.. and it provides a certain color to the sound. A year or so ago I attended a performance of St.John passion which had a much to large choir and a double orchestra but just one archlute. And even there the archlute (okay - no baroque lute) was well hearable. Donatella made a good point: It also depends on how you play continuo. When you just strum chords you are just doubling the Cello (and/or ...) but when you create your voice you will be heard.
Best wishes Thomas Am Sam, 2004-03-27 um 09.44 schrieb steffen gliese: > ..which is more than you can say about a second-row violinist > in the Philharmonics. > Steffen > > Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:19:05 -0500, Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > skrev: > > >> Also the theobo plays it's role in the baroque orchestra. > > As an internal metronome in polychoral music, to keep the beat when the > > conductor is too far to see/hear. This is an old trecento practice: to > > put a > > harpist in a remote choir to keep them together, audible only to the the > > singers themselves. > > RT > > > > > > > > -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
