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RE: Music Life - A Little Bit of Cellist Hell with Canon in D, and Some Sleepy Time with a Vivaldi Concerto
That means that those playing continuo parts were great at improvising, or should be! Or else, if they played non-harmonic notes when they shouldn't...They would be in big trouble!
They were! Improvisation is a lost art in classical music. It used to be done in all instruments, and it was a normal thing to be able to do it well and in the style and affect of the piece. Early music has brought some of this back!