Word: continuo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practical problems in the performance of choral music of different periods. Dynamics, rhythm, tempo, basso continuo, instrumental accompaniments, number of performers, balance of parts, and related problems of style, approached historically and analytically...
...extremely interesting section of the program is to be devoted to chamber-music by Corelli and Mozart for two violins, cello, and organ continuo. Sonatas written for this combination, with the harpsichord as an alternate for the continuo, were the equivalent in Corelli's day of the string quartet, and in fact evolved into the later form during the classical period. Corelli himself wrote a tremendous volume of them, some forty odd, of which two are to be played tonight. Three of Mozart's one-movement sonatas for the same combination of instruments will also be played, and they probably...