Not being omniscient I would hesitate to say that there are no descriptions,
pictures, references in scores to the guitar in the sonata or canzona
repertoire.
However as we all know many guitar books include instructions on how to
accompany a bass line with the guitar. Presumably these are there for a
purpose. None of
them however give us any information about when guitarists might want to
realize a
bass line and none of them tell us whether the bass line should or should
not be doubled by another instruments.
I think it is a reasonable assumption that guitarists exercised their own
discretion when deciding what to accompany and who else should take part
with them when they did.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lex Eisenhardt" <eisenha...@planet.nl>
To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Granata
As far as unambiguous (17th c) references
to the guitar playing basso continuo together with other bass instruments
is concerned - is there any unamibiguous evidence that it didn't. Why
should it not do so? We don't really have any evidence one way or the
other. There seem to me to be completely unrealistic expectations as to
what any of the sources ought to tell us.
There are countless references to theorboes, organs, harpsichords, wind
and bowed strings with regard to basso continuo. But where do we find
descriptions, pictures, references in scores to the guitar in the sonata
or canzona repertoire?
Lex
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