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Étiqueté : History of musical forms

Parution : Livio Ticli (dir.), “Figured Bass Accompaniment in Europe”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024

At the very end of his new and charming chapter included in this volume, Thomas Christensen sensuously claims that for each generation, figured bass has something new to say, though it rarely gives up its secrets without a fight. This book, therefore, attempts to do justice to the fight lead by sixteen internationally-renowned scholars who ventured mapping the figured bass accompaniment in Europe through a wide timespan: from the early-seventeenth-century Germany to late continuo realisations...