Sun Jun 28: Baroque in Transition: The Treble Viol [IMAGE OF MUSICIANS AND POSTER]

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• BAROQUE IN TRANSITION: THE TREBLE VIOL •
 —Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Annalisa Pappano (treble viol)
William Simms (baroque guitar)
Jeffrey Cohan (renaissance & baroque flutes)
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Our final Salish Sea Early Music Festival program in 2026 illuminates an evolving 17th century musical perspective."Renaissance" and "Baroque" instrumental colors were very much in flux and existed side by side, reflecting musical tastes in flux with striking contrast as they diverged stylistically. Works incorporating treble viol alongside the transverse flutes of both the renaissance and the baroque and baroque guitar will feature transitional repertoire by notable Italian composers of the early 17th century, followed by distinctly baroque Italian and French works.

The canzona (think "canzon","chanson" ... a "song" for instruments) appeared in the 1570's as a vocally inspired instrumental form as opposed to the purely instrumental ricercare of the renaissance. It evolved towards our familiar sonata as it exhibited ever more instrumentally idiosyncratic and virtosic colors through the mid 1600’s. At this time diverging Italian and French styles prompted intense intellectual clashes between their proponents. Italian Archangelo Corelli's works were admired to the extent that three of his trio sonatas were included alongside transcriptions for instruments of excerpts from operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully in a collection put together in 1695 by Louis XIV's court music librarian. 

To be represented are early 17th-century Italian composers Tarquino Merula, Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde, Marco Uccelini, Giovanni Paulo Cima and Giovanni Battista Buonamente, followed by mid 17th-century English composer Matthew Locke alongside virtuoso embellishments for treble viol by mid-century German composer Johannes Schop. Switching to baroque transverse flute, contrasting works by Lully and Corelli from the 1695 manuscript mentioned above are to be heard, followed a Suite by early 18th-century French composer Louis-Antoine Dornel from 1713, shortly before the death of Louis XIV and representing the end of a musical era, following which the Italian and French styles were to be more commonly integrated.

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    St. Paul's Episcopal Church
~ all concerts Sundays at 2:00 PM ~   
  1020 Jefferson Street in Port Townsend
    www.salishseafestival.org/porttownsend
 — Suggested donation $20 to $30 —
(a free will offering; pay as you wish) • 18 and under free 
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