First Italian treatises from the seventeenth century about thorough-bass

a comparative analysis

Authors

  • Stella Almeida Rosa State University of Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2008.54950

Keywords:

thorough-bass, figured-bass, accompaniment, harmony, music history

Abstract

Based on the previous study from three of the first historical sources on Thorough-Bass, plublished in Italy during the beginning of the XVIIth century, this paper presents a comparative analysis between the works by Lodovico da Viadana (1602), Agostino Agazzari (1607) and Francesco Bianciardi (1607), starting from the instructions described in the first one to point out similarities and differences between the ideas and procedures observed in the origins of this technique.

Author Biography

  • Stella Almeida Rosa, State University of Campinas

    Stella Almeida Rosa, pianist and harpsichordist, graduated in piano from UNESP (1987) and holds a master's degree in music (harpsichord) from UNICAMP (2007). She is the pianist of the São Paulo State Symphony Band, dedicated to promoting contemporary Brazilian music, and is a regularly invited musician with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra. As a harpsichordist, she is a founding member of the Engenho Barroco Chamber Orchestra, with which she recorded the CDs 'Engenho Barroco,' featuring European Baroque repertoire, and a collection of three CDs that encompass the 'Musical Collection of Mariana' through the Petrobrás Project for Restoration and Dissemination of Scores, as well as the Bachiana Chamber Orchestra, whose first CD is dedicated to the Orchestral Suites of J.S. Bach. She is dedicated to performing historically informed early music, participating in various chamber music formations with period or modern instruments. She was a professor of 'Introduction to Basso Continuo' at the V Festival 'Music in the Mountains,' held in Poços de Caldas, and teaches chamber music at the Souza Lima Conservatory in São Paulo.

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2008-01-01

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No. 17 (2008): General Topics

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“First Italian Treatises from the Seventeenth Century about Thorough-Bass: A Comparative Analysis”. 2008. Per Musi, no. 17 (January): 41-47. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2008.54950.