J. S. Bach, Gamba Sonata in G major, arranged for two flutes - Page 1

Well, I said I might put up some things for two flutes - so here's one. This is the G major sonata for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord. Basically I've just taken the gamba part and moved it up and given it to the first flute, and given the obbligato harpsichord right hand to the second flute. I think it works quite well and is fun to play. You can hear an MP3 of this on my MP3.COM page - well sort of... there I've used flute and oboe, rather than two flutes, and I've left the bass in and treated it as a continuo. But though, of course, it's nice to have the bass, this does work quite well just for two flutes. This was 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.