Zamponi, Gioseffo | Sonata à violino e viola da gamba (c1660)

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• Sonata à 2. violino e viola da gamba e continuo, in a minor [from Ms F-Pn, Rés Vm7 673, no. 45]
• Sonata à 2. violino e viola da gamba e continuo, in d minor [from Ms GB-DRc, D2, no. 28]

« The Stylus Fantasticus is especially suited to instruments. It is the most free and unrestrained method of composing, it is bound to nothing, neither to any words nor to a melodic subject, it was instituted to display genius and to teach the hidden design of harmony and the ingenious composition of harmonic phrases and fugues.» [In: Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), Musurgia universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni in libros digesta, Rome, 1650, t. I, p. 585]