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The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo - Style in Keyboard Accompaniment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Paperback)
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The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo - Style in Keyboard Accompaniment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Paperback)
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Basso continuo accompaniment calls upon a complex tapestry of
harmonic, rhythmic, compositional, analytical and improvisational
skills. The evolving knowledge that underpinned the performance of
basso continuo was built up and transmitted from the late 1500s to
the second half of the eighteenth century, when changes in
instruments together with the assertion of control by composers
over their works brought about its demise. By tracing the
development of basso continuo over time and across the regions of
Italy where differing practices emerged, Giulia Nuti accesses this
body of musical usage. Sources include the music itself,
introductions and specific instructions and requirements in song
books and operas, contemporary accounts of performances and, in the
later period of basso continuo, description and instruction offered
in theoretical treatises. Changes in instruments and instrumental
usage and the resulting sounds available to composers and
performers are considered, as well as the altering relationship
between the improvising continuo player and the composer. Extensive
documentation from both manuscript and printed sources, some very
rare and others better known, in the original language, followed by
a precise English translation, is offered in support of the
arguments. There are also many musical examples, transcribed and in
facsimile. Giulia Nuti provides both a scholarly account of the
history of basso continuo and a performance-driven interpretation
of how this music might be played.
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