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Vivaldi RV 580 - is it for guitar or violin? Confused why it's listed both ways
You may refer to the full Ryom listing, (see Wikipedia here), but RV 580 is definitely for four violins (and violoncello by the way), and since it is the only one for four violins (J. S. Bach ...
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What is the following Bach edition number?
(Assuming you want the BWV number)
This is tricky: It is a transcription for guitar of the partita for violin solo #1, BWV 1002, Tempo di borea.
See e.g. youtube
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Need help to identify this baroque keyboard sonata
Good guess, guidot!
It's one of Bach's 6 Little Preludes "zur Anfanger auf dem Clavier" : N° 6 in e minor (BWV 938).
Your extract starts in measure 26.
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What is the name of the piece in the ballroom scene in "The Favourite" (2018)?
This is by Haendel, who frequently re-used his material. One example is from the concerto for due cori #2 in F major, HWV 333, 5th movement "Allegro ma non troppo". Compare this on Youtube.
Another ...
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"Fidi amanti" from Vivaldi's Dorilla in Tempe
I finally found it, after listening to a lot of arias: the music is taken from "Io son rea dell'onor mio", in Vivaldi's Argippo. This aria was discovered only in 2006, so it was not known at the time ...
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Philippe Sarde's "Marie se retire de l'amour": style, inspiration?
Philippe Sarde's music is modern but inspired by the secular music written around 1600 during the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque era. It's particularly reminiscent of the madrigals of ...
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Where can I find information about compositions using composer and catalogue number?
Bad news first: If there is such a data base, I've not found it yet.
But there is some hope: Buy a CD recording and take a look into the booklet. If it is not an extremely cheap series, chances are ...
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Is it actually possible to dance a Sarabande to Erik Satie's "Sarabandes"?
I'm surprised that no-one has thought to try dancing to this. Since Satie most likely did not intend the pieces for dancing, an attempt to do this would have probably appealed to his reportedly quirky ...
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Why is Broschi's "Son qual nave ch'agitata" in Vivaldi's opera "L'oracolo in Messenia"?
The enclosed booklet offers this information (Frédéric Delaméa, 2012):
Only the libretto of the Viennese Oracolo survives, and bears witness to an extensive process of revision which took the final ...
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Name of the baroque music in the movie Lush Life (1993)?
The original music in the movie was composed by Lennie Niehaus, and, as Arsak suggested, that includes this baroque-style piece, according to Sonya Jason, who writes that she was one of the ...
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"False Consonances of Melancholy" album title
As the booklet states, it relates to Nicola Mattei's treatise on continuo playing for the guitar, titled:
The False Consonances of Musick (1682)
It also quotes from this work
You must not play ...
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