A Midnight Delight

A Lark Camp special event.
Tuesday night at midnight
in the Camp One dance hall.
All instruments welcome.
18th century period costumes encouraged!

The Lark Camp Baroque Orchestra
(everyone at Camp that wants to come join in)
will perform J.S. BACH - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major
Conductor - David Brown

You can download PDF files of the music here

Johann Sebastian Bach

March 21, 1685- July 28, 1750 was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, a control of harmonic and motivic organisation from the smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France.

Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major

1. Allegro 2. Andante 3. Allegro assai

Concertino: trumpet in F, recorder, oboe, violin

Ripieno: two violins, viola, violone, and basso continuo (including harpsichord).

This piece was almost certainly written with the court trumpeter in C–then, Johann Ludwig Schreiber, in mind. s The trumpet part is still considered one of the most difficult in the entire repertoire, played on either the natural or the modern valved trumpet.

The trumpet does not play in the second movement, as is common practice in baroque era concerti due to the construction of the instrument, which allows the trumpet to play only in one key. Because concerti often move to a different key in the second movement, the trumpet is unable to play.

This piece was also chosen to be the first on the list of songs to be played on the "golden record", a phonograph record containing a broad sample of planet Earth's common sounds, languages, and music. The record was sent into outer space with the Voyager probe launched September 5, 1977 in hopes that some intelligent extraterrestrial species might find and decode its contents.

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