J. S. Bach, first Suite for Unaccompanied Cello - Page 1

Bach's suites for unaccompanied cello lend themselves to playing on the unaccompanied flute perhaps more readily than anything else he wrote (except, obviously, the Partita in A for unaccompanied flute, and perhaps the Flute Sonata in C, which may have originally been written to be played unaccompanied...) And this first suite is probably the most readily adapted to the flute of all of them. You can actually play them from the original bass clef cello music quite easily, just by assuming a treble clef and mentally applying a key change... but I did eventually get around to making my own music, which makes things a little easier. Again done in Finale.

The music is in the form of a GIF graphic, so you don't need any special software for it - just save the image below to your hard-disk and print it later with any graphics package (or you can even print the music directly from your browser - just right-click on the music image and select 'View Image' from the pop-up menu so you're looking at just the music itself without the rest of the page, then select 'Print' from your browser's File menu - then hit the 'Back' button in your browser to return to the page).

If you would like a higher resolution version of this music, or have any comments or questions at all, please drop me a line at xorys@idirect.ca - I'd be pleased to hear from you.