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... extemporisation seems to increase rather than to diminish as we travel back in musical history . Throughout the ... extemporised by the leader , the continuo - player and a string bass , then the chords make sense ; for they are ...
... extemporisation seems to increase rather than to diminish as we travel back in musical history . Throughout the ... extemporised by the leader , the continuo - player and a string bass , then the chords make sense ; for they are ...
Page 140
... extemporised divisions above them . Unfigured basso seguente parts ( giving the keyboard - player the lowest sounding line of the music ) still exist for the 40 - part motets of Striggio and Tallis , and the rules apply to these as well ...
... extemporised divisions above them . Unfigured basso seguente parts ( giving the keyboard - player the lowest sounding line of the music ) still exist for the 40 - part motets of Striggio and Tallis , and the rules apply to these as well ...
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... extemporised ornamentation of a written poly- phonic part ; it was very much in fashion among singers and instru- mentalists in the larger cities , and a considerable number of surviv- ing treatises on the subject dating from 1535 to ...
... extemporised ornamentation of a written poly- phonic part ; it was very much in fashion among singers and instru- mentalists in the larger cities , and a considerable number of surviv- ing treatises on the subject dating from 1535 to ...
Contents
Sonorities | 29 |
Extemporisation | 59 |
Style in the seventeenth century | 109 |
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