J. S. Bach, Clavier Concerto 5 - Page 1

This is another old one, so the score quality isn't as good as the later stuff done in Finale... but it is such fun to play! You really have to give it a try... all that delicious shifting back and forth between triple and duple time, and such pungent harmonics - it almost feels like a guilty pleasure. And it isn't even that hard to play, for the most part. The first two movements of this were done in The Copyist, the old DOS-based program I started doing score-editing with, and the last movement was done in Cubase (when I was just learning Cubase... because I had trouble getting it done in The Copyist). My apologies for any visual shortcomings - but I don't think it's particularly difficult to play from. This can perfectly well be played on the one-keyed flute - although be prepared for a work out of your fork-fingerings, given the constant mixture of shifting sharps and flats. A multi-keyed flute will make the intonation more certain, of course... but actually I think I prefer this on a one-keyed flute - the colourings of the notes can be enjoyed rather than fought against... and it's much harder on the fingers, in fact, on a multi-keyed instrument. Strangely this seems to be one of those pieces that just wants to be played, and despite all the timing changes and accidentals it really doesn't seem to require any wrestling.

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.