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Title Restoration music for three violins, bass viol and continuo / transcribed and edited by Peter Holman and John Cunningham.

Publication Info. London : Stainer and Bell, 2018.
©2018

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 Talbott Reference  M2 .M97 B v.103    Available  
Description 1 score (xlviii, 134 pages) : facsimiles ; 33 cm.
score
Medium of Performance violin 3 double bass 1 continuo
violin 3 continuo
Series Musica Britannica, 0580-2954 ; CIII
Musica Britannica ; 103.
Note This volume contains 18 complete pieces and 1 fragment of music written in England between about 1660 and 1690. Composers include Thomas Baltzar, John Jenkins, Bartholomew Isaack, Nicola Matteis, and Gottfried Finger. With a preface, introduction, editorial notes, facsimiles, and textual commentary.
"Published for the Musica Britannica Trust established by the Royal Musical Association."
Language Staff notation.
Note Critical commentary in English; preface in English, French, and German.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Suite in C major / Thomas Baltzar -- Ten fantasia-suites. Suite no. 1 in D major ; Suite no. 2 in D minor ; Suite no. 3 in G minor ; Suite no. 4 in A minor ; Suite no. 5 in A major ; Suite no. 6 in F major ; Suite no. 7 in B flat major ; Suite no. 8 in C major ; Suite no. 9 in C minor ; Suite no. 10 in E minor / John Jenkins -- Ground in A minor / Bartholomew Isaack -- Ground in D minor / Nicola Matteis -- Five sonatas. Sonata in E minor, op. 1, no. 7 ; Sonata in G minor, op. 1, no. 8 ; Sonata in D major, op. 1, no. 9 ; Sonata in B flat major ; Sonata in B flat major / Gottfried Finger -- Appendix. Sonata in C major (the extant violin 2 part) / Gottfried Finger.
Summary "Music for three violins and bass formed a small yet distinctive corpus of instrumental music at the Restoration court of Charles II and in the Catholic chapel of James II. Introduced to England by the German violinist Thomas Baltzar, the genre was adopted by John Jenkins, whose ten late fantasia-suites for three violins, bass viol and continuo, together with Gottfried Finger's five sonatas for the same group of instruments, constitute the bulk of this volume. Other representative works include Baltzar's own Suite in C major and Bartholomew Isaack's Ground in A minor, all fascinating progenitors of Purcell's crowning contributions to the repertoire, his Pavan in G minor and 'Three Parts upon a Ground'. -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Chamber music -- England -- 17th century.
Chamber music.
England.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Quintets (Violins (3), double bass, continuo)
Quartets (Violins (3), continuo)
Suites (Violins (3), double bass, continuo)
Suites (Violins (3), continuo)
Variations (Violins (3), double bass, continuo)
Variations (Violins (3), continuo)
Quartets (Violins (3), continuo)
Suites (Violins (3), continuo)
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Chamber music.
Chamber music.
Variations (Music)
Variations (Music)
Suites.
Suites.
Scores.
Scores.
Added Author Holman, Peter, 1946- editor, transcriber, transcriber.
Cunningham, John Patrick, editor, transcriber, transcriber.
Container of (work): Baltzar, Thomas, -1663. Suites, violins (3), continuo, C major.
Container of (work): Jenkins, John, 1592-1678. Fantasia-suites.
Container of (work): Isaack, Bartholomew, 1661-1709. Ground, violins (3), viola da gamba, continuo, A minor.
Container of (work): Matteis, Nicola, active 1672-1699. Divisions on a ground, violins (3), continuo, D minor.
Container of (work): Finger, Godfrey, approximately 1660-1730. Sonatas, violins (3), double bass, continuo. Selections.
ISBN 9780852499535
0852499531
Standard No. 9790220225178
Music No. MB103 Stainer & Bell