>>> Also, short of having written tablature accompaniment for the d-min >>> lute (such as you have for your lieder), is it at all common for people >>> to read bass figures with a d-min lute? >> No, although some do, with historical precedent. I find the idea >> preposterous and out of character for the axe in question. > > Preposterous? Ok, the > http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-pre1.htm > explaíns > PREPOSTEROUS > Contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous. > > So RT considers playing continuo with d-minor tuned lute "preposterious" > for that "axe". Could it be that he tried, but could not? I cannot do > that myself, but there are some who can. FYI, I even did some Biaggio Marini on mine a few weeks ago.
> (I do not own the d-minor "axe".) Shame on you. > The instrument seems to suit very well to the late baroque idea of > continuo! I cannot see anything "preposterious" in that, but to my > understanding RT's comment is a very good example of a "preposterious" > statement. Why don't you get yourself a 13-course from Timo Contio etc., and then say something informed better? > About continuo: I really like to play it by my big theorbo in a. A preposterously priapic image, indeed. RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
