I second David Tayler's remarks, though Donna Curry did pretty well sitting down. Frank Wallace, who's the best one-man duo I've seen, stands, and moves about a good deal, as I recall.
On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Mark Probert wrote: > And when reading from a > figured bass how dense is the chordal underlay? Less than with a > separate Singer? This would depend on whether your separate singer is Birgit Nilsson or Rod McKuen. Perhaps better answer: I can't think of a reason why there should be a firm rule about this, or indeed a firm rule at all. Voicing chords depends on lots of things: your instrument, your voice, the room you're in, what's going on in the two parts, and your personal taste and style. I'm assuming, of course, that you already know it's not necessary to play four-note chords all the time, or to always have complete chords, and indeed in music of this period, Cavalieri, Viadana, Galilei and Caccini himself say not to worry about consecutive fifths and octaves. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
