Tako Oda wrote:
> I have an organist/harpsichordist friend with whom I'd like to perform
> more, but am utterly clueless as to what early repertoire is available
> specifically for keyboard and alto, as opposed to *continuo* and alto,
> which would imply the addition of a cellist or gambist.
>
You're right, of course, that continuo implies needing another player.
However, I would reckon that a lot of mid-baroque vocal music written
with just a bass line can stand up on its own; I'm not sure I met any
with a fully written out harpsichord part: my guess is that it was very
rarely done, the bass line itself could be treated as a kind of
shorthand.
I had a good book whose title I can't remember now, and haven't seen for
years so it's probably out of print, at least in the UK. I _think_ it
was something like (Old?) English Airs and Dialogues and I _think_ the
editor was Arnold Dolmetsch. None of it is very heavy stuff, though,
quite a lot by William/Henry Lawes, and that master of the understated,
Anon. It began with Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow and included a
setting of Izaak Walton's The Angler's Song.
It sounds as though this is not exactly what you're after, but might do
for an encore or two.
cheers,
Linda
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