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| continuo music definition: The Facts on File Dictionary of Music Christine Ammer, 2004 The Facts On File Dictionary of Music provides in-depth explanations and examples of more than 3 |
| continuo music definition: Continuo Playing According to Handel George Frideric Handel, David Ledbetter, 1990 This book is an edition, with commentary, of Handel's exercises for continuo playing, which he wrote for the daughters of George II. The exercises, which until now have not been readily available, are supplemented by clear and concise commentary. Remaining faithful to his source, Ledbetter, who lectures in keyboard studies, has prepared an edition that will prove invaluable to students and performers of the music of Handel and his contemporaries. |
| continuo music definition: Bach David Schulenberg, 2020-07-10 Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the original Master Musicians Bach volume's publication in 1983 - even since its revision in 2000, understanding of Bach and his music's historical and cultural context has shifted substantially. Reflecting new biographical information that has only emerged in recent decades, author David Schulenberg contributes to an ongoing scholarly conversation about Bach with clarity and concision. Bach traces the man's emergence as a startlingly original organist and composer, describing his creative evolution, professional career, and family life from contemporary societal and cultural perspectives in early modern Europe. His experiences as student, music director, and teacher are examined alongside the music he produced in each of these roles, including early compositions for keyboard instruments, the great organ and harpsichord works of later years, vocal music, and other famous instrumental works, including the Brandenburg Concertos. Schulenberg also illuminates how Bach incorporated his contemporary environment into his work: he responded to music by other composers, to his audiences and employment conditions, and to developments in poetry, theology, and even the sciences. The author focuses on Bach's evolution as a composer by ultimately recognizing Bach's world in the specific cities, courts, and environments within and for which he composed. Dispensing with biographical minutiae and more closely examining the interplay between his life and his music, Bach presents a unique, grounded, and refreshing new framing of a brilliant composer. |
| continuo music definition: Cognate Music Theories Ignacio Prats-Arolas, 2024-03-01 This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory. Cognate music theories offer a new way of thinking about music theory, music history, and the relationship between insider and outsider perspectives when researchers mediate between their own historical and cultural position, and that of the originators of the music they are studying. With contributions from noted scholars of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, this volume develops a variety of approaches using the cognate music theory framework and shows how this concept enables more nuanced and critical analyses of music in historical context. Addressing topics in music from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this volume will be relevant to musicologists, music theorists, and all researchers interested in reflecting critically on what it means to construct a theory of music. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. |
| continuo music definition: Understanding Music N. Alan Clark, Thomas Heflin, Jeffrey Kluball, 2015-12-21 Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond! |
| continuo music definition: A New Dictionary of Music Arthur Jacobs, 2017-07-28 What is a fugue? What is the difference between a saxophone and a saxhorn? Who besides Puccini wrote an opera called La Boheme? In what year, was the National Broadcasting Company Orchestra formed under Arturo Toscanini's direction? These and thousands of similar questions are answered in this comprehensive dictionary that remains unrivaled as a single-volume summary. A New Dictionary of Music is a basic reference work for anyone interested in music, whether performer or layman.It covers orchestral, solo, choral and chamber music, opera, and (in its musical aspects) the ballet. There are entries for composers (with biographies and details of compositions); works well known by their titles, such as operas and symphonic poems; orchestras, performers and conductors of importance today; musical instruments (including those of the dance and brass bands); and, technical terms. English names and terms are used whenever possible, but foreign terms in general use are cross-referenced. Particular importance has been attached to bringing the reader abreast of new musical developments.The composers and musical works chosen were those most likely to be encountered. Where an opera is given an entry, a brief explanation of the title follows. Similarly explication is provided for other works bearing literary or otherwise allusive titles. Among performers and conductors, only the following are included: those who, although dead, continue to be prominent through recorded performances (e.g. Gigli); the highest-ranking international artists of today, plus a very few apparently on the verge of attaining that rank; and, a few who, though not necessarily at the very head of their profession, are closely associated with composers in bringing out new works, or are conductors in charge of important orchestras. |
| continuo music definition: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Claudel to Dante Stanley Sadie, 2001 |
