On 21 Dec 2008 at 11:39, Eric Fiedler wrote: > I think what Telemann " and/or his copiest " is doing here in TVWV > 1:644 is to alert the viola player to the fact that he is playing the > same line as the bass, albeit an octave higher. This happens a lot in > Telemann manuscripts, with even the violins often being written in > bass clef to show the same thing, a phenomenon which some researchers > call "bassett notation".
I've never heard of that one, but wonder why it would require anything unusual for the violas, since doubling the bass an octave higher is something the violas do in a huge swath of repertory. Why would special notation be required to indicate something that is common practice? -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
