple-stops sprinkled in
  • 12 measures of triple-stops that are realized as broken sixteenth note arpeggios and some triplet sixteenth notes.

Bowing

  • Sustained double-stops
  • Rapid string crossings with arpeggiated sixteenths

*A 2 1/2 measure Adagio at the end of this movement. Has chords that are realized as arpeggiated slurred 32nd notes using 3 strings.

 

Third Movement 

Tempo Marking: Allegro

Time Signature: 4/4

Range: A3-E6

Left Hand

  • Sixteenth Notes

Bowing

  • Rapid detaché

 

Fourth Movement 

Tempo Marking: Adagio

Time Signature: 3/2

Range: C#4- D6

Bowing

  • Long sustained legato

 

Fifth Movement 

Tempo Marking: Allegro

Time Signature: 6/8

Range: A3-E6

Left Hand

  • Double-stop eighth notes
  • Double-stop one note sustains, while 2nd note changes
  • Triple-stop chords

Bowing

  • Rapid detaché
  • Bariolage – 9 measures

Recording

Movement 1

Movement 2 – Allegro and Movement 3 – Allegro 

look inside 12 Sonatas op. 5 Band 1 New edition after the Urtext. Composed by Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713). Edited by Bernhard Paumgartner. Arranged by Bernhard Paumgartner. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 8). Collection, Classical. Op. 5. 124 pages. Schott Music #ED 4380. Published by Schott Music (HL.49004841).

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