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| | Figured bass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A form of figured bass is used in notation of accordion music; another simplified form is used to notate guitar chords. | | | A part notated with figured bass consists of a bass-line notated with notes on a musical staff plus added numbers and accidentals beneath the staff to indicate at what intervals above the bass notes should be played, and therefore which inversions of which chords are to be played. | | | The figured bass notation, described below, is a guide, but performers are expected to use their musical judgment and the other instruments or voices as a guide. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figured_bass
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| | figured bass |
| | Figures indicate the interval above the bass of the note which characterises the chord. | | | The flattening of the third is made on the assumption that the composer was thinking in terms of G minor, despite the one-flat signature, and that the change to the D major of the next bar should not be anticipated. | | | It is best to start with early 17th century music, where figuring is sparse and the choice of chords usually simple, before trying quicker-moving and more complicated music of the later baroque. |
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http://www.saraband.com.au/figured_bass.htm
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| | Music 15100 Resources |
| | Figured bass is a notational shorthand developed in the early seventeenth century for ensemble music. | | | For instance, if the singer's part made a 5th above the bass and the violin a 3rd (or some octave-duplicate of those intervals), neither interval would be notated. | | | Because figured bass was a shorthand, the intervals that were most common above the bass were not notated. |
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http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classes/zbikowski/151_resources.html
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| | Chords |
| | Figured bass indicates the bass note and the intervals above that note. | | | The third above the bass, however, is a commonly altered interval, so lazy musicians have often used only an accidental with no number to specify an altered third. | | | When an accidental needs to be added to a note, the accidental is added before the number that indicates that pitch's interval above the bass. |
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http://www.smu.edu/totw/chordinv.htm
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| | Cello in the 18th Century |
| | This explains why there are so many early editions labeled thus: for "violin and bass", "violin and cello", "cello and bass", "violin and bass violin or harpsichord". | | | Because a music which lacks a strong bass always leaves much to be desired by the ear. | | | Handel's famous Water Music was published in 1733 with a "thorough Bass for Harpsichord or Bass Violin". |
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http://www.standingstones.com/cell18th.html
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| | MO01 |
| | 6 under a bass note implies 6 and 3, which means that above the bass there are intervals of a sixth and a third or compounds of these intervals. | | | Both a 6 and a 4 under the bass means that the intervals, sixth and fourth appear above the bass; result, second inversion chord. | | | An accidental in front of a number means that interval above the bass should have the same accidental. |
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http://www.odu.edu/al/wbartolo/mod34a.html
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| | Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Figured Bass |
| | 11, he gave several examples of how a passage of figured bass might be realised. | | | Arnold Dolmetsch, who quotes it in his book "The Interpretation of Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" in a chapter entitled 'Thorough Bass', makes the comment "it would not get a high number of points in a musical examination". | | | We have given above the figurings most commonly met in 'early' music. |
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http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory18.htm
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| | Tom Pankhurst's TonalityGUIDE (pilot project): Template |
| | the intervals do not necessarily appear above the bass in the order in which they are figured, a 3, for example can refer to any third above the bass even if there is one or more octaves in between. | | | As the example below shows, if there is an accidental on its own it applies to the note a third above the bass (in this case the B flat). | | | It also links to a short introduction to the study of tonality as well as a reminder of some basics (note and interval labels, clefs and transpositions). |
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http://www.tonalityguide.com/tkfiguredbass.php
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| | L’alphabet de la musique, Volume I |
| | Originally scored for flute or violin and figured bass, Schickhardt provided alternative readings for the recorder, by replacing the treble and bass keys by French-violin and baritone keys, respectively. | | | 1685–1762) was the first person to composed a set of sonates for flute and violin and figured bass in all 24 keys. | | | flute or violin and figured bass (harpsichord or organ, with optional cello or bass viol) |
