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A THROUGH-BASS
Copyright William F. Long, MMX
harpsichord
bass 2
(optional)
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3
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"Crown the Altar, Deck the Shrine" is an aria from Celebrate this Festival (1693). It is found on page 6
of Book II of Orpheus Britannicus.
The bass is unfigured and, as usual with Purcell's compositions on a ground bass, the harmonies are
often ambiguous. This aria was adapted for a harpsichord piece, A Ground in D Minor. Though that
version does nothing to clarify the harmonies, it does clarify the continuo line by breaking it up into an
eighth note pattern in the tenor over a more slowly descending pattern in a bass part. That bass line has
been adapted for the optional bass 2 part in this version.
The song has been transposed down a third to a more comfortable tessitura.
William F. Long, 2009
Reproduction for non-commercial use permitted.
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Reproduction for non-commercial use permitted.
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bass 2
(optional)
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This aria was adapted for a harpsichord piece, A Ground in D Minor. That version clarifies the continuo line by
breaking it up into an eighth note pattern in the tenor over a more slowly descending pattern in a bass part. That
bass line has been adapted for the optional bass 2 part in this version. If another instrument, e.g. the harpsichord,
plays the regular bass line, the gambist (cellist, bassoonist, etc.) may play the bass 2 part