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Post Subject: 2.5 years flies byPosted by steverino on: 7/19/2026
I'm glad that it was just an easy peasy 30 months for you. In any event I do wish the cornetto would be re-established as a regular instrument. A few scores have survived of violinists' ornamented performances from the Baroque era and they are indeed quite a different experience from the basic score the composer left. Back in the day it was expected that the musicians would add to a piece and thus the composers tended to leave off such details. The only Baroque composer I'm familiar with that was obsessive about ornamentation scoring was the keyboard player JH d'Anglebert who had something like 20 different ornaments that he wrote into his pieces. Eduard Melkus the violinist was one of the earliest to learn how to do period ornamentation to Corelli's sonatas back in the 60s and 70s and the difference is striking. Improvisation lasted into the 19th C but gradually stopped because of the Romantic attitudinizing on the composer's mission made the scores sacrosanct. Also composers followed d'Anglebert in writing out every ornamentation and elaboration into the score.
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