Caprice par Monsr. C. Guneymere. Manuscript score

by C. Guneymere

$150 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Quarto 227 x 296 mm . ? Autograph musical manuscript in black ink on 16-stave rastrum-ruled paper. 3, i blank pp. on a single bifolium.Scored for violin and bass instrument or unfigured basso continuo. The music is in 3/8, in B-flat major, marked Presto. It is in rondo form and features rapid arpeggios, leaping sequences of double stops, and brilliant varied articulation. The music seems to bear some influence of earlier composers in the French violin school, e.g.,

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