hey ray
you have to have keyboard, but if you really don't, try to find an
organ realization so you can quickly figure out the chords. Look for
harmony changes in the middle of the recits when the bass is not
moving--they are often dominant chords but can be other things as well.
It is not an
Dear Elly
A friend of mine would like to know if anyone knows of an edition of
Handel's /Messiah/ which has the figured bass rather than a
realisation ? He's wanting it for a performance where he'll be
accompanying on theorbo ...
I bought the Baerenreiter pocket score, largely unfigured, but
Figured bass continuo part
http://scores.ccarh.org/handel/messiah/continuo/cont21.pdf
Eleanor Selfridge-Field is a distinguiished emerita musicologist at
Stanford University. The full score and continuo part should, therefore,
be very well done. Much good work has been coming from the CCARH
Figured bass continuo part
http://scores.ccarh.org/handel/messiah/continuo/cont21.pdf
Thank you, Arthur! Much clearer than my copied cello part with pencilled in
figures. I'll use this part next time.
I find Handel confusing at times: easy figures, very predictable, so almost
possible
