Re: [abcusers] What is Figured Base ?

[Frank Nordberg]

Laura Conrad wrote:
> 
> But if you transcribe baroque music at all, you are going to want to
> be able to transcribe the figures.  Most keyboard parts to baroque
> ensemble pieces that you've ever seen were what's called "realizations
> of the figured bass", where the editor filled in what a keyboard
> player might have actually played from the bass line notes and the
> figures.

Or more correctly: what the transcriber assumed a keyboard player would
have played. It's amazing how many "modern" early music editions there
are with continuo realizations written by people with absolutely no
knowledge about baroque style (which is bad, but acceptable) and no
sense of musicality whatsoever (which is disastrous).


Frank Nordberg
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