His generally lush and highly coloured realisations of the instrumental continuo adds further dramatic weight. |
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He uses the lute or deeper sounding theorbo in a continuo role on other tracks. |
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In both the concertos and cantatas, the continuo consists of harpsichord, cello, and theorbo. |
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I am going to limit myself to the three concertos for four solo violins without basso continuo. |
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The distinguished cellist and educator Claudio Jaffee played his continuo line with artistic authority. |
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Curiously, Holloway uses both harpsichord and organ as basso continuo instruments. |
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Only in the Baroque trio sonata did it have no place, for then the continuo provided the middle harmony. |
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Indeed, the Sonata in G essentially transcribes an earlier work for two flutes and continuo. |
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Called also thorough bass and basso continuo, it arose in the early 17th cent. in Italy as a means of notating an accompaniment. |
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His generally lush and highly coloured realisations of the instrumental continuo add further dramatic weight. |
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Did such instruments as the lute, viol, or violoncello piccolo play a role as continuo instruments? |
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The ensemble, based on a rich, united continuo group to sustain the voice, seeks to bring out baroque composers' use of rhetorical devices. |
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His touch is light, and the same could be said of his continuo playing. |
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The organ part in theses works ranges from simple continuo playing to virtuoso solo tasks. |
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The 17th and 18th-century trio sonata was a favourite chamber ensemble, using two treble instruments and one bass, with a keyboard or lute continuo to fill in the harmony. |
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For instance, two of his sonatas, one for violin, gamba and continuo and the other for two violins, gamba and continuo contain similarly decorated cadential material. |
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The continuo is completed by either the harpsichord or by chamber organ. |
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In the 17th century the development of the basso continuo led to a proliferation of fixed-bass variation types, especially ostinato dances like the passacaglia and chaconne. |
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Additionally, in his chamber works, he gave a more prominent role to the instrument, which often had been assigned a subordinate continuo role in his earlier chamber music. |
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In Corelli's concerti grossi the trio-sonata instrumentation of two violins and continuo was used for the concertino sections, contrasting with the full string ensemble. |
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The keyboard instrument realizing the continuo proved unwieldy and was soon abandoned. |
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Baroque music is characterized by the use of complex tonal counterpoint and the use of a basso continuo, a continuous bass line. |
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With basso continuo, a small group of musicians would play the bassline and the chords which formed the accompaniment for a melody. |
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Miklós Spányi performs as soloist throughout Europe, playing the organ, the harpsichord, the clavichord, the pianoforte or the tangent piano, and as a continuo player and leader of many ensembles. |
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Having a sonority approaching that of the contemporary harpsichord, it was used as a basso continuo instrument in 17th-century chamber-music ensembles. |
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The French cantatas written for one voice and basso continuo and few instruments resembles a short piece of tragedy in music just as much as the Italian cantata resembles a fragment of a serious opera. |
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The solo bassoonist is accompanied by an orchestra which includes strings and oboes, the oboes often taking on a concertino role, and joining the continuo in many of the solo bassoon sections to create an accompanying trio. |
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We will also explore the various technical devices available to the continuo player at the organ or harpsichord: simple and complex arpeggios, ornaments, passing tones and imitation, varieties of texture and tessitura. |
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For modern performance, the realisation of the basso continuo reflects 19th century practice. |
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While the harpsichord was still used in basso continuo accompaniment in the 1750s and 1760s, it fell out of use in the end of the century. |
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Whiffen worked overtime, providing continuo for the programme, but in Brandenburg Five delivering a sparkling account of the huge cadenza. |
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A basso continuo ensemble is joined in the ritornellos by equal treble instruments, minimally two solo violins, and there are no independent instrumental pieces. |
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Polish composers from this period focused on baroque religious music, concertos for voices, instruments, and basso continuo, a tradition that continued into the 18th century. |
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The Concerto in D for Traverso and the Suite in A Minor for Recorder, Strings, and Basso Continuo are among Telemann's most famous works. |
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