Annotation:Bocchi's Bass Minuet
X:1 T:Bocchi's Bass Minuet C:Lorenzo Bocchi M:3/4 L:1/8 B:David Young – “A Collection of Scotch Airs with the latest Variations” (AKA - The B:McFarlane Manuscript (c. 1741, No. 56, p. 112) F: https://rmacd.com/music/macfarlane-manuscript/collection/pdfs/bocchi_s_bass_minuet.pdf N:The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland K:C (AB) T(B3 A/B/)|c4 d2|(cd)e2 dc BA|T^G4 A2|EF ED CB, |CD CB, A,B,| CD TD4|E6|cd T(d3 c/d/)|e4 f2|g2 fe dc|TB4 c2|GA GF ED| EF ED CD|EF G2 G,2|C6::g2 T(g3 f/g/)|a2 AG FE|f2T(f3e/f/)|g2 GF ED| e2 T(d3 d/e/)|g2 GF ED|e2 T(e3 d/e/)|f2 FE DC|cd ec fd| ge dc BA|TG3 F E2|A(E DE) AE|B(E DE) BE|c(E DE) cE| d(E DE) dE|gf ed cB|AB AG FE|DF ED CB, |CD E2E2|A,6:|]
BOCCHI'S BASS MINUET. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Bocchi's Bass Minuet" was included in Edinburgh fiddler and writing master biography:David Young's MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1741, No. 56, p. 112). It is attributed to Lorenzo Bocchi, an Italian composer, cellist and gambist who came to live in Scotland in the 1720s where he was active and highly regarded in the musical life of Scotland and Ireland. Although details of his life are obscure, he was probably the first person to play the violoncello in Scotland and Ireland; his Musicall Entertainment for a Chamber contains the first solo violoncello music printed in Britain, as well as two late and rare examples of published solo viola da gamba music – an instrument he presumably played. Two two gamba sonatas were published around 1724 in Dublin. Bocchi worked closely with poet and songwriter Allan Ramsay on a few dramatic projects, perhaps helping Ramsay to convert his pastoral play Gentle Shepherd into a ballad opera, the first in Scotland. After he moved to Dublin, in 1723 or 1724, he was involved in the first regular concert series in Ireland, and played an important role in establishing music publishing there.
