I made this early baroque sonata for 5 instruments and Basso Continuo.

Hey! I made this Early baroque sonata for 3 sackbuts, 2 violins and B.C. Its already my 7th sonata i have made and i am really proud of it.

Hello @L.S Barros and welcome to the forum!

Nice sonata!  I assume (you can correct me if I'm wrong) that this is a sonata de camera?  I love the constant exchange between major and minor mode that is so characteristic of music in this style, with all its Picardy 3rds (as I learned on your server).  I do wonder how it would sound if you tried reversing the pattern - like, what if a phrase in a major mode ended on a minor chord?  Or maybe you or some other Baroque-style composer already do this?  I get the sense that this is a dance and is a piece that could easily be danced to in real life rather than just being a dance form that evolved out of an actual dance but is meant to be just an instrumental (which is why I'm guessing that this is a sonata de camera).  Thanks for sharing and I hope you find this forum to be a good platform to share more of your works and participate by listening to other composers' works and possibly reviewing them!  Kind regards,

Thanks! But it actually does not have a form, early baroque sonatas does not have a form at all, it was more based in sections, and it was one single movement, but in those different sections there could be different time signatures, rhythms, modes, tempi... So its a very free style. And also we don't work with phrases, more like motifs, and the imitation and developing of those. About the reverse chord idea its already very much common in all the early baroque repertoire and also renaissance, the only thing about picardy thirds is that they are basically optional now days, but back in the renaissance and baroque it was basically obligatory, because the most common temperament in that time were Meantone temperaments, which favor pure major thirds and sixths. Because of that most of the cadences are indeed using it, but its not really obligatory, you can have an entire piece without any picardy third, and to standarts of that time period it would be completely fine. The reason i use them is because they were obviously more common than the normal minor chords and because they sound nicer to the ears, since the melodic line of the voice which creates the major third in the end is almost like sweetened, and its much easier to sing than the otherwise natural interval.

I really like how it turned out. Both the sounds you used (the organ in particular, or whatever it is) and the composition itself.

On 6/7/2025 at 12:41 PM, Luis Hernández said:

I really like how it turned out. Both the sounds you used (the organ in particular, or whatever it is) and the composition itself.

 

Thank you! I used the default Musescore and the Jeux de orgues soundfonts as i don't know how to work with VSTs (And even if i knew VSTs dedicated to early music are scarse).