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Levin accompanies the orchestra, continuo-style, during the tutti sections--passages when the soloist is normally silent.
Viadana is said to have been the first to use what is called a basso continuo, and even the figured bass.
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Adstantium aliquis misero colaphos continuo ingerebat, quos ille objectis manibus avertere studebat.....
Fremere intanto udia continuo il vento Tra le frondi del bosco e tra i virgulti; E trarne un suon che flebile concento Par d'umani sospiri e di singulti; E un non so che confuso instilla al core Di pietà, di spavento e di dolore.
Cicero, toward the end of his Fourth Book, De Finibus, states some of these as follows: “Ut, inquit, in fidibus plurimis, si nulla earum ita contenta numeris sit, ut concentum [pg 557] servare possit, omnes æque incontentæ sunt; sic peccata, quia discrepant, æque discrepant; paria sunt igitur.” To which Cicero himself aptly answers, “æque contingit omnibus fidibus, ut incontentæ sint; illud non continuo, ut æque incontentæ.” The Stoic resumes: “Ut enim, inquit, gubernator æque peccat, si palearum navem evertit, et si auri; item æque peccat qui parentem, et qui servum, injuriâ verberat;” assuming, that because the magnitude of the interest at stake makes no difference in the mere defect of skill, it can make none in the moral defect: a false analogy.
Perhaps by accident, or perhaps by some mysterious direction which our minds are incapable of appreciating, his eye was arrested by a suite of four movements with a basso continuo, or figured bass, for the harpsichord.
Both of them were sufficiently expert musicians to make reading at sight a pleasure rather than an effort; and Mr. Gaskell especially was well versed in the theory of music, and in the correct rendering of the basso continuo.
My brother, however, was, I fear, not satisfied with my performance, and compared it, very possibly, with that of Mr. Gaskell, to which it was necessarily much inferior, both through weakness of execution and from my insufficient knowledge of the principles of the basso continuo.
Constance was comparatively unused to the figuring of the basso continuo, and found some trouble in reading it accurately, especially in manuscript; but she was able to mask any difficulty she may have had until she came to the Gagliarda.
For instance 'Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar' is scored for soprano, tenor, SSATB choir, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cornetts, 3 trombones, 2 trumpets, timpani, basso continuo, and 'Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele' is for two choirs of SSATB and similar instruments to the previous work.Grove
It comprises sixteen pieces: fifteen sonatas for violin and basso continuo portraying the fifteen Rosary
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