We know that continuo players often played with the treble players before the bass entrance because of the many examples of figures in the colla parte parts. The figures show many things, but the two that jump out are first that these parts are not cues because they have figures, but also that the chords were played sometimes very high. In some music, this can be doone with a four foot stop on an organ or harpsichord, although generally it is done with the upper range of the keyboard. 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
