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He is active as a continuo lutenist, guitarist, citternist and theorbist, and has performed throughout Europe and North America with the Harp Consort, Baltimore Consort, Schola Antiqua, New York City Opera ; and at the Caramoor, Spoleto and Boston Early Music festivals.
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In conformance with the maximization principle we affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations will be harmonious or inharmonious to the degree that one relation or the other is expected by the active participants to yield the greatest net advantage, taking all value outcomes and effects into consideration.
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Many of these aspects will be seen as comparable to those of the ideal detective, but where the detective is active and militant, the jazz musician is passive, almost a victim of society.
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The Bureau is pursuing an active program to provide a temperature scale and thermometer calibration services in the range 1.5 to 20 Af.
It is also the concern of the Department of State that our trading relationships with the rest of the world are vigorous, profitable, and active -- this is not just a passing interest or a matter of concern only to the Department of Commerce.
The company is still broadening its line and is now active on four major fronts.
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The finding that the concentration of one of these proteases is increased in thyroid glands from TSH-treated animals suggests that this protease may be active in vivo.
There it seems that the goitrogen ingested by dairy animals is itself inactive but is converted in the animal to an active goitrogen, which is then secreted in the milk.
In general, the approach is more active than passive, more out-reaching than reflective.
is and continuo
One way to trace this decline of the continuo and its figured chords is to examine the decline of the term obbligato, meaning a mandatory instrumental part in a work of chamber music.
It is also an accompanying instrument, especially in vocal works, often realizing a basso continuo or playing a written-out accompaniment.
A notable exception is the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 composed by J. S. Bach, scored for 2 violas, cello, 2 violas da gamba, and continuo, in which the two violas were placed in the primary melodic role.
It is his Stabat Mater ( 1736 ), however, for male soprano, male alto, string orchestra and basso continuo, which is his best known sacred work.
It is used for more intimate choral performances, where the main organ is not always appropriate, and with an orchestra, as a continuo organ.
As a composer, Marcello was best known in his lifetime and is now still best remembered for his Estro poetico-armonico ( Venice, 1724 – 1727 ), a musical setting for voices, figured bass ( a continuo notation ), and occasional solo instruments, of the first fifty Psalms, as paraphrased in Italian by his friend G. Giustiniani.
Adopting a formula successfully employed by Mondonville a few years earlier, these pieces differ from trio sonatas in that the harpsichord is not simply there as basso continuo to accompany other instruments ( the violin, flute or viol ) playing the melody but has an equal part in the " concert " with them.
Although Pepusch is now best known for his arrangement of the music for The Beggar's Opera ( 1728 ) -- to the libretto of John Gay -- he composed many other works including stage and church music as well as concertos and continuo sonatas.
The repertoire is graced with several works by Mozart ( including Eine kleine Nachtmusik ) and Haydn which dispense with the baroque basso continuo.
The work is in four movements and is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns ( in E and G ), continuo ( harpsichord ) and strings :< ref name =" hcrl-chronicle-v2 "> HC Robbins Landon, < u > Haydn: Chronicle and Works </ u >, 5 vols, ( Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1976 -) v. 2, < u > Haydn at Eszterhaza, 1766-1790 </ u ></ ref >
Apart from the trio sonata, which is written for flute, violin and basso continuo, the pieces have few indications of which instruments are meant to play them, although there is now significant support for the idea that they are for solo keyboard, like most of Bach's other published works.
A trio sonata is written for two solo melodic instruments and basso continuo, making three parts in all, hence the name trio sonata.
However, because the basso continuo is usually made up of at least two instruments ( typically a cello or bass viol and a keyboard instrument such as the harpsichord ), performances of trio sonatas typically involve at least four musicians, and some 18th-century published editions have duplicate partbooks for the bass ( Mangsen 2001 ).
They are written for basso continuo and two violins, except 1039 which is written for two flutes and basso continuo ( which concurs with BWV 1027 ).
His sonata in D major for flute and basso continuo is still played today.
His Guida harmonica ( c. 1752, with an addendum in 1756 ) is one of the most unusual harmony treatises of the late Baroque, serving as a sort of encyclopedia of basso continuo patterns and realizations.
The cantata is scored for a small orchestra of oboe d ' amore, violins, viola, organ solo and basso continuo.
The second aria is set without continuo, symbolic of the lack of direction in the lives of those who ignore the word of God, as spoken about in the text.
The second recitative is accompanied by the strings and continuo.
The cantata is scored as chamber music for alto, two oboes, two violins, two violas, and basso continuo.
is and lutenist
The player of a lute is called a lutenist, lutanist, "' lewtist " or lutist, and a maker of lutes ( or any string instrument ) is referred to as a luthier.
Gaultier's output, as is to be expected from a 17th-century French lutenist, consists mainly of dance suites for the lute.
Patrick O ' Brien is an American guitarist and lutenist born in New York.
More of his music is preserved than of any other lutenist of the period, and his work continued to influence composers for more than a century after his death.
Little is known about his subsequent career in Rome, but he was still living in the city in early 1526: on 16 January 1526 he and one other lutenist performed for Pope Clement VII and Isabella d ' Este.
It is actually a musical hoax by lutenist and famous mystificator Vladimir Vavilov, who composed this song and credited it after Francesco da Milano.
Julian Bream, CBE ( born 15 July 1933 ), is an English classical guitarist and lutenist and is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century.
It is known that John Dowland-the most famous Renaissance lutenist nowadays-worked as a court lutenist in Denmark from 1598 to 1606.
The presence of an unnamed Heidelberg court lutenist in Basel in 1509 is documented, and as Schlick was an accomplished lutenist, it may have been him.
" Anyone who knows how difficult it is to play harmonic modulations and good counterpoint on the lute will be surprised and full of disbelief to hear from eyewitnesses that Weiss, the great lutenist, challenged J. S. Bach, the great harpsichordist and organist, at playing fantasies and fugues.
Frottole may have been performed as solo voice with lute accompaniment — certainly Marchetto Cara may have performed them this way at the Gonzaga court, as is implied by his renown as lutenist, singer, and composer of frottole — and they also may have been performed by other combinations of singers and instruments as well.
Its most prominent exponent is Roland Ferrandi ( also a lutenist ).
Bálint Bakfark ( also Valentin Bakfark, his name is variously spelled as Bacfarc, Bakfarc, Bakfarkh, Bakffark, Backuart ) ( 1507 – August 15 or August 22, 1576 ) was a Hungarian and Polish composer of Saxon origin, and lutenist of the Renaissance.
" Ray " Lynch ( aka Raymond Lynch ) is a classically trained guitarist and lutenist.
The Consort of Musicke is a British early music group, founded in 1969 by lutenist Anthony Rooley, the ensemble's Artistic Director.
Anthony Rooley ( Leeds, 10 June 1944 ) is a British lutenist.
The earliest documentary evidence pertaining to him, unusually enough, is a picture: he appears as a lutenist on the title page of a 1600 dance manual by Fabritio Caroso ( Nobilità di dame ).
Konrad Ragossnig is a classical guitarist and lutenist.
Hopkinson Smith ( born 1946 ) is an American lutenist.
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