← Chamber music5La Gamme en forme de petit opéra
For violin, viola da gamba, continuo
Also known as La Gamme · The Scale
Level 5 · Advanced — about ABRSM 8 · RCM 9, with the parts evenly matched
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Listen
- Ensemble
- With continuo
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 35 min
- Composed
- 1723
- Era
- Baroque
Notes
A chain of short pieces climbing up and back down the scale through many keys; violin, viol and harpsichord
Also in La Gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie (1723)
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