An Outline of The History of Western Music Grout ... - The Reel Score

(2) also the more common ornaments added a spice of dissonance that the
notated music lacked
(3) Two principal practice of ornamentation
i) small melodic formulas - trills, appoggiaturas, etc.
ii) extended embellishments - scales, runs, leaps, arpeggios used to make up
a free and elaborate paraphrase of the written line (called division,
diminuation, figuration
c) Cadenza
(1) another embellishment
(2) Usually an elaborate extension of the six-four chord at a final candence
d) Performers thus had the liberty to add to the composer's written score - they were
also equally free to subtract from it or change it in other ways
(1) Arias were omitted or different arias substituted in opera
(2) Movements omitted in variations, suites, and sonatas
(3) Instruments -type and number - not specified
D. Composers
1. Suites
a) Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
b) Francois Couperin (1668-1733) - also know for L'Art de toucher le clavecin one of
the most important practical music treatises of the eighteenth century for clavecin
performance
2. Sonata
a) Italy
(1) Givovanni Battista Vitali (ca. 1644-1692)
(2) Tommaso Antonio Vitali (ca. 1665-1747)
(3) Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690)
(4) Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) - his sonatas & concertos served as models
that composers followed for the next half century
i) relied on sequences to achieve clear tonal organization
ii) his principles of tonal architecture that he developed were further
elaborated and extended by Handel, Vivaldi, & Bach
b) Germany
(1) Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
(2) Reincken
(3) Buxtehude
(4) Fux
(5) Caldara
(6) Christoph Graupner
c) France
(1) Francois Couperin
3. Solo Sonata
a) Johann Jakob Walther (1650-1717?)
b) Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
c) Francesco Germiniani (1687-1762) - one of Corelli's most influential students