If you mean the common ostinato pattern such as Romanesca, Ruggiero, Passamezzo, etc., while we today can perceive these as harmonic patterns, in the 16th century they were generally expressed as linear bass patterns.
There is a PDF file at <scottfoglesong.com/214stuff/Variations/ostinato_basslines.pdf> that provides some common bass patterns as found in Ortiz (Trattado de Glossas sopra Clausulae, 1553). Included are Passamezzo antico, Romanesca, Folia, Passamezzo moderno [which can be perceived as the common bluegrass I IV I V, I IV I-V-I harmonic pattern], and Ruggiero. An excellent article about such patterns (with musical examples in notation and MIDI) in the seventeenth century is available online: Alexander Silbiger, "Passacaglia and Ciaccona: Genre Pairing and Ambiguity from Frescobaldi to Couperin", The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Volume 2, no. 1 (1996): <http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/v2/no1/silbiger.html>. If you have access, for example through a local academic music library or public library, you can find discussions and examples of these patterns in Grove Music Online <http://www.grovemusic.com> (subscription service). You will need to search the various names and titles as well as "basso ostinato" and the like. You should also look at Ortiz, Trattado de Glossas sopra Clausulae, 1553. As far as I know he does not supply the names, but he gives good examples (for viol and accompanying instrument) of how such bass patterns were used in improvisation. There is a good German edition published by Barenreiter. Any decent academic music library should have it. Perhaps someone knows of an online version. GJC Gordon J Callon Adjunct Professor School of Music Acadia University Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada B4P 2R6 http://ace.acadiau.ca/score/site-map.htm -----Original Message----- From: Omer katzir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12/5/2007 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] Musical Form Analysis Hi guys and girls, Long time ego, when i was young and beautiful, i had a web site in my bookmarks with all kind of form analysis for dances and stuff, both harmonic and rhythmic analysis. Now, I'm much older and uglier and I can find this web site. All i need is a basic form of renaissance dances some thing like: i V VII V I VI I in 3/4 and stuff like this. Can any one help me finding a web site? can any one save me from the endless search in google? Happy Christmas or Chanukah for all! To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
