3 Violins, Bass &
Continuo
SKU:
ST.MB103
Composed by
Various. Edited by John
Cunningham and Peter
Holman. Library Volumes.
Transcribed and edited by
Peter Holman and John
Cunningham. First
published in 2018. Pages:
184. Format: Hardback.
Dimensions (mm): 330 x
254 x 22. Score and
parts. Stainer & Bell
Ltd. #MB103. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.MB103).
ISBN
9790220225178.
Musi
c for three violins and
bass formed a small yet
distinctive corpus of
instrumental music at the
Restoration court of
Charles II and in the
Catholic chapel of James
II. Introduced to England
by the German violinist
Thomas Baltzar, the genre
was adopted by John
Jenkins, whose ten late
fantasia-suites for three
violins, bass viol and
continuo, together with
Gottfried Finger's five
sonatas for the same
group of instruments,
constitute the bulk of
this volume. Other
representative works
include Baltzar's own
Suite in C major and
Bartholomew Isaack's
Ground in A minor, all
fascinating progenitors
of Purcell's crowning
contributions to the
repertoire, his Pavan in
G minor and 'Three Parts
upon a Ground'.
