Alfonso, you seem to have jumped the fence and joined the Rob McKillop Subjectivity in Continuo Club. On Sunday, Jul 29, 2007, at 09:27 America/Los_Angeles, Alfonso Marin wrote:
> Can you imagine a continuo realization of for ex. "Amarilli mia > bella" with parallels all over the place? I personally can't. Here's Rule 9 from Ludovico Viadana's Cento Concerti Ecclesiastici (1602) sometimes cited as the first publication to use basso continuo (as opposed to the basso seguente parts that Alfonso was describing): "The partitura [i.e. organ part] is never under any obligation to avoid two fifths or octaves, but those parts which are sung by the voices are." Sorry, I can't find the original Italian. The translation is from F.T. Arnold's "the Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass." To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