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http://diapason.xentonic.org/dp/dp054.html
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| | Improvisation - Free Encyclopedia |
| | In music, jazz and Bluegrass are well-known for using improvisation. | | | It features in many kinds of traditional music, including flamenco, Carnatic music, Pygmy and other African music, and was once an important element in classical music (see cadenza and figured bass). | | | Improvisation can be structured, with certain rules constraining the improvisation (for example, "make up a song about bicycles", "use these chord changes", and so on), or can have no such constraints (free improvisation). |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/i/im/improvisation.html
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| | Analysis and figured bass |
| | Arabic numerals are used for figured bass or figuring and indicate notes above the Bass voice, primarily as simple intervals. | | | The Arabic numerals of figured bass refer to diatonic intervals by name. | | | When accidentals are used, such as with the dominant chord in minor, the same accidental must appear in the figured bass. |
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http://www.tpub.com/harmony/8.htm
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| | figured bass on Encyclopedia.com |
| | FIGURED BASS [figured bass] in music, a system of shorthand notation in which figures are written below the notes of the bass part to indicate the chords to be played. | | | The harpsichord's part in sonatas was indicated by a figured bass, and the harpsichord and the organ are usually played from a figured bass in the vocal works of Bach and Handel. | | | 69 Boyz: back on bass with hot `Woof Woof' hit |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/f1/figuredb.asp
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| | Figured Bass Notation--The Basics |
| | Numerical figures indicate alterations of the normal triad: a "6" meant that the fifth interval above the root would be replaced by the sixth. | | | (See measure 2.) Adding a "4" to this figuration meant that the third interval (C) should be replaced by the fourth (D). | | | They show (and play aloud) famous examples of thorough-bass accompaniment drawn from Johann David Heinichen's Der General-Bass in der Composition [Thorough-Bass in Composition] (1728). |
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http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/fig01.htm
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| | [Smt-talk] Figured Bass |
| | The notion of a musical auto-didact is very interesting in that there are so many of them, yet the vast majority don't make it to the top. | | | I was very pleased to see this, as it got me thinking again about my long-lost research in notation. | | | Bermudo claims to have invented notations to make it easier to do. |
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http://societymusictheory.org:16080/pipermail/smt-talk/2005-June/002569.html
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| | [Smt-talk] RE : Rothegeb, Schenker, and figured bass |
| | At best, the figures *notate* the voice leading expected by the composer, but the theory of thouroug bass, that I know, never states any independent voice-leading rule. | | | But Schenker is right to thing that a full understanding of 18th-century music should complement thorough bass by a consideration of scale degrees (a point of view that Rothgeb apparently does not share, see below). | | | They merely do not share the same epistemologic status, as I mentioned before. |
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http://societymusictheory.org:16080/pipermail/smt-talk/2005-June/002575.html
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| | Unit03_Triad_in_Inversion |
| | Arabic numerals below the bass note always indicates the size of an interval ABOVE THE BASS NOTE. | | | accidentals on notes other than the third above the bass require the accidental and a number. | | | accidentals by themselves refer to the third above the bass. |
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http://www.jcjc.cc.ms.us/faculty/finearts/jbrown/MUS1223/Study_Material/Unit03_Triad_Inversions/Unit03_Triad_in_Inversion.html
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| | Free figured bass downloads |
| | From 2 to 17 different notes in Bass Clef, 32 free music reading lessons to learn at your own pace. | | | If you want to master the fretboard of guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, or other fretboard instruments, the Absolute Fretboard Trainer will take you... | | | A Small Sample of Bass Guitar Licks in Tablature Notation (the full version contains over 500 licks). |
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http://www.handyarchive.com/free/figured-bass
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| | Entering Figured Bass |
| | Figured bass symbols are a subclass of lyrics, so they are entered and adjusted in a similar way. | | | - The font (and font size) of figured bass symbols can be changed by setting the Lyric font in the Preferences panel or by setting a new font in the Lyric pane in the Music Images panel and the distance of the figured bass from the staff can be adusted using the Lyric position button. | | | The first example shows a variety of figures, while the second shows how line extensions can be used. |
