The research topic of this thesis will be based on Biber's Rosary Sonata no.16 and Marais's“Sonata A la Maresienne” for violin and Basso continuo.
Biber's violin sonatas have an important role in the history of music,“Passacaglia”, the last work of the“Rosary Sonata no.16” which is a remarkable contrapuntal work that comprises difficult skills and productive music characters, with a result that it becomes the one of the most important piece in the Baroque music and foreshadows Bach's Chaconne. However another composer's work, Marin Marais's “Sonata A la Maresienne” is considered as a suit of Baroque music by the form and the style instead of a sonata. This study will analyze the development of background, harmony, and musical forms to discover the interpretation of these works in Baroque period.
