Talk:Lament bass

Musical works with a lament bass

 * "Dido's Lament" by Henry Purcell
 * "25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago
 * "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" recorded by Led Zeppelin
 * "Brain Stew" by Green Day
 * "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" by The White Stripes
 * "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles
 * "Hit the Road, Jack" by Ray Charles

I removed the above as uncited. Hyacinth (talk) 02:41, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Harmonization of diatonic A minor lament
Okay, this bothers me every time I come to this page. Who in the world made the harmonization to the diatonic A minor lament bass in one of the figures to this article? First of all the spacing of the notes is uncharacteristic for a basso continuo realization. Second, and most obviously, this is a chord progression that has nothing to do with the Baroque. Parallel root position chords are clearly forbidden by the rules of counterpoint (and therefore the rules of basso continuo), and the last chord is minor v, which does not occur in common practice period music anyways. --♦♦♦Vlmastra♦♦♦ (talk) 18:20, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Vivaldi example
There is a mistake in the Vivaldi example: in the third bar, the tenor voice (viola in the original) should be f rather than g (there is a manuscript on IMSLP, but you can also clearly hear it). Not sure how to correct is; I could replace it by a corrected version in Lilypond though. DaanAlberga (talk) 11:15, 2 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I've corrected it. DaanAlberga (talk) 19:52, 3 August 2023 (UTC)