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expanding the instrument's technical capabilities and expressive range. Like other 17th-century
Italian sonatas, Uccellini's consist of short contrasting sections (frequently dances) that flow one into another. Uccellini's innovations influenced a generation of Austro-German violinist-composers including
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of the Modena cathedral from 1647 to 1665. According to payroll records and remnants of
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Italian violinist-composers in the first half of the 17th century. His sonatas for violin and continuo contributed to the development of an idiomatic style of writing for the violin (including virtuosic runs, leaps, and forays into high positions),
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Uccellini (1610-1680) and His Music. Diss. New York U, 1979. Ann Arbor: U Microfilms International, 1979. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses . Web. 20 June 2017.
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Uccellini: Sonata over Canzoni Op 5 (1649). Performed by Arparla with Davide Monti (baroque violin) and Maria Christina Cleary (arpa doppia). Stradivarius STR 37023, 2015.
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by a second and third violins. The first edition of the sheet music was printed in Venice in 1660 but a version reprinted in
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violin and continuo; at the time, it was common for composers not to specify instruments in their works, preferring to write parts adaptable between instruments of similar ranges.
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sometime in the early 1630s. Evidence from his will suggests that
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editors Maria Caraci Vela and Marina
Toffetti, Lucca 1999. Record of conference in Forlimpopoli, 1996. The first study devoted to this composer. Bibliography
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Wilk, Piotr. "The Violin
Technique of Italian Solo Sonata in the 17th Century." Musica Iagellonica (2011): 163-207. Musica Iagellonica. Web. <
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