Torelli: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op.8 No.6 (Christmas Concerto) Mvt.III Vivace - string quartet (arr. Ray Thompson) by Giuseppe Torelli Sheet Music for String Quartet at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Giuseppe Torelli

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Giuseppe Torelli

Arranger Ray Thompson

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 8

Arrangement String Quartet

Publisher RayThompsonMusic

Level 3

Product ID 1571811

Genre Christmas Baroque

Instruments Cello Viola Violin

Performance Group String Quartet

Product Description

Alternative Title: Concerto à Quattro, in forma di Pastorale per il Santo Natale

Often known as his Christmas Concerto

Arranged standard string quartet.

Giuseppe Torelli (16581709) wrote numerous and often imposing symphonies for use in the San Petronio Cathedral in Bologne well before the turn of the century.

Furthermore, he was the first composer to write a concerto for solo violin and string orchestra (published at Augsburg, 1698), and his Concerti Grossi Op 8, which appeared in print shortly after his death, are the very first concertos for two solo violins.

It is the sixth of these that contains the Christmas music.

A solemn Grave sets the scene for the Pastorale, marked Vivace and cast in 12/8 metre, the two solo violins carrying much of the melodic interest.
A meditative Largo leads to another Vivace which is a Gavotte en Musette in all but name, its held bass notes strongly suggesting the drone of the shepherds pipes.

This is my arrangement of the 3rd movement.

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