Basso Continuo Figures | Basic explanation
Figures are a fundamental part of basso continuo practice in the 17th and 18th centuries. They were used to improvise accompaniments, but also in improvisation pedagogy for soloists, for example in Partimento Training.
In this video series The Scroll Ensemble is providing the very first, simplest step to learn how to read those figures on your instrument, and also giving monodic melodic instrumentalists, like violinists or recorder players, the chance to practice even before the basics for most keyboard players.
This video gives a basic explanation of where, how and when these figures were used.
00:26 Musical Example
02:33 When and What
04:24 How do the Figures work?
05:37 Not Literal
06:02 What is not written
The rest of our Practising Figures series, including the explanation video:
• Practise Basso Continu...
More about Partimento:
• Partimento for monodic...
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I would highly recommend anyone totally into learning Figured Bass to check out Derek Remes translations of old exercise workbooks including Kellner, "Grundriss des Generalbasses Basics of Thoroughbass (1783)" . His materials have been well worth the small cost. And he also has amazing youtube videos to go along with these exercises to make sure student answers are correct. I wish I had an instructor like that in grade school ! The question about figured bass still bugging me though is "what to do?" when orchestrating figures for more than 3 or 4 voices. For example, the brass quintet piece I am writing now (5 voices, so something has to double, or ..?). Or six voices etc.
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Yes Derek's materials are amazing! Can totally concur :)