Luigi Cataldi wrote > As far I > know there are no other works of this kind. But I think that it's > possible to find two figured bass line in works for double choir, like > the "Dixit Dominus" RV594 by Vivaldi (if I remember well).
and Diane Blaurock wrote >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.< Just to clarify things for those who aren't familiar with Pasquini's figured bass pieces, the thing that really distinguishes them is that there is nothing else there except one or two figured bass lines. They all come from one 1703 manuscript which has been reproduced in facsimile as Volume 8 of the series "17th Century Keyboard Music" by Garland with an introduction by Alexander Silbiger. As a result of this thread I pulled my copy off the shelf and re-read the introduction. The MS has 344 pages of which fully 277 are devoted to the figured-bass pieces. Scholars have argued ad nauseum about their intent: teaching pieces? accompaniments to lost solo lines? or stand-alone musical works? Silbiger goes with door #3. As to whether there are other works like this, Silbiger says "Collections of such pieces are by no means rare; most date from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and all share certain common features." Then he gives a reference to "Vol. 13 of this set" without saying who the other composer was or what the common features are. --Don Simons > Don Simons ha scritto: > > >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
