Baroque Dances (Danzas Barrocas)
- Instrumentation
- Cello
- Duration
- 7'
- Publisher
- Composer (self-published)
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About this piece
A suite of three short dances for unaccompanied cello in Baroque style, modelled on Bach's cello suites and dedicated to Mexican cellist Carlos Prieto. The composer calls it one of his early works; the current edition was revised by German cellist Germán Prentki, who recorded it in 2020. The first dance is in 3/4, the second is a moto perpetuo of sixteenth notes in 4/4, and the third is a gigue-like 6/8 with dotted rhythms; each half of each dance is repeated. A version for cello and soprano saxophone is also available free.
Technical overview
All three dances stay in G major and move between bass and tenor clef up to G4, with running sixteenths that cross strings around open-string pedal notes, double stops and chords (including fingered sixths and thirds), trills, and hooked dotted rhythms with marked bowings in the third dance.
Technical focus
- Detaché
- String Crossings
- Double Stops
- Shifting
- Dotted Rhythms
- Slurs
- Bow Retakes
- Accidentals