Thank you for your postings, Lox. I wasn't ignoring you; I don't have a computer at home and hadn't looked in here since I last posted.


Subject: RE: Basso continuo for classical guitar
From: Lox - PM
Date: 11 May 09 - 02:07 PM

"What are you asking for precisely?"

Just a bit of conversation with people who are interested in the same things. I also wanted to mention the book, which seems good to me.

Triads in root position usually go unfigured; the players are supposed to know. In addition, there is something called "The Rule of the Octave" which specifies the standard harmonizations of the other intervals in the given scale. The chords are somewhat different depending whether the piece (or the current section) is in a major or a minor key. If I'm not mistaken, there are a couple of other ways of harmonizing a melody which the player can use at his or her discretion, but I haven't gotten that far yet and I only saw this when I was looking through the book.

Croton says things like "This harmonization is what later became known as the second inversion of the dominant seventh chord", i.e., it's a lot like what we know as harmony, but not quite the same thing.