The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4369 Message #2657780
Posted By: Will Fly
16-Jun-09 - 11:52 AM
Thread Name: The 'Blues Scale'
Subject: RE: The 'Blues Scale'
M.Ted:
improvisation, which is something that doesn't happen in Western Classical Music
Well... up to a point, Lord Copper.
Basso Continuo - usually known as Continuo - was a bass line played by, say, a harpsichord player, who would then fill in the overlaying chord notes, either by arrangement or through improvisation.
One of the frustrations felt by Samuel Pepys, who was an avid musician, was that he couldn't work out the continuo - i.e. he couldn't do the improvisation needed.