La prassi esecutiva del basso continuo al clavicembalo nella musica di Arcangelo Corelli alla luce delle Regole per accompagnar sopra la parte della Biblioteca Corsiniana di Roma Visualizza ingrandito

La prassi esecutiva del basso continuo al clavicembalo nella musica di Arcangelo Corelli alla luce delle Regole per accompagnar sopra la parte della Biblioteca Corsiniana di Roma

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Autore Salvatore Carchiolo
Curatela Guido Olivieri e Marc Vanscheeuwijck
Collana [Biblioteca Musicale LIM - Saggi]
Dimensioni 17×24, pp. XXVIII+538
Anno 2015
ISBN 9788870967975

The anonymous treatise Regole per accompagnare sopra la parte (still preserved at the Corsiniana Library in Rome, in the Girolamo Chiti collection, and in Bologna with a different title) is a source of crucial importance for reconstructing the style of realization of the basso continuo in late Baroque Italy. An investigation on the place and time of origins of this treatise is an obvious preliminary step to define the stylistic relevance of the practices described in it. The comparison between the copy at the Corsiniana and the one that belonged to Padre Martini’s library, and the reconstruction of the exchange of volumes between the two musicians – realized through the information included in the Chiti-Martini correspondence – demonstrates that this treatise went from Chiti’s library to that of Padre Martini. The close relationship of this work with another, the Contrapuncti demonstratio varia, whose compilation Chiti explicitly attributes to himself, suggests that he probably did not simply copy the treatise by someone else, but that he may have collected it from various sources and documents related to common practices in the milieu in which he himself was active. The hypothesis that the practices described in the Regole originated in Rome at Chiti’s time corroborate the fact that they can be applied to the performance practice of Corelli’s music. This association is not only confirmed by external evidence, but also by the contents of the work; indeed, the treatise presents a great number of instances of harmonic procedures often found in Corelli’s music. The Regole are useful in these cases to suggest specific solutions of realization, normally not implied in the mere examination of the figures.