On 18.04.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
So which is more important when you are doing a figured bass?
to try to keep an even line across the page?
For example, would all the single figures be on the same baseline, if you were
to draw a line across the paper
with the line touching the base of those numbers, or would you expect to see
some numbers lower than others,
because of the stem/beams pointing down and going beneath the stave?
Both, depending on the situation. I try to get a uniform baseline per
system, but when there are extreme situations, I might move a figure
further away from the staff.
For me, typographically, I'd like to keep everything uniform, but my hunch is that you can't--not if you can't flip the
beams upwards.
But, at least to my mind, that is a no-no. Never. Not even as an exception.
The whole thing gets much worse when you have dynamics, and here
compromises are unavoidable, sometimes the dynamics just have to go on
top. Or, alternatively, put the figures on top, which a lot of continuo
players prefer anyway, and which is the standard 18th century way of
doing it, too.
Johannes
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