Harmony and counterpoint

Vivaldi- Trio sonata RV 103

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Opening post by antares86

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Good evening everyone! I have to provide the figured bass for this trio sonata for flute, oboe, and basso continuo, there is just one very slight problem... They gave me a score that is borderline obscene with errors even in the two soloists, and the continuo part written out in full (imagine how that part can be ahahahah) which I am thinning out and correcting since it has parallel fifths, false relations in seventh progressions that don't resolve... In short, it's poorly made.

Now to the problem: dominant pedal in D minor, Vivaldi precedes the measure, arrives at the dominant then rests on B-flat/G#-A-F#, now the second is clearly the tonic, and the first seems like an appoggiatura to me... But this guy... He put a diminished seventh that isn't diminished because the third is diminished... In short, this stuff sounds terribly out of tune, but I don't quite know how to fix it... I am attaching a photo of the passage to be clearer.

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Reply 2 by Gerardo

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I didn't quite understand the context, could you post the full page and furthermore, the continuo player knows what to do with the continuo part... they don't need suggestions. I didn't understand although of the origin, the function of this score and what is Vivaldi's.

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Reply 5 by antares86

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The part is the pedal ahahahahah anyway I'm leaving half the pedal to casto only if you want to see the whole score I can send it

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Reply 6 by Gerardo

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We didn't understand each other, in this example there is the basso continuo

https://www.google.it/search?q=basso+continuo+immagini&biw=1920&bih=963&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSpILOmL3SAhWB2BoKHQUNBJkQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=xQH6JzosrOqo4M:

https://www.google.it/search?q=basso+continuo+immagini&biw=1920&bih=963&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSpILOmL3SAhWB2BoKHQUNBJkQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=xQH6JzosrOqo4M

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Reply 9 by antares86

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Yes abatino but I'll only give you the bass and the soloists without realization ahahahah wait a moment

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Reply 10 by Gerardo

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As also happens in Bach, the figured bass is not always available. The continuo player for whom they improvise following the bass line, synthesizing the harmony through the other parts

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Reply 11 by antares86

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Eh I know, but the problem with that point was a passage with two appoggiatura notes at the interval of a diminished third over a dominant pedal, but I solved the problem by holding the key down until the cadence

PS abate did you want Vivaldi's original score or my complete realization? Ahahahah I am about fifty measures from the end of the entire trio.

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