KSMUS 635B-636B — Continuo Skills in Context

2 credits per semester
Fall and Spring
Avi Stein

This course offers a historically-oriented approach to the technique and practice of continuo skills at the keyboard. Centered on the preparation of current concert programs, areas of focus include basso continuo accompaniment in chamber music, orchestra, and opera in various national styles; related treatises; working with facsimiles; clef reading; and realization and composition of complex harmonic progressions. Required of all Harpsichord majors.