"I haven't studied music seriously in many many years and my memory is terrible. I am writing program notes for a piece I wrote years ago and it has a 12 bar melody that repeats over and over again behind other musical lines. I " It is vague, so, it could have been a passacaglia.......
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:49 PM, John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:36 PM -0700 10/12/08, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > >> A Bass can be a melody..........and it is behind......... >> > > Of course it can, but in the case of either a passacaglia or chaconne it is > not, it is a ground, in much the same way that an isorhythmic tenor COULD be > called a melody, but as it was used int he 14th century it was not THE > melody. I don't understand the "behind" comment. > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > of jazz musicians. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
