Re: transposable figured bass?

[Thomas Morley]

2015-06-29 18:08 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mattes <address@hidden>:
>
> Am Montag, 29. Juni 2015 15:20 CEST, Stefan Thomas <address@hidden> schrieb:
>
>> Dear community,
>> I run in a problem, when I transpose the below quoted figured bass from g
>> to f.
>> In this  special case the natural sign before the "5" in the 2nd chord
>> should be a flat sign. Is it possible to get a transposable version of this
>> figured bass?
>
> Just a question - is this an example drawn from a historic source?
> What you call a "flat sign" would back then be called a "fa-sign" and
> the corresponing "sharp sign" would be read as a "mi sign". Both "voces"
> are independent of transposition, so "C♭" does _not_ denote a C flat
> (ces) but rather a C-fa which is exactly what is needed in your example
> in _both_ cases, so (in case this is not an original source) you might
> better write 65♭ in the first, untransposed case.
>
> HTH Ralf Mattes



I'd like to  second that, it's what I learned decades ago, iirc ;)

See also the attached png from BWV 121
Sorry for the bad resolution.
(Although the right Hand is not Bach ofcourse.)

The score can be downloaded at
http://imslp.org/wiki/Christum_wir_sollen_loben_schon,_BWV_121_%28Bach,_Johann_Sebastian%29

Cheers,
  Harm

kantate-121.png
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