And there was tantarra rara, tan, tantarra.
Rara, rara, rara rar, there was rub, etc.
“Four and twenty Tabors and Pipers all in a Row
And there was whif and dub,
And tantarra rara, etc.”
and goes on in the same way for several verses.
The next name of importance after Lully is that of Corelli.
We must not imagine that Corelli suddenly appeared like a great shining star in a dark night. No artist ever leaps suddenly upon an astonished world. Every artist builds on the works of those who have gone before him.
To understand Corelli, we must go back a little and recall something that we have already noticed; and that is the importance of the work of the Italian violin-makers.