<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Of course, rather than worrying so much about open > basses, one could just as easily play troublesome > notes up an octave. From looking at the solo > repertoire for baroque lute alone, it seems this was > very standard practice. In these pieces in which the > composer had freedom to create his own line, we still > find many brief (and no so brief) octave > transpositions of the bass for anything from one note > to several measure's worth. Period continuo tutors > recommend this as well.
Hm, is that so? I was under the impression that playing the bass line _down_ an octave, where possible, was standard practice (cf continuo realizations in Fundamenta der Lauten Musique), but not vice versa. > not worrying so much about the "loss of integrity" of > the bass line. I believe the idea that we should go > to a lot of extra trouble to play the notes exactly as > written is a modern one. Agreed. -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
