Prelude in D. La, Re, 3ce. Majeur. Avec des Cadences sur tous les degrez de l'Octave.

This is the first of two preludes that conclude Jacques Hotteterre's "L'Art de Préluder sur la Flûte Traversiere, sur la Flûte a Bec, sur le Hautbois et Autres Instrumens de Dessus," (Opera VII, Paris 1719), an exhaustive treatise on the "how-to's" of improvising preludes in early eighteenth-century French style. Hotteterre makes it abundantly clear that while these preludes sound very free, "improvised" or not they must have a clearly defined underlying structure.

The cadences occur as follows: the Cadence sur la 5te. du Ton at 0:25; Sur la 2de. at 0:46; Sur la 6e. at 1:04; Sur la 4te. at 1:20; Sur la 3ce. at 1:44; Sur la 7e. at 2:00; sur la 2de. at 2:11; a Cadence Imparfait at 2:26; sur la 4te. at 2:38; and Sur la Finale at 3:00. In contrast to the g-minor prelude, completing this final cadence takes only one measure.

The recording was made using my Chevalier model flute after the ca. 1700 original in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Pitch is ca. a=405; my performance is live and unedited. Thank you for listening!

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