Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!vax135!cornell!mf From: mf@cornell.UUCP (mf) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: La Follia Message-ID: <1157@cornell.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 01:02:35 EST Article-I.D.: cornell.1157 Posted: Sun Jan 13 01:02:35 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 01:51:06 EST Reply-To: (Uucp) cornell!mf (ARPA) mf@cornell-gvax (Bitnet) MF AT CRNLCS Organization: Cornell U Lines: 22 Keywords: Corelli, Vivaldi, Geminiani, La Follia Corelli's Op. 5 #12 is a set of variations for violin & continuo on ``La Follia.'' The other day, I heard the last few bars of a piece which sounded very much like it (and I know it pretty well, having played it), but the speaker anounced it was a Vivaldi sonata (and I couldn't catch more info)... Now my questions are: 1. Does anybody know if Vivaldi (and other composers) wrote variations on this theme? 2. Where does the theme originally come from? I'd prefer responses by mail. That's what I remember of the Corelli theme (key: D minor): | | |` | | | | |=| | | | |` | | | |` |-| | 3/4 o o. o | #O o | o o. o o | O. | o o. o | O o | o. #o o o | #O. | D D E #C C D D C D E F F G E F D #C D E #C As an aside: Geminiani orchestrated the whole set of 12 sonatas into concerti grossi.