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http://debussy.music.ubc.ca/Helpfiles/OSX/Help/pages/FiguredBass.html
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| | Roman Numerals/Figured Bass |
| | The third (Eb) is in the bass so it must be in first inversion (6). | | | Ok, I've got an Eb in the bass, and up in the higher staff I've got another Eb, a G, and C. So, basically I've got an Eb, G, C chord. | | | Here's what you do: Rearrange the triad until you have something that is stackable as a "root, third, and fifth." SO, take all the notes, write down their names, and stack them in thirds. |
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http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/t109/romfig.htm
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| | What is figured bass, and how can we learn to think like JS Bach? |
| | All the debates that I always get into now, everything--I mean, we're talking Iraq--get back to music and culture, and I think others would agree that that's the biggest axiom to smash with people, in terms of their identity. | | | And the theology of the conductor stinks, and that's why he can't do a good job with the music. | | | So the ground [figured] bass comes in as a perfectly natural part of this whole process from the history of music, in the terms of the changes which are directed. |
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http://larouchein2004.net/pages/questions/youth/030215ics005.htm
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| | Roman numeral and figured bass 2 |
| | One must remember that figured bass was a notational convention used separately from Roman numerals. | | | For example, a minor tonic triad in a major key will simply be labeled "i." The flat third is included in the case of the Roman numeral. | | | The sharp symbol in the figure means "raised," not necessarily "sharp." The distinction lies in theory, not notation. |
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http://www.musictheoryresources.com/members/FA_roman_num2.htm
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| | 3 Sonatas for Flute and Figured Bass Sheet Music 0! |
| | Sheet Music Books Containing Songs Like: 3 Sonatas for Flute and Figured Bass | | | Best-Selling Digital 3 Sonatas for Flute and Figured Bass Sheet Music! | | | Find Sheet Music Books with Songs matching 3 Sonatas for Flute and Figured Bass |
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http://www.laurasmidi.com/cgi-bin/shmtitles.cgi?newtitle=3%20Sonatas%20for%20Flute%20and%20Figured%20Bass
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| | Sixty-Nine Chorales With Figured Bass By Johann Sebastian Bach Sheet Music! |
| | Sixty-Nine Chorales With Figured Bass By Johann Sebastian Bach Digital / Singles Sheet Music | | | Best-Selling Digital Sixty-Nine Chorales With Figured Bass By Johann Sebastian Bach Sheet Music! | | | Sheet Music Books Containing Songs Like: Sixty-Nine Chorales With Figured Bass By Johann Sebastian Bach |
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http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/Sheet-Music/Sixty-Nine%20Chorales%20With%20Figured%20Bass%20By%20Johann%20Sebastian%20Bach.html
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| | iBreatheMusic Forums - Figured Bass |
| | Several numbers together indicate that notes at those intervals above the bass are to be sounded together. | | | For instance, if I'm looking at a piece of music, and it has, say: | | | A 4 written under a bass note designates the note at the diatonic interval of a fourth above the bass note. |
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http://www.ibreathemusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2475
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| | 232triads |
| | The specific intervals above a given bass are abbreviated by using so called figured bass or thoroughbass symbols. | | | The numbers always refer to the intervals above the bass | | | A third is added to a triad, creating an interval of a seventh between the root of the triad and the new note. |
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http://www.sfsu.edu/~music/csg/232/232triads.html
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| | Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music Vol. 11 No. 1 Charlotte Mattax Figured Bass Accompaniment in France. |
| | 5.1 Zappulla devotes a lengthy chapter to French harmonic practice and the construction and figuring of chords. | | | These progressions anticipate by over a decade la règle de l’octave, a harmonization of major and minor ascending and descending scales popularized in France by François Campion in 1716. | | | *Charlotte Mattax (mattax@uiuc.edu) is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Illinois, where she teaches harpsichord, historical performance practice, figured bass, and keyboard studies. |
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http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/jscm/v11/no1/mattax.html
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| | Figured Bass |
| | Figured bass is a system, developed during the baroque period, for indicating what chords should be played with a melody. | | | The realization of a specific figured bass depends on the ability of the player and the style of the music. | | | The single or pair of instruments playing the figured bass is called the basso continuo. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/piano/72815
