Article: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo, Opus 1.

Robert E. Preston's new edition of the twelve sonatas of Jean-Marie Leclair's Premier livre de sonates a violon seul avec la basse continue (Paris: Boivin, 1723) is the happy combination of practicality and authority that we have come to expect from A-R Editions and its series Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, under the general editorship of Christoph Wolff. The score is attractively bound in paper, with clearly readable music notation and full-page facsimile reprints of the title page and opening page of Sonata no. 3. Preston supplies a simple keyboard realization of the continuo (in smaller typeface), and when an independent melodic bass is present, as in ...

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