F.J.Gossec | Tambourin arr. flute & piano
Channel: PlentyMusic
Date: 2022-11-29

F.J. Gossec’s  #Tambourin arranged for #flute and piano. Improve #musicpractice routines by downloading sheet music and piano accompaniments from the PlentyMusic website. #sheetmusic link:

A short but a very appealing movement ideal as an encore for the competent soloist “well warmed up” and prepared to take a risk the music editor suggests particularly as far as the choice of tempo is concerned.

The dance element is particularly strong in French music and this is a dance inspired instrumental with a sectional structure has a strong repetitive element. The realisation plays back at 118 quarter note crotchet beats to the minute. 

There is a modulation to the dominant key at bar 51 where some attention needs to be paid to playing the correct accidentals.

A performance piece to challenge players to make the step up although the rhythmical challenges can be managed in the context of a performance.

There are some rhythmic options that can be explored in the section 51- 57. The music editor suggests playing the 7 bars first as eighth note or quavers and then introducing rhythmic options of sixteenth notes, sixteenth note triplets and thirty second notes. ( quavers, semi quavers and demisemiquavers!) 

Notes need to articulated clearly and particularly in the final section from bars 80 to 88 players may wish to play the sixteenth note semi quavers with a staccato touch. 
 
A very good movement to encourage playing from memory.

Piano accompaniments are available playing at 112, 118, 124, 132 quarter note or crotchet beats to the minute.
 
Gossec was a French composer and pupil of Rameau although little known outside France. He composed symphonies, operas and is identified with the revival of instrumental music in France. A colleague of Cherubini he introduced and conducted the symphonies of Haydn in  Paris.pdf sheet music scores and mp3 accompaniments can be downloaded from the PlentyMusic website. Beginner, improver, intermediate and advanced level sheet music scores are available for many different musical instrument combinations. Music scores are written and presented in staff notation.  Free scores are available and many scores have accompaniments. Different performing styles are represented on the PlentyMusic website from early times through to classical and popular.