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Re: Telemann's "Strich"
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Robert Blackstone |
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Re: Telemann's "Strich" |
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Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:22:54 +0100 |
Hello Richard,
I should have shown a bit more of Telemann's original.
Telemann writes his figures above the bass staff, and only occasionally, when
there is not enough space for two numbers on top of each other, the bottom will
go below the staff. I think that what you saw as figures are actually
references to "footnotes" below the music.
So no, I don't think they are figured bass extenders (aren't these horizontal
lines following a number or an accidental? Nowhere in this collection there is
such a horizontal line.)
Telemann uses the straight lines much like slurs, and in some of his songs one
can find them both, curved and straight slurs, apparently for the same purpose,
judging from his realization.
Best regards,
Robert
> On 20 dec. 2015, at 12:52, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 12:44 +0100, Robert Blackstone wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>>
>> I’m working on a bilingual edition of Telemann’s Singe-, Spiel- und
>> General-Baß-Übungen, a very nice little tutorial consisting almost
>> entirely of songs with a figured bass line and a written-out
>> realization.
>> In the bass lines Telemann sometimes adds short straight lines
>> parallel with the note heads, a sort of straight slur, indicating that
>> the right hand should not play chords except on he first on these
>> “slurred” notes. See the attached Telemann's_Strich.png
>
>
> aren't these just figured bass extenders? These are standard in
> LilyPond.
>
> Richard
>
>
>