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Tartini was a troubled but dynamic man, both a great theorist and a great player. He was a musician and composer who belonged to a period of transition, to that changeover from the late Baroque to Classicism. His compositions for the most part were Sonatas and Concertos, but only a hundred or so (out of a total of about three hundred and fifty) were published during his life-time. The Sonatas are structured along itentical lines - an Adagio followed by two fast movements. The Concertos are intricate and complicated in their first movements; the slow middle section is evocative of song; and the final parts are lively and fast. Tartini’s works of musical theory are also worthy of note. His theory of the "third sound" (or combination tones) was well expressed in a number of publications:
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