On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:41:43 -0800 (PST), Christopher Wilke wrote > Ralf, > > On Tue, 2/25/14, R. Mattes <r...@mh-freiburg.de> wrote: > > > There is no such thing as "harmony below bass". Please, get > > all out of your Berkeley Jazz shoes, now. > > No, everyone keep your shoes on, please! In fact, 17th century > players frequently utilized the option to play "harmony below the > bass" by recognizing chord roots and inverting them as was > practical. There are even examples of written out lute realizations > in which every single chord has been voiced in root position(!),
But that is not "harmony below the bass" at all. That's just substituting the bass note. > which clearly shows that they understood the theoretical principles > at work, even if they lacked a terminology to discuss them in > today's lingo (i.e. "Berkeley Jazz shoes"). According to what we > know of 17th century theory, players "couldn't" do this, but, well, > um, they did. I noted one such instance from Castaldi in my last > post. Yes, but there is no mystery at all in that example - and no need to refer to "modern" (read: Rameauistic) terminology. At that spot Castaldi just susbstitutes a "Clausula Cantizans" with a *Clausula Fundamentalis". As you see, they even had a name for it (and allready Vincentino 1555 mentions the possibility to substitute one with another). Any musician with only moderate training would know by heart that a cantizans fa-mi-fa would go together with a fundamentalis la-re-sol or ut-re-sol and that would fit to a tenorizans mi-re-ut or fa-re-ut and fa-fa-ut and which of these patterns can be (re-)combined. > I discuss many more in far greater depth in an article I wrote > for the LSA which has very frustratingly been in publishing limbo > for several years. Too bad - I'd love to read it at some point. Can't you publish it somewhere else (or publish it online)? I hate when valuable information gets lost ... Cheers, RalfD To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