| continuo music definition: Conversational Enlightenment David Randall, 2019-01-30 Traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, the fine arts, philosophy and public opinion. The book narrates this triumph of conversational style and thought partly as a succession to the oratorical rhetoric that characterized the Renaissance and partly as the victory of the only mode of speech that recognized women as women, and not as imitation men. It also rewrites Jürgen Habermas' history of the public sphere as the history of rational conversation. |
| continuo music definition: Figured Bass Accompaniment in France Robert Zappulla, 2000 This comprehensive study basse continue practice supplements an already sizeable body of literature on thorough bass accompaniment, the emphasis of which has clearly been Italian and German theoretical works. The numerous French accompaniment treatises written during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries seem to have been, with only a few choice exceptions, unjustifiably dismissed by many modern scholars as little more than harmonic tutors, and the discipline of musicology - particularly as it relates to historical performance practice - has definitely suffered as a result. These works certainly do not deserve such a fate, for they provide not only unique documentation of French harmonic theory as it evolved over the course of more than a century, but a wealth of important information regarding XVIIth and XVIIIth century French performance practice as well. Itis the aim of this study to give as full an accounting as possible of basse continue performance as it is documented in the numerous XVIIth and XVIIIth century treatises produced in France, beginning with Nicholas Fleury's Methode pour facilement a toucher le theorbe sur la basse-continue (1660) and continuing through Pierre-Joseph Roussier's Traite des accords, et de leur succession (1764) and his L'harmonie pratique, ou exemples pour le Traite des accords (1775). The issues dealt with in the treatises are treated systematically, and provide the framework for the entire study. |
| continuo music definition: The Harvard Dictionary of Music Don Michael Randel, 2003-11-28 This reference includes: entries on all styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Near East; descriptions of instruments and their historical background; and articles reflecting the contemporary beat, including pop, jazz and rock. |
| continuo music definition: Oxford History of Western Music Richard Taruskin, 2009-07-27 The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c |
| continuo music definition: The Early Baroque Era Curtis Price, 1993-11-09 |
| continuo music definition: Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music Joseph P. Swain, 2023-05-08 Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on composers, instruments, cities, and technical terms. |
| continuo music definition: The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians Don Michael Randel, 2002-10-30 This compact guide to the history and performance of music offers definitions of musical terms; characterizations of forms of musical composition; entries that identify operas, oratorios, symphonic poems, and other works; illustrated descriptions of instruments; and capsule summaries of the lives and careers of composers, performers, and theorists. |
| continuo music definition: Chamber Music Donald Francis Tovey, 2015-02-18 Selections from the famous musicologist's acclaimed Essays in Musical Analysis comprise surveys of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Art of the Fugue plus works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms. |
| continuo music definition: Music for a Mixed Taste Steven David Zohn, 2015 This first full-length study of Telemann's concertos, sonatas, and suites focuses on his imaginative mixing of styles and genres. Special attention is also devoted to the extra musical meanings and humor of his programmatic overture-suites, his unprecedented self-publishing enterprise, and the social resonances of his Polish-style works. |
| continuo music definition: A Dictionary of Musical Morphology Siegmund Levarie, Ernst Levy, 1980 |
| continuo music definition: Baroque Counterpoint Christoph Neidhofer, Peter Schubert, 2023-12-01 This book teaches Baroque compositional techniques through writing and improvisation exercises and analysis of repertoire examples. It provides readers with a historical outlook by focusing largely on principles taught in treatises from the period 1680–1780. This expanded edition includes new sections with keyboard exercises that provide training in Partimento performance as it was practiced at the time, helping students master Baroque style from the inside. While the focus of the book is on fugue, it also treats chorale preludes, stylized dances, inventions, and trio sonatas. The volume is divided into two parts—basic and advanced— which could be taught in a two-semester sequence. There are various options to introduce material from Part II into Part I for a one-semester course. |
