[VIHUELA] Re: Strumming as basso continuo {was: Return to earlier question: {was: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-15 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Monica, The Corradi 1616 collection contains pieces for one, two and for three voices along with an intabulated part for 'chitarrone', the guitar alfabeto and a staff notated bass line ('da sonare nel Clavicembalo, et altri Stromenti simili'). So it's not just solo songs

[VIHUELA] Re: Strumming as basso continuo {was: Return to earlier question: {was: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-15 Thread Monica Hall
- Original Message - From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk To: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk Cc: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu; Lex Eisenhardt eisenha...@planet.nl Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:13 AM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Strumming as basso continuo {was:

[VIHUELA] Re: Strumming as basso continuo {was: Return to earlier question: {was: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-15 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Hmmm... Does a realised bass part always have to contain the bass exactly as written in the staff notation as its lowest line? Of course, ideally yes (and on the keyboard always yes) but many theorbo continuo realisations, for example, are obliged to adapt the bass because of

[VIHUELA] Re: Strumming as basso continuo {was: Return to earlier question: {was: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-15 Thread Eloy Cruz
Of course, like you, I doubt whether the Pope would have expected a strummed guitar in Palestrina's Messa Papae Marcelli. Indeed, is there even any evidence for the excessive strumming in some modern fashionable performances of South American sacred settings? Probably not as much

[VIHUELA] Re: Strumming as basso continuo {was: Return to earlier question: {was: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-15 Thread Monica Hall
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:25 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Strumming as basso continuo {was: Return to earlier question: {was: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]} Hmmm... Does a realised bass part always have to contain the bass exactly as written in the staff notation as its lowest

[VIHUELA] Re: Strumming as basso continuo {was: Return to earlier question: {was: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-15 Thread Monica Hall
- Original Message - From: Eloy Cruz eloyc...@gmail.com To: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:35 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Strumming as basso continuo {was: Return to earlier question: {was: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]} Probably not as