Posted by Klaus on September 20, 2001 at 02:55:09:
In Reply to: Tuba-Oboe Duet posted by Matthew on September 19, 2001 at 20:58:55:
Telemann has been mentioned. But actually all of the Baroque solo sonatas with basso continuo might fit your bill.
There is no need to play the bass line in the written octave. With a very few exeptions of a theoretical nature you can read them an octave down if needed. But please do not cancel out the sometimes gigantic, and significant, bass leaps of one or two octaves.
Transposition was the norm. Whatever was written in D for the Flauto Traverso could be played in F on the recorder. There even were fully standardized transposition/clef-change tricks at hand.
A certain Telemann F-minor basson sonata has been a hit within the recorder world.
The strength, and to a minor extend the limitation, of the very Baroque sonata idea was, that it was thought out in musical structures more than in actual sounds. The choices of which were left to the musical executors.
But of course there were general rules to be read in treatises by Quantz and Hotteterre and their likes. Rules that for some reason never mentioned the tuba.
Klaus