The Italian 'trio' sonata
Subtitle: from its origins until Corelli
By: Peter Allsop.
Series: Oxford monographs on music
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Trio sonata; Chamber music -- Italy -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Description: "This is the first in-depth study of Italian instrumental ensemble music during the seventeenth century based on the great majority of surviving primary sources. Most previous studies have tended to confine themselves to a fixed location or a single composer, rather than offering a correlated account of the genre in its entirety. This book provides comprehensive coverage of every major composer of Italian 'trio' sonatas until Corelli, and is intended as a standard work of reference. It also attempts to undermine the mythology surrounding the development of the free sonata acquired from successive generations of historians, eventually seeking to present Corelli's works, not as the inevitable culmination of the pre-history of the sonata, but as the product of the precise interaction of two regional traditions. The musical development is placed within a broad historical perspective examining such factors as performance and function, and thus placing the sonata within its cultural setting."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-252) and index.