Four Sonatas, Op.12
Composed by Giovanni Maria Bononcini
Arranged for Low Flute Trio or Alto Flute Duo and Piano by Paige Dashner Long
Published by Alry Publications
Includes score and parts
Instrumentation:
- Two Alto Flutes and Bass Flute, Optional Keyboard
- Two Alto Flutes and Contrabass Flute, Optional Keyboard
- Two Alto Flutes, Bass Flute, and Contrabass Flute, Optional Keyboard
- Two Alto Flutes, Keyboard
The flexible instrumentation in this arrangement gives flutists the opportunity for several performance possibilities, all of which can include the optional keyboard part.
Italian composer and violinist, Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642-1678) was well known in Modena, where from 1671, he served as court musician for Duchess Laura d’Este and violinist at the Modena Cathedral. His two sons, Giovanni Battista Bononcini and Antonio Maria Bononcini, were also musicians and composers. Best known for his chamber and church sonatas, Giovanni Maria also composed madrigals, arias and cantatas. In 1673, he published an important treatise, Musico Prattico, “che brevemente dimostra il modo di guingere alla perfetta cognizione di tutte quelle cose, che concorrono all acomposizione de I Canti, di cio ch’all Arte del Contrapunto si recerca” – the way to arrive at the perfect knowledge of all those things, which contribute to the composition of songs and what is sought in the art of counterpoint. These four sonatas from “Arie e Correnti a tre, opus 12” are dated Bologna, 1678. For this arrangement, the alto flutes play in the original key, while the bass/optional contrabass part is transposed. These trios can stand alone, but included is an optional keyboard part.