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| | Roman numeral and figured bass 1 |
| | Notice that the quality of the interval is not included in the figures. | | | The figures indicate pitches within the key; this is how the quality of the interval is determined. | | | The intervals above the bass note are 6 (F), 5 (E flat), and 3 (C). |
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http://www.musictheoryresources.com/members/FA_rom_num1.htm
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| | Essentials of Music - Glossary |
| | Baroque practice consisting of an independent bass line that often includes numerals indicating the harmony to be supplied by the performer. | | | Music that serves either as background or foreground for a film. |
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http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/glossary/f.html
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| | MUSIC 2C |
| | Derive figures from an arpeggiated violin part (Corelli Violin Sonata in D Major, Mvt. | | | Begin playing Corelli slow movement which uses the basic figures of triad, 7th chords and 3 suspension figurings: 5-4, 6-7, 9-8. | | | Read Kraft, Intro to Chapter 7, playing all examples |
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http://music.ucdavis.edu/courses/mus2/syllabus2c03.htm
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| | Re: question on figured bass |
| | > > > >Albert Silverman >(Al is in Wonderland!) >where figured bass is relevant > >> >> Tom >> >> -- Matthew H. Fields http://personal.www.umich.edu/~fields Music: Splendor in Sound To be great, do better and better. | | | In article , Albert Silverman wrote: >On 2005-05-26, Tom K. wrote: >> >> >> And even though the primary use of figured bass seems to be to torture >> harmony students, it was the practical equivalent of the modern "lead sheet" >> in its day! |
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http://www.talkaboutpeople.com/group/alt.fan.albert-silverman/messages/4788.html
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| | Figured Bass Help |
| | Music > Music Theory > Figured Bass He... | | | Furthermore, from beat 3 to 4, the figures seem to imply what I have in the tenor (normally, I would simply tie or repeat the c and leave it be). | | | I also have Gauldin's theory text - Harmonic Practice if I recall, and it to, although a new edition, has lots of typos - especially in the musical example where there are obvious wrong notes or missing pitches. |
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http://www.talkaboutthemusic.com/group/rec.music.theory/messages/67256.html
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| | figuredbass |
| | Using the above chart and a little calculating, you should be able to get both the right notes and figure out what the root is. | | | Remember too that an accidental with no number refers to the third above the given bass note. | | | The note that is not included in the figured bass numbers is the fifth of the chord, which can be added by including a sixth above the bass note. |
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http://raider.muc.edu/~peroneje/figuredbass.htm
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| | SchenkerGUIDE: Figured Bass |
| | They are used in Schenkerian analysis to clarify the harmony if necessary in the absence of inner parts. | | | Using figured bass in analysis' or 'Realizing continuo parts with figured bass') | | | Figured bass was originally a way of clarifying the harmony for continuo keyboard players who only had a bass line to read from. |
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http://www.schenkerguide.com/figuredbass.html
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| | MTO 8.3: Dineen, Figured Bass and Modulation: The *Wiener-Tonshule* of Joseph Preindl |
| | [3.5.5] Bass in descending thirds and ascending seconds; pp. | | | This approach is quite in keeping with a figured-bass conception, since, in describing modulatory distance and relation, it relies only upon intervals expressed in a bass melody, and not upon chordal-roots and the concept of pivot chords, which are extraneous to figured bass. | | | The bass follows a pattern of an ascending fourth followed by a descending third, while the soprano moves by ascending conjunct motion. |
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http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.02.8.3/mto.02.8.3.dineen.html
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| | Continuo in Bach's Vocal Works Part 4 - Examples from the Score |
| | (in the discussion ‘Bass being "actually left out’, see: Continuo in Bach’s Vocal Works - Part 4 [General Topics]) wrote (June 17, 2004): | | | You wonder about those ‘funny’ numbers (figured bass) which are left floating in the air but played rarely, if at all? | | | Over this foundation, the chord changes indicated by the figured bass are supplied by the organist while the singer enjoys having this firm support without feeling entirely abandoned by the continuo group. |
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http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Scores/Continuo4-Sco.htm
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| | figured bass - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | figured bass : Essentials of Music [home, info] | | | figured bass : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info] | | | noun: a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played |
