Great music! If you play the bass line, with whatever is in the other voices on the 1 and 3 of every bar, you're already doing quite a good job of providing a continuo kind of support.
enjoy! David On 23 September 2012 00:41, Guy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm quite well aware of that; I've got the score sitting next to me. > Nonetheless, it's an amateur group, we have to be a bit creative about > instrumentation, and the conductor has asked me to put something together > (call it what you like). I'm hoping for something more helpful than "you > can't get there from here"... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Roman Turovsky > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:45 AM > To: Guy Smith > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ricercare a 6 > > On 9/22/2012 2:30 PM, Guy Smith wrote: >> Does anyone have a continuo part for the Ricercare a 6 from JSB's A >> Musical Offering. I've got a harpsichord realization, but it's in the >> wrong key (we are in C minor). I can work it out from the score or >> transpose the harpsichord part, but if someone has something already, >> it would save me some time. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Guy >> >> > You really can't do continuo in a such a densely polyphonic piece of > music.... > RT > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
