Brad Paisley - River Bank

The essence of the new trick wasthat at each moment of sounding, the lowest sound of the accompanying voices (bass) was recorded, and the remaining sounds of these voices were recorded in numbers indicating the interval from the bass. T. about. a new, homophonic writing technique arose: continuous bass (in contrast to the polyphonic lower voice interrupted by pauses) with chords above it. The same technique was used when arranging many-headed. compositions for a lute or for one solo voice with the accompaniment of a lute (the practice of singing one of the voices of a polyphonic composition and performing the remaining voices on instruments has long been used). In the beginning. 17 century an opera conductor (who often was also a composer) prepared the performance, writing out on the basis of G.-b.