Tuesday, 14th March 2006, Conservatory of Geneva

Early Italian basso continuo, a synthesis of accompanying practices of the late renaissance

Seminar by Bernhard Lang

Based on an overview on the most important sources (Ortiz, Viadana, Agazzari, Bianciardi, Praetorius) and illustrated by example compositions, the participants will have the possibility to experiment with the rich variety of improvised and written out accompaniment in the music of the late renaissance and the early baroque.

Example pieces

Diego Ortiz	Recercada "Quinta Pars" and Recercada Sobre O Felici Occhi Miei from Trattado de glosas sobre clausulas..., Roma 1553
Luzzasco Luzzaschi	Aura soave from Madrigali [...] per cantare e suonare a uno e doi e tre soprani, Roma 1601
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana	N.N.from Li Cento Concerti Ecclesiastici, Roma 1602
Giovanni Paolo Cima	Sonata 2 per il Violio e Violone from Concerti Ecclesiastici a 1.2.3.4.5 & 8.voci & sei sonate, Per instrumenti a due, tre e quatro, Milano 1610
Claudio Monteverdi	O Quam Pulchra es
Barbara Strozzi	Salve Regina from Sacri musicali affetti
Heinrich Schütz	O süsser, o freundlicher and Ich will den Herren loben allezeit from Kleine Geistliche Konzerte, Leipzig 1636
Alessandro Scarlatti	Da sventura a sventura, air from the canta of the same name.

Interested participants can sign up for the preparation of one of the example pieces.