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The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1poser whose writings were imported into England in Charles II.'s time by "divers societies of a politer sort, inquisitive after foreign consorts." The following work with others is mentioned by Dr. Rimbault as preserved at Oxford: "Il secondo libre delle Sonate a tre, due Violini e Violone, con il sue Basso continuo, Bologna, 1648."
3Giovanni Legrenzi, born at Bergamo, about 1625, Chapel-master of St. Mark's, Venice, composed several sonatas in connection with the Violin. It was Legrenzi who remodelled the Chapel orchestra of St. Mark's about 1670, in which he introduced eight Violins, eleven small Violas or Violettes for the second and third parts, two ordinary Tenors, three Viols da Gamba, and Double Bass. Passing to Giovanni Battista Vitali, born at Cremona about 1644, we have several compositions for stringed instruments from his pen, fourteen of which are published, and others left in manuscript; these are chiefly interesting from their early dates and titles. Op. 1, published in 1666, Balletti, Correntegighe, Allemando, which is an early mention of such movements. Op. 3 we have besides Balletti-Correnti alla francese; and again, Op. 10, Varie Sonate alla francese ed all'Itagliana. These references to French music point to the style being popular out of France, and evidence an appreciation of that light kind of music which Lulli introduced in his operas to gratify the taste of Louis XIV. Vitali is another of the Italian com-
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