The Venetian Concerto in the Eighteenth Century
FAIN: FB-12908-76
John E. Solie
Amherst College (Amherst, MA 01002-2372)
To examine the concertos and sinfonias composed by Venetian and northern Italian composers during the first decades of the 18th century and to seek to use the concerts as a ground upon which to develop and to test hypotheses concerning the development of a musical genre.