| continuo music definition: Cataloging Sound Recordings Deanne Holzberlein, Dolly Jones, 1988 At lasta manual that takes the chore out of cataloging sound recordings! The author clarifies the AACR2 rules (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition) and literally steps through the thought process used in cataloging a sound recording, beginning with what to use as the source for the title, through the physical description and series information. All the examples of catalog cards presented, ranging from the full gamut of 20th century music to spoken records and compact discs, show the full level of descriptive cataloging. The appendixes make this a practical worker's manual; they include order and content of cataloging notes, order of parts in a uniform title, a glossary of musical terms and acronyms, a list of basic reference books and thematic indexes, a complete set of catalog cards, and the Library of Congress rule interpretations for sound recordings. The detailed indexes enhance this important book's utility. |
| continuo music definition: Varieties of Audio Mimesis Allen S. Weiss, 2008 By Allen S. Weiss. |
| continuo music definition: The Pianist's Dictionary Maurice Hinson, Wesley Roberts, 2020-03-03 From A to Z to middle C: An “essential reference” for piano students, teachers, players, and music lovers, with hundreds of definitions (E.L. Lancaster, Alfred Music). The Pianist’s Dictionary is a handy and practical reference dictionary aimed specifically at pianists, teachers, students, and concertgoers. Prepared by Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts, this revised and expanded edition is a compendium of information gleaned from a combined century of piano teaching. Users will find helpful and clear definitions of musical and pianistic terms, performance directions, composers, pianists, famous piano pieces, and piano makers. The authors’ succinct entries make The Pianist’s Dictionary the perfect reference for compiling program and liner notes, studying scores, and learning and teaching the instrument. “This new edition is a go-to source for piano scholars and students for quick information on musical terms, pianists, major works in the piano repertoire, piano manufacturers, and more . . . comprehensive, easy to use.” —Jane Magrath, University of Oklahoma |
| continuo music definition: The Performance of English Song Edward Huws Jones, 1989 |
| continuo music definition: Performing Baroque Music Mary Cyr, 2017-07-05 Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for close study. Readers will find new material on continuo playing, as well as extensive treatment of singing and French music. The book is also a concise guide to reference materials in the field of baroque performance practice with extensive annotated bibliographies of modern and baroque sources that guide the reader toward further study. First published by Ashgate (at that time known as Scolar Press) in 1992 and having been out of print for some years, this title is now available as a print on demand title. |
| continuo music definition: Max Neuhaus Max Neuhaus, 2009 In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. The rich textures of that sound continue today, emanating from beneath the sidewalk grating, to anonymously reach an individual's ears as if one has stumbled upon a secret. Known as Times Square, the celebrated installation was restored in 2002 with support from Dia Art Foundation, which further commissioned a site-specific piece, Time Piece Beacon, from Neuhaus in 2006 for its museum in Beacon, New York. This stunning book--the only volume in print dedicated solely to the work of Neuhaus--takes these two projects as a point of departure from which to consider the singular impact this artist has had in establishing sound as a medium in contemporary art. An interview with Neuhaus is complemented with essays by multidisciplinary scholars who investigate and situate his work within a historical context. Distributed for Dia Art Foundation |
| continuo music definition: Stainer and Barrett's Dictionary of Musical Terms William Alexander Barrett, 1898 |
| continuo music definition: Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600 James Haar, 2023-11-15 These essays illuminate the changing nature of text-music relationships from the time of Petrarch to Guarini and, in music, from the madrigals of Giovanni da Cascia to those of Gesualdo da Venosa. Haar traces a line of development from the stylized rhetoric of Trecento song through the popularizing trends of Quattrocento music and on to the union of verbal and musical cadence that marked the high Renaissance in sixteenth-century Italian music. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. |
| continuo music definition: Music Cataloging Bulletin , 1985 |
| continuo music definition: Music in the Seventeenth Century Lorenzo Bianconi, 1987-11-26 Examines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music. |
| continuo music definition: Basic Music Theory Jonathan Harnum, 2005 Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced teacher using methods refined over more than ten years in his private teaching studio and in schools. --from publisher description. |
| continuo music definition: What Makes Music European Marcello Sorce Keller, 2011-11-17 In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller addresses the little-discussed matters that are essential to an understanding of how music intersects with the life of so many people. Readers are offered an approach for thinking about music that depends as much on its history as on the concepts and attitudes of the social sciences. What Makes Music European concisely demonstrates, to those familiar with Western music, how peculiar Euro-Western concepts of music appear from a cross-cultural perspective. At the same time, it encourages ethnomusicologists to apply their knowledge to Western music and explain to its public how much of what listeners take for granted is, at the very least, highly debatable. |
