Christensen: 18th Century Continuo Playing
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In his figured bass tutor Jesper Bøje Christensen, a teacher at the Schola Cantorum in Basle, shows readers how to produce stylistically accurate figured bass realisations, whether written beforehand or improvised in performance. He has taken an unusual approach: the various figured bass manuals of the early eighteenth century – by Dandrieu, St. Lambert, Heinichen, Telemann and others – are clearly organised and logically structured and contain practical tips for playing from a figured bass. Christensen has put these sources together and added comments and written-out examples of his own.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter I - French Figured Bass from Roughly 1690 to 1720 Experts from Michel de St. Lamber: Nouveau Traité de l' Accompagnement de Clavecin (1707), Excerpts from Jean-François Dandrieu: Principies de l' Accompagnement de Clavecin (1719)
Chapter II - German Figured Bass from Roughly 1710 to 1735 Excerpts from Johann David Heinichen: Der General-Bass in der Composition (Dresden, 1728) and Georg Philipp Telemann: Singe-, Spiel- und General-Bass-Übungen (Hamburg, 1733-4)
Chapter III - Other Essential Aspects of Figured Bass Playing
Postface
Sources and References