Where can I find classical music (including Mozart) in figured bass form?

Question

What I'm looking for in particular are chord progressions of some great works of classical music (e.g. Mozart's requiem). Is there a source on the web that collects these?

Answer 1

If you need chord progressions, then Figured Bass's aren't for you. It's been a while since I looked at figured bass lines, but I recall a lot of numbers representing the notes above the root note. So actual chord progressions are buried in there, but not easily recognizable.

Ah yes, I just looked at good ol' wikipedia and figured bass is indeed numbers. What you really want are sets of chord progressions for classical music. Most of the books that are used for music school don't have the chords written in because we're supposed to fill them in. I'm not aware of an entire book of chord progressions for classical music. There are plenty of books that give lots of examples of chord progressions, just head to Amazon.com and search for chord progressions. But for classical works in general you probably need to identify your favorite passages, head to the library, find the score, and do some analysis.

There are probably plenty of midi sites for classical music. You could download the midi files and import them into a music notation app like Finale. I believe the newer notation packages will automatically spit out chords. Keep in mind that it's only software and will get things wrong with more complicated harmonic structures.

Answer 2

Library or music store.