| continuo music definition: The Rousseauian Mind Eve Grace, Christopher Kelly, 2019-01-17 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is a major figure in Western Philosophy and is one of the most widely read and studied political philosophers of all time. His writings range from abstract works such as On the Social Contract to literary masterpieces such as The Reveries of the Solitary Walker as well as immensely popular novels and operas. The Rousseauian Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising over forty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook covers: The predecessors and contemporaries to Rousseau’s work The major texts of the 'system' Autobiographical texts including Confessions, Reveries of the Solitary Walker and Dialogues Rousseau’s political science The successors to Rousseau’s work Rousseau applied today. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Rousseau’s work is central to the study of political philosophy, the Enlightenment, French studies, the history of philosophy and political theory. |
| continuo music definition: Dictionary of music Hugo Riemann, 1897 |
| continuo music definition: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne, 2004-04-22 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of music available in paperback. Coverage includes musical terms from allegro to zingaro, and musical works from Aida to Zauberflote, as well as composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras. It provides a mine of information for all lovers of music. The book includes musical instruments and their history; and covers living composers and performers, with over 150 added for this edition.--BOOK JACKET. |
| continuo music definition: The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo Giulia Nuti, 2017-07-05 Basso continuo accompaniment calls upon a complex tapestry of harmonic, rhythmic, compositional, analytical and improvisational skills. The evolving knowledge that underpinned the performance of basso continuo was built up and transmitted from the late 1500s to the second half of the eighteenth century, when changes in instruments together with the assertion of control by composers over their works brought about its demise. By tracing the development of basso continuo over time and across the regions of Italy where differing practices emerged, Giulia Nuti accesses this body of musical usage. Sources include the music itself, introductions and specific instructions and requirements in song books and operas, contemporary accounts of performances and, in the later period of basso continuo, description and instruction offered in theoretical treatises. Changes in instruments and instrumental usage and the resulting sounds available to composers and performers are considered, as well as the altering relationship between the improvising continuo player and the composer. Extensive documentation from both manuscript and printed sources, some very rare and others better known, in the original language, followed by a precise English translation, is offered in support of the arguments. There are also many musical examples, transcribed and in facsimile. Giulia Nuti provides both a scholarly account of the history of basso continuo and a performance-driven interpretation of how this music might be played. |
| continuo music definition: Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogues of the Library of Congress Library of Congress, Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division, 1966 |
| continuo music definition: Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogs of the Library of Congress [from 1897 Through June 1964] Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division, 1966 |
| continuo music definition: A dictionary of musical terms, ed. by J. Stainer and W.A. Barrett sir John Stainer, 1898 |
| continuo music definition: The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music Timothy K. Smith, 2002-08-06 For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know. The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan A concise history of classical music A deconstruction of the art form The language of classical music Valuable resources for the Curious Listener |
| continuo music definition: HANDBOOK OF MUSIC TERMS PARKS GRANT, 1967 |
| continuo music definition: Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability W. Dean Sutcliffe, 2023-02-16 Sociability may be a key term of reference for eighteenth-century studies as a whole, but it has not yet developed an especially strong profile in music scholarship. Many of the associations that it brings do not fit comfortably with a later imperative of individual expression. W. Dean Sutcliffe invites us to face up to the challenge of re-evaluating the communicative rationales that lie behind later eighteenth-century instrumental style. Taking a behavioural perspective, he divides sociability into 'technical' and 'affective' realms, involving close attention both to particular recurring musical patterns as well as to some of the style's most salient expressive attributes. The book addresses a broad span of the instrumental production of the era, with Haydn as the pivotal figure. Close readings of a variety of works are embedded in an encompassing consideration of the reception of this music. |
what does continuo mean? - Music: Practice & Theory Stack …
Oct 24, 2021 · 'Continuo' is thorough bass or more commonly figured bass, or basso continuo. At the start of the 17th C, unaccompanied choral music was declining, and vox accompanied by …
When realizing a basso continuo, should the realization avoid ...
