Richard Mills Commedia
Wise Music G. Schirmer Australia Pty Ltd
Sydney, NSW
Instrumentation:
2 Flutes
Piccolo
2 Oboes (2nd doubling Cor Anglais)
2 Clarinets
Bass Clarinet
2 Bassoons Contrabassoon
4 Horns
3 Trumpets
2 Trombones
Bass Trombone
Tuba Timpani
2 Percussion
2 Harps
Violin 1
Violin 2
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
Chorus (SSATBarBarB)
The Full Score is notated in Transposed Pitch
Duration: circa 45 minutes
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Performance notes:
Commedia is a set of pieces arranged for orchestra from Renaissance and Baroque compositions.
1. Intrada Anon. 16th century
2. Minstrels Entry Italian keyboard album - anon. 16th century
3. Minstrels’ Prologue Prologue to L’ Amfiparnusso (1597) Orazio Vecchi, 1550-1605
4. “Udite tutti quanti” from La pazzia senile (1598) Adriano Banchieri, 1568-1634
5. Già il sole dal Gange Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660-1725
6. Giga from Violin Sonata in G minor, Antonio Vivaldi, 1628-1741
7. Corrente from Violin Sonata in D minor, Antonio Vivaldi, 1628-1741
8. Danza, danza, fanciulla gentile Francesco Durante, 1684-1755
9. Quella fiamma che m’accende Benedetto Marcello, 1686-1739
10. Teco si Leonardo Vinci, 1690-1730
11. Canon Antonio Vivaldi, 1628-1741
12. Sonata in D major Domenico Scarlatti, 1685-1757
13a. Nedda sad and alone
13b. Lasciatemi Morire from Arianna (1608) Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643
13c. Minstrels’ return
14. Pulcinell che vostu far from La Pazzia Senile (1598) Adriano Banchieri, 1568-1634
14a. Stardust
15. Balletto di Villanelle from La Pazzia Senile (1598) Adriano Banchieri, 1568-1634
16. Four di preiglio from Floridante, G.F. Handel, 1685-1759
17a. Vado ben spesso Salvator Rosa, 1615-1673
17b. Scarlatti Sonata – reprise
18. Sarabanda from Violin Sonata in G minor, Antonio Vivaldi, 1628-1741
19. Sebben, crudele Antonio Caldara, 1670-1736
20. Pur ti miro from L’incoronazione di Poppea, Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643
21. Il teatro e la vita Sigismondo Molino, 1628-1701
22. Ecco morirò Carlo Gesualdo, 1566-1613
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