Word: continuo
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...solo parts made me think he was playing cadenzas for some Romantic concerti; when the rest of the continuo (which they might rightly be called) come back in, you're left wondering where the rest of the orchestra went. In the fervid parts of the Schumann, their sound had none of the immediacy...
...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...
Baroque Music for soprano, violin and continuo done by Carol Magenau, soprano; Stephen Hefling, violin; Nancy Rich, cello; and Lenora McCroskey, harpsichord. Appleton Chapel, Memorial Church, Harvard Yard...
Evitts also sang a minor Handel Italian cantata. The accompaniment was only of continuo instruments: harpsichord and cello. In these intimate circumstances, Evitts sounded much better...