Mozart Duo Concertante

Mozart Duo Concertante

On the themes from Concerto K299

ByMike Parker

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The Double Concerto, K299, for Flute and Harp is one of the major pieces of the harp repertoire, and one of the few pieces that non-harpists are familiar with. Most harp students at music college will be expected to learn it, and a few might get to perform it. In the spirit of 18th C Pot Pouri compositions, in which themes from favourite operas would be arranged as works, and adaptations of larger works for domestic performance, I have tried to make the work accessible to students of the pedal harp, and render it useful as a duo for flute and harp, without orchestra. Mozart's solo writing is largely unchanged ( and marked with a line where it is... a few passages where the orchestral bass is more critical than the harp bass in making the music 'work). The Tutti's are divided between the instruments, and marked as to where the original solos begin, and end, so once this piece has been learned, it is only a matter of learning where to stop playing, and the Concerto is fundamentally learned. The flute part is printed integrally, and may be photocopied for use, and I have endeavoured to make all page turns as considerate as possible, though this is not always possible in a work of this size. Despite having this professionally proofread, the first edition had a number of issues, and so it has been reworked with the aid of a couple of colleagues, Mia Theodoratus, and Xavier Cuevas Bravo, both excellent harpists with a good understanding of the work. No transcription will ever be perfect, however, so please feel free to use this as a base to work from, rather than as a dictate as to how it should be. Despite having the work professionally proofread, there were a number of serious errors in the original edition, so it has been pulled a part, and reworked, and I am grateful to harpists Mia Theodoratus and Xavier Cuevas Bravo for checking and identifying corrections. Because the proofreader had converted the files into Sibelius, which I only had access to for a short time, in measure 74 of the flute part, there is an extranious # that I was not able to correct, but it is marked as a error, and I am sure that there are others that have escaped observation.

Details

Publication Date
Apr 5, 2022
Language
English
Category
Music
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
Adapted by: Mike Parker

Specifications

Pages
75
Binding Type
Paperback Coil Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)

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