Hi, Actually, I ran into a concerto grosso not long back where putting the figured bass line somewhere other than the bottom would have been useful. I'm not positive anymore, but I think it was Muffat.
At any rate, the figured bass line was up in the concertino, rather than on the bottom line with the ripieno group, where PMX would normally look for it. That line was the regular basso. I should probably add, though, that this was a "modern" edition and not a facsimile or original source. Have a good vacation, Don, and fun playing! My orchestra is performing the Brandenburg Concertos 4, 5 and 6 this weekend - the 4th in Bach's reworking as harpsichord concerto - so our harpsichordist is going to get a good workout! (Not that we're actually twiddling our thumbs ourselves...) Diane Blaurock ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Typesetting music with TeX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:46 PM Subject: RE: [TeX-music] Two figured bass line in PMX > Luigi Cataldi wrote > > > I have to typeset in PMX a figured bass sonata by Pasquini for two > > harpsichords, that requires two figured bass lines. Is there a way to > > put the figures not only in the lowest voice but in the upper too? > > When I saw the subject line I immediately thought about Pasquini and those > strange pieces. Are there any other works with two parallel lines of figured > bass? Sometime in the last decade I set out to typeset some of them, and I > made a special version of PMX to do it. I did get the process working but > never got very far with the typesetting. I can't think of any good way to do > it in the current PMX. If you have some patience, I'll try to find the old > special version and integrate the capability into modern PMX. It'll be a > good spare-time project for my long-awaited vacation starting this Thursday, > most of which I'll spend playing harpsichord and visiting old friends at the > International Baroque Institute at Longy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Then > when you finish the typesetting, we can get together and play them :-) > > --Don Simons > > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
