> thanks for your email.
>
> I don't really understand what you mean.
>
> I think if you want a small lute tuned in A at Vivaldi's time it has to
> be an archlute or liuto attiorbato. Of course the lute works dedicated to
> Count Wtrby could have been played in the d minor german lute but never
> with a plectrum.
>
> There is no evidence of the use of the plectrum on baroque instruments (
> mandoline , never the lute) until around 1770. besides Vivaldi write that
> the lute player should play the continuo(in the D minor concerto with
> viola d'amore) when he is not playing the solo part, that also needs
> harmony, at least in the slow movements. If you do not use an archlute
> the violins, cello and violone must use a sordina.
That concerto is entirely designated "con sordino" I believe, which is the
only possible solution for making any lute heard. Otherwise you'd only hear
wrong notes.
RT
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