Word: continuo
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...Camerata. But producing a Baroque opera is more complicated than using the right instruments. One must also decide how many of them there are to be, and which; in those days, orchestration was rarely indicated. The accepted practice is to accompany the singer with a small ensemble called the continuo, which usually consists of a harpsichord and low strings. Other parts are added occasionally to provide color or a ceremonial touch...
...laborers and executives, secretaries and politicians who were too unique to prove his thesis about the degradation of the assembly tine and the anonymity of office work. In Hard Times, he set out to collect memoirs of the Great Depression and ended with an elegy for 133 voices and continuo. For his new volume, American Dreams: Lost and Found, Terkel has abandoned any attempt at doctrine. There is only, he admits, "in the manner of a jazz work, an attempt, of theme and improvisation, to recount dreams, lost and found, and a recognition of possibility...