Carolyn’s Music

Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant. As distinguished from his cousin, Jean Baptiste Loeillet, who published under the name John Loeillet. At any rate, he was a baroque composer, known to have been christened in Ghent in 1688 and is thought to have lived mostly in France and the court of the Archbishop of Lyons. He published primarily music for flute and recorder.

This was my first attempt at recording multiple tracks at once. It turned out very interesting and educational. It’s very nice to be able to play the two lines on the same exact instrument–I think the blend came out wonderful. But timing was more of a problem. I found it necessary to record with a click track in the background, as there are long held notes and other counting issues in both lines. However, this made the question of relaxing tempo at cadences a problem. I ended up putting more time between sections in order to allow getting off the beat at the end of sections but starting the next section with the click track, thus having to do some splicing to cut out that time. I’m not really entirely happy with the result, I think the sections are still too disjoint.

Gavotte by Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant

Ernest (or Ernst) Krahmer (1795-1837)

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the recorder faded in popularity. However, during the early 19th century a folk wind instrument similar to the recorder, known as the csakan (or czakan), became popular, especially in Vienna. Krahmer was an oboist in the Viennese court orchestra from 1828 until his death and wrote a method book, several compilations of exercises, and much more repertory for this instrument. The Adagio quasi Andante here is from a collection of etudes published first in the early 1820s.

III. Andante quasi Adagio by Ernest Krahmer