Aug 25, 2021 · Many continuo manuals (both historical sources and modern treatises) are careful to point out that a continuo realization should be contrapuntally correct, i.e., one ought to avoid …
Why was basso continuo not widely used after the baroque period?
The basso continuo was a standardized sort of accompaniment, typically given a bass line and chord symbols only and filing in the chords ad libitum. J.S. Bach was already beginning to …
The Basso Continuo and the Jazz Rhythm Section
Sep 26, 2017 · The Baroque equivalent of the jazz rhythm section was the basso continuo. The term refers to a continuous bass line in a Baroque piece, with harmonies improvised on top of …
performing - Replacing Viola and Basso continuo - Music: Practice ...
Historically, basso continuo was always played with a harpsichord or organ or lute or theorbo for the continuo, and a bowed string bass instrument or bass reed instrument for the basso. At …
Help understanding basso continuo in Vivaldi's 'La Folia'
Dec 23, 2021 · In the original publication of the piece, the cello part is a "cello/continuo" part and includes figured bass. The 'La Folia' sonata is number 12 in Vivaldi's Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. …
notation - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
Dec 10, 2015 · A continuo instrument (harpsichord, or organ, theorbo, or lute) also plays the bass line in unison with the bass instrument, but the continuo player also improvises a chord …
history - Did continuo players consider figured bass as "interval ...
Aug 11, 2020 · Today we'd label them with different Roman numerals, but the 6/4 and 5/4 had a kind of affinity to continuo players in their function. Skilled players also would begin to note …
baroque period - Why does the conductor also play harpsichord …
(A popular arrangement in a church, for example, was to put the orchestra near the altar (perhaps with a harpsichord continuo), and the soloists in the organ loft, or vice versa.) Another …
harmony - How to realize a figured bass - Music: Practice
Sep 12, 2019 · Basso continuo realization can vary from simple harmonization to extensive explorations of harmony and counterpoint. A “full accompaniment” may require as many notes …
what does continuo mean? - Music: Practice & Theory Stack …
Oct 24, 2021 · 'Continuo' is thorough bass or more commonly figured bass, or basso continuo. At the start of the 17th C, unaccompanied choral music was declining, and vox accompanied by …
When realizing a basso continuo, should the realization avoid ...
Aug 25, 2021 · Many continuo manuals (both historical sources and modern treatises) are careful to point out that a continuo realization should be contrapuntally correct, i.e., one ought to avoid …
Why was basso continuo not widely used after the baroque period?
The basso continuo was a standardized sort of accompaniment, typically given a bass line and chord symbols only and filing in the chords ad libitum. J.S. Bach was already beginning to …
The Basso Continuo and the Jazz Rhythm Section
Sep 26, 2017 · The Baroque equivalent of the jazz rhythm section was the basso continuo. The term refers to a continuous bass line in a Baroque piece, with harmonies improvised on top of …
performing - Replacing Viola and Basso continuo - Music: Practice ...
Historically, basso continuo was always played with a harpsichord or organ or lute or theorbo for the continuo, and a bowed string bass instrument or bass reed instrument for the basso. At …
Help understanding basso continuo in Vivaldi's 'La Folia'
Dec 23, 2021 · In the original publication of the piece, the cello part is a "cello/continuo" part and includes figured bass. The 'La Folia' sonata is number 12 in Vivaldi's Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. …
notation - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
Dec 10, 2015 · A continuo instrument (harpsichord, or organ, theorbo, or lute) also plays the bass line in unison with the bass instrument, but the continuo player also improvises a chord …
history - Did continuo players consider figured bass as "interval ...
Aug 11, 2020 · Today we'd label them with different Roman numerals, but the 6/4 and 5/4 had a kind of affinity to continuo players in their function. Skilled players also would begin to note …
baroque period - Why does the conductor also play harpsichord …
(A popular arrangement in a church, for example, was to put the orchestra near the altar (perhaps with a harpsichord continuo), and the soloists in the organ loft, or vice versa.) Another …
harmony - How to realize a figured bass - Music: Practice
Sep 12, 2019 · Basso continuo realization can vary from simple harmonization to extensive explorations of harmony and counterpoint. A “full accompaniment” may require as many notes …
