Six Baroque Sonatas for the Archlute (Christofero Dalitio, 1998)
- Instruments: solo archlute or 10-course Renaissance lute
- Composer: Christoph Dalitz
- First publication: 1998
- License: Creative Commons Attribution
Despite the popularity of the archlute as a continuo instrument in the Baroque era, very little original solo music from that time has survived. Hence I have written under my italinized name six sonatas in a Baroque style somewhere between Zamboni and Weiss. The sonatas form a tonal cycle and consist of the following movements:
- Sonata I (G-Major): Preludio, Allemanda, Giga, Ceccona
- Sonata II (E-Minor): Allemanda, Corrente, Sarabanda, Borea
- Sonata III (C-Major): Allemanda, Corrente, Sarabanda, Minuet di J.S.Bach
- Sonata IV (A-Minor): Allemanda, Corrente, Sarabanda, Gavotta alla Francese
- Sonata V (F-Major): Allemanda, Giga, Sarabanda, Minuet, Borea
- Sonata VI (D-Minor): Preludio, Allemanda, Giga, Sarabanda di S.L.Weiss, Borea
The Sonatas have been published 1998 by TREE Edition. As is common practice for archlute music, it is notated in italian tablature.
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Here I make two movemants in tablature and an audio sample available so that you can get an impression of style and difficulty of the music. The entire collection is available at a very low price from TREE Edition or its international resellers.
Audio sample of the Corrente from Sonata III
Final movement of Sonata IV as PDF file
(one A4 page, 16kB)
Second movement of Sonata V as PDF file
(two A4 pages, 24kB)