On 3 Aug 2007 at 17:13, dc wrote: > Martin Banner écrit: > >I am preparing a modern performing edition of an 18th Century sacred > >Latin piece for chorus and orchestra, including continuo. As I am > >preparing the keyboard realization of the figured bass, I think back > >to the continuo keyboard parts I have played from (mostly European > >publications, Baerenreiter, Breitkopf, etc), where the naming of the > >part is "Cembalo". For an edition such as mine that will be published > >here in the US, what would be an appropriate substitute term in > >English to use in place of Cembalo. "Keyboard" is the first thing > >that comes to mind, but is there something clearer than that to > >indicate that this is the keyboard realization of the continuo > >figured bass? > > The normal continuo instrument for such a sacred piece would be not > the cembalo (harpsichord) but the organ, so it would make little sense > to label it cembalo or its English equivalent. You could of course > label it simply continuo, but you should specify somewhere that this > is an editorial realization of the figured bass.
That's usually accomplished by making the realizing smaller noteheads than the bass line, though it would be the rare exception where we had a contemporary realization recording in a contemporary source (I know of none, as a matter of fact). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
