The music.
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J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no 1 was originally written for a chamber
ensemble consisting of strings, two french horns and three oboes.  A general
principle in this arrangement for recorders of the 3. movement was to assign
solo passages to all recorder parts. Therefore, apart from the basso bart, the
parts of J. S.  Bach's original score have not just been moved to one of the
recorders. In some cases a solo phrase has even been split up between more
recorder parts, for example has measure 5-7 of the first violin and the first
oboe which in the recorder arrangement been split into three separate measures
played by descant recorder 1, descant recorder 2 and treble recorder 1.

As said above the bass recorder is the only exception from that principle. The
only differeneces from the original part are some octaved up notes or
sequences of notes forced by the ambitus of the f bass recorder. The left hand
part of the basso continuo part has been copied directly from the original
score while the harpsichord realization of the continuo has been made by the
arrangers.

All slurs have been transfered unchanged from the original score to the
arrangement including those spanning 3 repeated 8'th on the same tone. These
slurs are not identical to ties. Bach has applied them not only on the string
parts - in which case they could be seen as bowing directions - but also on
the horns and oboes. The arrangers suggest that they be performed non legato
on the recorders.


The sources files.
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In case you want to process the M-Tx and TeX source files yourself you'll want
version 2.07 or greater of pmx. The generation of the score and the separate
parts is straight forward: just run prepmx on the mtx source file, pmx on the
resulting pmx file and musixtex on the tex files resulting from pmx. To
produce the separate parts run scor2prt on the pmx source file of the
score. You should then process all the pmx files (except brand132.pmx)
resulting from scor2prt.


Annette Mondrup (annette-mondrup@mail.tele.dk)
Christian Mondrup (scancm@biobase.dk)