There is no easy answer. You can play colla parte, or course, the ultimate challenge for any lute music, or double the lower voices, or you can just figure it. If it is a later Baroque piece, there will many interlocking 7ths and 9ths, and in these cases I often will play the sevenths so that they resolve, rightly or wrongly, on the next big beat chord. (as in "tea for two"). That avoids constantly doubling the resolution, which often does not sound good or creates ensemble or dynamic issues. I also use the big archlute for these types of pieces, to keep the sevenths and ninths high in the stack and to avoid octave resolutions--a big problem IMHO on many recordings with theorbo continuo, where the extra voice doubles the leading tone or the 7th in the wrong octave. 9ths are a bit less fussy, they can sound OK as a 2nd, and are often figured as a "2". dt
At 11:24 AM 10/28/2008, you wrote: >"David Rastall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > What's up guys, > > > > Continuo question: how do you play basso continuo in a fugue, where > > the voices are played one-on-a-part? My problem is I don't know what > > to do with the places in the music where the bass is not playing. > > Any suggestions? > >Not that I'm an expert, but what I was taught concerning continuo with >fugues is > >a) that continuo doesn't start before the 3rd entry >and >b) that when there's no bass, there's no continuo. > >Mathias > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
