Corelli's Sonata a Quattro (woo4)

[rdtennent]

Schissel has recently made several revisions to this page. It seems
he ignored the rather detailed bibliographic reference provided for the
source:

Arcangelo Corelli, Historisch-kritische der Gesamtausgabe
musikalischen Werke, Bd. V: Werke ohne Opuszahl, ed. Hans Joachim
Marx, Arno Volk/Hans Gerig, Cologne, 1976

The editor is Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Marx of the University of Hamburg,
and is a well-known musicologist who has edited several urtext editions
of the works of Handel and Corelli. I was able to obtain the volume by
interlibrary loan; however, I no longer have it at hand and didn't make
copies of the list of sources or the critical notes, but my recollection
is that the sonata in question is unquestionably for trumpet ("tromba")
and strings, and though not published in Corelli's lifetime, circulated
widely in manuscript. If Schissel thinks the sonata for oboe in C he's
discovered in Vienna is the original (rather than an arrangement), I
suggest he take this conjecture up with Prof. Dr. Marx:

http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Musikwissenschaft/marx.html

I'm sure Marx will be very amused by Schissel's description of him as
the "arranger" of the trumpet version.

"Continuo" is normally taken to be the bass section of a baroque sonata
or concerto. A continuo group might include one or more of cello, bass
lute, organ, harpsichord, etc. Schissel's comment about the lack of
figures suggests to me he is confusing continuo with figured bass. But
in fact Marx's edition does have bass figures. I neglected to add them
because my original publication was an arrangement for recorders. When
I received requests for the "original", I simply used my music software
to transpose the typeset music down to D. I'll add the bass figures when
I have some time and I hope that by then Schissel will have undone his
spurious and misleading edits to this page.

Bob Tennent

[Eric]

I take it you're unfamiliar with how to go back in history and just _restore_ an earlier version of a page on a Wiki (preferably with a brief explanation in the line-box, e.g. say, "See Marx reference"). You don't need me to _undo_ anything, so far as I know. If I disagree and can give better reason (in this case you seem to have reason on your side, as my one source that I remember using, RISM online, needs always to be used carefully and with a heap of salt), things can be taken from there.