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http://www.onelook.com/?loc=rescb&w=figured+bass
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| | Figured Bass Accompaniment In France. - Theodore Front Musical Literature |
| | Bassoon, Brass Band, Brass Ensemble, Brass, Broadway, Choral, Clarinet, Concerto, Country, Double Bass, Drums, Ethno, Fake Book, Flute, Full Scores, Guitar, Harp, Harpsichord, Horn, Jazz, Keyboards, Lieder, Lute, Mandolin, Marimba, Mixed Ensemble, Oboe, Opera, Orchestral, Organ, Percussion Ensemble, Percussion, Piano, Piano-4 Hands, Popular Music, Rock, String Ensemble With Piano, String Ensemble, String Orchestra, Strings, More... | | | Although this item is not in stock, it is available on back order and | | | Examines various French accompaniment treatises of the thoroughbass period, and offers a thorough analysis of fundamental practices, harmony and figuring. |
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| | FIGURED BASS - Definition |
| | [n] a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them to indicate the chords to be played |
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http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/figured+bass
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| | Figured Bass? - Forums |
| | Unless someone plays from baroque manuscript or facsimile, or arrages them to provide the continuo harmony, there's no demand, is there? | | | You need to learn to understand the figuring FIRST.. | | | The numbers refer to the interval of the extra notes of the chord above the bass note, so a root position chord should be 5 |
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http://forums.abrsm.org/index.php?showtopic=7719&view=getlastpost
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| | Cantata BWV 29 - Provenance |
| | Continuo: [not with figured bass; this part was specifically copied out for the 1749 performance] | | | Organo: [this is the obbligato organ part which also contains the figured bass for other mvts.] | | | Numerous corrections by J. Bach were made in all the parts. |
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http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Ref/BWV29-Ref.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giovanni Francesco Anerio |
| | His style is partly based on the traditions of the sixteenth century, partly on the innovations of the seventeenth which introduced solos with a figured bass. | | | He also arranged Palestrina's celebrated "Missa Papae Marcelli" for four voices, making it more practicable than in its original form of a six-voice mass. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01475e.htm
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| | Figured bass and doubling |
| | This information is now available on CD in Adobe PDF Printable Format | | | When the seventh of the dominant seventh is the lowest sounding note (Bass voice) the third inversion is created. | | | FIGURE 7.6: Second Inversion Dominant Seventh and Resolution |
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http://www.tpub.com/harmony/15.htm
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| | FiguredBass |
| | You should memorize numbers and what inversion they refer to. | | | Keyboardists of the Baroque and Classical periods played from parts that provided only the figured bass. | | | Notice that in the seventh chord figured bass symbols, there is always a set of two consecutive numbers (6 5, 4 3, 4 2 [1 is implied]). |
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http://www.msu.edu/user/millett1/figuredb.htm
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| | Translation of figured bass |
| | He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. | | | figured bass in Hungarian is számozott basszus, generálbasszus |
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http://www.brainytranslation.com/translations/fi/figuredbass280963.html
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| | Spotlight on Robert Zappulla |
| | Zappulla is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Music at Claremont Graduate University in California, and he performs frequently in the Los Angeles area; he has also performed throughout North America and much of Europe. | | | As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt at the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam for one year, and, while there, he decided to write a doctoral dissertation in historical musicology for Utrecht University. | | | His recent book, Figured Bass Accompaniment in France (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2000; preface by Ton Koopman), is a comprehensive study of the numerous French accompaniment treatises produced during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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http://www.zhi.net/spotlight/zappulla.shtml
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| | Tom Pankhurst's TonalityGUIDE: Realising Figured Bass |
| | The following link suggests some things to check for. | | | When you have completed a figured bass exercise, you should put it away for at least a few hours and then return to it in the role of a marker. |
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http://www.tonalityguide.com/week28.php
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