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Re: Patch: figured bass. [Comments wanted]
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David Raleigh Arnold |
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Re: Patch: figured bass. [Comments wanted] |
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Sun, 09 Sep 2001 20:40:30 -0500 |
Jérémie Lumbroso wrote:
> JR> Please also note that the conversion from figures to notes is not unique,
> JR> since it allows chord inversions. The conversion from chords to figures
> JR> is, as far as I know, more or less unique. "Less" means, that ornaments
> JR> are dropped when converting to figures; but they were anyway notated
> JR> sparsely in baroque music (which is the domain of figured bass).
> Never were there ornaments in figured bass, it's extremely
> rare a composer explicitly tells the executer that he has to
> ornate such note. It's left to the performer,
The continuo player is also a performer. The long appoggiature gave
hints to the soloist which notes were suspensions, and calling that
ornamentation is a stretch IMHO. Nevertheless, you are right that the
only use for rendering figures as notes or chords is to cheat in a
university harmony class. :-)
DaveA