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Bass-ics
To anyone who occasionally plays organ continuo (not the most audible of activities unless one pulls out all the stops, which people tend to dislike), the typical agonies of a baroque band’s dou… more →
Tilman Skowroneck
bass-ics
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skowroneck wrote 7 months ago: To anyone who occasionally plays organ continuo (not the most audible of activities unless one pulls … more →
recitatives (dry)
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skowroneck wrote 7 months ago: Most choir directors (if they are into oratorios or passions at all) conduct perhaps two bigger work … more →
We All Use Basso Continuo, but Rarely Notice
trapped1 wrote 1 year ago: Leadsheet notation is the new Basso Continuo History is not so far away – this occurs in music … more →
travel report
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skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: Although I have been reading a book about writing, I am now having a hard time getting started on th … more →
roman: flute sonatas and a swedish mass
skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: In her new two-CD set Johann Helmich Roman’s flute sonatas (Caprice 2007; CAP 22060), flutist … more →
balance of the hands V
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skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: Final post about handedness and keyboard technique Continuo practicing Depending on one’s hand … more →
harpsichord and nyckelharpa
skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: To participate in the St Matthew Passion means that you meet another continuo player, which is somet … more →
keeping the tempo
skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: Another favorite subject, apart from trills, for musicians to get really upset about is the question … more →
a professional mistakes-of-a-third fix
skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: Early May 1992. I am sitting in a train to Skövde on my way to yet another rehearsal, a pile of pho … more →
footprints in history: the continuo arrangement
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skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: I never planned to write about editorial thoroughbass arrangements – I thought this was unnece … more →
can't-hear-thee panic
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skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: Weilburg, a picturesque little town at the Lahn, has a castle and this castle has a Schlosskirche, a … more →
chest organ tuning sense and nonsense
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skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: how to avoid a waste of time and energy Small continuo organs in their boxes that can be driven from … more →
monteverdi in kristianstad
skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: Sunday night I drove back the 3 1/2 hours from Kristianstad after a round of harpsichord continuo in … more →
go figure
skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: It would be a thrill to see a continuo player of the 18th century prepare his part, and to ask him, … more →
st. john's passion and stage nerves
skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: One of my teachers once gave a marvellous talk to his students about stage nerves. We all have them. … more →
a musician's chores 1
skowroneck wrote 1 year ago: clipping and taping Today, the last pdf belonging to an upcoming concert with Le Chardon plinged int … more →
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