Three duos for two violins. [Parts]. [Copyist musical manuscript]
Italy: ca. 1780.
Oblong folio (240 x 304 mm). Notated in black ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Watermark of a bunch of grapes.
Violino primo: [i] (blank), 2, [i] (blank) pp.
Violino secondo: [i] (blank), 2, [i] (blank) pp. With three measures cancelled.
Slightly worn; some small losses, tears, and soiling to edges and blank margins; a few minor stains; occasional showthrough.
Possibly unrecorded. Not located in the RISM manuscript database.
The composition is in four numbered parts. The first, in 2/4, presents a theme; the second is a variation on that theme; the third is in 6/8, in the style of an English jig, with some scalar ornamentation and two tiratas; the fourth and fifth parts return to 2/4 and are further variations on the original theme, this time with sixteenth-note variations incorporating trills, scales, leaps, and bariolage.
A charming and vigorous late-18th century variation set and Giga for two violins, cleverly composed to exploit the varied registers, timbres, and figurations possible with the given instrumentation.
Item #40865
Price: $600.00 other currencies