Ralf, On Tue, 2/25/14, R. Mattes <r...@mh-freiburg.de> wrote:
> First, as I've said before: a guitar accompaniment is not a > vaild source > for continuo realizations! Guitar players where actually > known for there > inability to play sophisticated music... Whether the music they played is "sophisticated" enough for anyone's taste is irrelevant: as a resource, it reflects some 17th century musicians' ability to recognize that identical groups of notes resulted in functionally identical vertical sonorities independent of octave placement or voice leading. In other words, they knew a Cm7 chord was a Cmin7 chord whether it had a C, an E-flat, a G or a B-flat under it. Quite sophisticated thinking, actually. > Do yo uthink that the lower vocal part is also > meant as a BC part? This is a vocal duo with written out theorbo > accompaniment. The theorbo bass voice is an independent voice. Whether the bass is sung or not is irrelevant because the part in bass clef functions as the continuo line. The theorbo bass is definitely not "an independent voice" since 99% of the time Castaldi reproduces the line of the basso exactly, an octave lower. Castaldi only deviates from the mensural bass for reasons specific to the theorbo, like when he couldn't play the expected low F#. His solution demonstrates the types of options that a 17th musician felt were valid. Chris Dr. Christopher Wilke D.M.A. Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
