Orchestra - intermediate
SKU: HL.49002149
Score. Composed by
Francesco Manfredini.
Edited by Helmut W. May.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Concertino (Chamber
Orchestra). Classical.
Score. Composed 1718. Op.
3/12. 23 pages. Duration
10'. Schott Music #CON94.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49002149).
ISBN
9790001022859. UPC:
073999621150.
9.0x12.0x0.097
inches.
It was the
Weihnachtskonzert
(Christmas concerto) in C
major that won special
popularity continuing a
tradition which was
cultivated by Corelli
with his pastoral at the
end of Op. 6 No. 8 or by
Torelli in his Op. 8 No.
6 and reaching to the
pastoral in Handel's
Messiahs and to the
sinfonia in the second
cantata of Johann
Sebastian Bach's
Christmas oratorium.
This, finally, originates
from the music-making of
shepherds - coming from
the Abruzzi and from
Calabria to Rome at
Christmas to play the
shawm and the bagpipes in
front of the cribs. Hence
the popular consecutive
thirds and the sustained
bass tones characterizing
the first Largo, a
genuine siciliano in the
rocking, typically dotted
12/8 time.
