Poetical Mottos in Tartini’s Concertos – the Latest Concordances and Questions
Poetical Mottos in Tartini’s Concertos – the Latest Concordances and Questions

Summary/Abstract: In 27 of his concertos Tartini used 39 poetical mottos taken mostly from opera orcantata librettos. Up to now there have been discovered text concordances for 20 mottos,but not all of them can be established with one-hundred percent certainty. Thisarticle adds 16 new concordances, discusses probable functions of the mottos and thenature of the sources from which the composer drew them, as well as the varying degreesof certainty regarding these convergences. The author formulate a hypothesis, that thesource of Tartini’s literary quotations could be some anthology of arias from operasand cantatas in his possession. Apart from poetic quotations the article compares alsothe musical layer of some parts of Tartini’s concertos which carry incipits of arias byvarious authors with the originals, finding examples of subtle similarities. The authorpostulate to undertake in the future a detailed and wide-ranging research into musicalquotations in Tartini’s concertos.

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