Versailles: French Music of the
17th & 18th Centuries

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Dr. Palmer's own arrangements and transcriptions of French Airs de cour, Marin Marais' Les Folies de'Espagne, and Louis-Gabriel Guillemain's dramatic, schizophrenically exuberant Violin Caprices.

Four Airs De Cour

Guillemain - Two Violin Caprices

"Kris Palmer is clearly among the few current performers on any instrument to fully understand the nature of this music. It speaks so exotically to our modem ears that are more accustomed to the conventions of Italian and German Baroque sensibilities."
New York Concert Review

The Unwritten Slurs in Baroque Woodwind Music

The Unwritten Swing in Baroque Woodwind Music

A series of journal articles published in the California Music Teacher Magazine.

 

A Path Less Trod

black cedar - a path less trod

 Miscellaneous Music-Möbius Movement

Hungarian Trio - Round Dance

 

Janabar: Armenian Liturgical Hymns

 

 

Ornamentation According to CPE Bach & JJ Quantz

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A book examining C.P.E. Bach's and Quantz's directives on appoggiaturas and trills, how to recognize them, and how to execute them. Plus, understanding how ornamentation evolved from the Baroque to the Classical era.

 

"For a performer learning one of these flute concerti or the keyboard versions of the same works, the book would be invaluable...Palmer's suggestions are well researched, and her knowledge of the subject is very thorough...anyone who is interested in a serious examination of the topic should find the book helpful."
American Music Teacher Magazine

"...particularly helpful for performers of the flute concertos by C.P.E. Bach...Palmer writes in a clear, conversational style and provides thoughtful analysis...Each ornament is carefully described in a musical context and includes harmonic and rhythmic analysis...One of the best aspects of the book are the quotes from C.P.E. Bach's Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments and J.J. Quantz's On Playing the Flute..."
Flute Talk Magazine
 
"Given the fact that both composers worked for Frederick the Great, Quantz with a more French influenced background and C.P.E. Bach well rooted in the 'Empfindsamkeit', this comparison gives an interesting insight into ornamentation."
Recorder Magazine
Copies of all publications are available directly from Kris Palmer, DMA.