I made this fun little musical recipe to make your own recitatives Mozart style. Of course the Master uses way more tricks than this but this is enough to get you started and cover 75% of His applications. Its quite hard to type figured bass in a web browser so pardon by ghetto notation. Global assumptions: a) I can be …
When a viewer observes a painting there is a “oh, well there it is” moment when the frame is first presented – it is first taken in as a whole and then the details are discovered upon closer examination. Music is also largely in the moment – details first – and then the whole comes second if it comes at …
The basses are one of the most ill-understood instruments of the orchestra; pigeonholed to pages of footballs and rests. Yet, their orchestral origin was nearly identical in intent to the cellos – as for most of the baroque and classical era they were doubling each others parts at the octave. Now consider that modern bassists have all played and studied …
