Description
P-BRad, MS 964, an important source of open-score keyboard music in contrapuntal genres assembled between c.1690 and c.1715, is one of several keyboard sources from Portugal and Spain from the early eighteenth century that also contains a collection of miscellaneous airs notated in two-stave keyboard score. Prominent repertories within these collections are copies of airs from Lully’s stage works derived from contemporary French printed editions and Italian music originally intended for a treble instrument and bass, including movements from Corelli’s Op. 5 sonatas. Individual items among the miscellaneous airs in P-BRad, MS 964 have been studied and edited by Gerhard Doderer, Alexander Silbiger, Patrizio Barbieri and others, including a setting of La Folia attributed in the source to the Roman organist Bernado Pasquini and a piece related to a “statua sonante” at the villa Aldobrandini, Frascati; also included are a large number of pieces by Lully. In this paper I will focus on the airs derived from Italian sources, discussing newly identified concordances for sonata movements attributed elsewhere to Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti. Arrangements for keyboard or harp could have been made extemporaneously from these pieces and others like them, even for liturgical use. However, it is likely that they also related to an interest in studying treble–bass textures among musicians in Portugal and Spain in the first two decades of the eighteenth century, which by the late seventeenth century had already started to transform the contrapuntal idioms dominant in sacred keyboard genres.| Period | 5 Dec 2019 |
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| Held at | Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Spain |
| Degree of Recognition | International |