Are you planning to add counterpoint to these melodies? Polyphonic or
monophonic? Is there any figured bass notation? By the late 1700's Alberti
bass was all the rage for piano scores.
Carol
> > There are about 10 tunes in all which have seconds or bass lines which
> > look intersting. Perhaps I am being over influenced by David Johnson who
> > has suggested that the printed bass lines of 18th C Scottish fiddle
music
> > are no better than would be extemporised by a competent cellist. Perhas
> > they are all worth notating.
>
> David's right, but there's a point in having them on paper regardless:
> they show that even triadic harmony was more complicated than what
> was expected at the time, let alone the fancy jazz-inspired guitar or
> accordion chordings popular now. These one-note or bare-octave bass
> lines can be very effective and are drastically underused at present.
>
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