I would highly recommend anyone totally into learning Figured Bass to check out Derek Remes translations of old exercise workbooks including Kellner, "Grundriss des Generalbasses Basics of Thoroughbass (1783)" . His materials have been well worth the small cost. And he also has amazing youtube videos to go along with these exercises to make sure student answers are correct. I wish I had an instructor like that in grade school ! The question about figured bass still bugging me though is "what to do?" when orchestrating figures for more than 3 or 4 voices. For example, the brass quintet piece I am writing now (5 voices, so something has to double, or ..?). Or six voices etc.
I would highly recommend anyone totally into learning Figured Bass to check out Derek Remes translations of old exercise workbooks including Kellner, "Grundriss des Generalbasses Basics of Thoroughbass (1783)" . His materials have been well worth the small cost. And he also has amazing youtube videos to go along with these exercises to make sure student answers are correct. I wish I had an instructor like that in grade school !
The question about figured bass still bugging me though is "what to do?" when orchestrating figures for more than 3 or 4 voices. For example, the brass quintet piece I am writing now (5 voices, so something has to double, or ..?). Or six voices etc.
Yes Derek's materials are amazing! Can totally concur :)