> Whilst, as you'll be aware, there are quite a number of intabulated > accompaniments fr Dm lute from the 18thC, surely a professional continuo > player (eg SL Weiss) from that period played from staff notation? Indeed > isn't there a letter from him to say he couldn't be bothered to use the old > theorbo tuning when playing BC and invented the new theorbo tuning (which we > now understand to be the Dm lute tuning without the top f). Also I believe > the Hasse (and others) Opera parts for theorbo are in staff notation. Is this > what you meant about historical precedent? > Martyn The historical precedent suggests that Dresden 80+cm theorbo was tuned in d-minor, sans chanterelle. This has NOTHING to do (aside from borrowing the tuning for expediency) with our "garden variety" Baroque-Lute, which occupies an entirely different aesthetic world. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv
> > Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> Regarding the theorbo's top range, aren't the top 6-courses tuned the >>>>> same as a G ren-lute? So, >>>>> At least according to this it is >>>>> http://www.johndoan.com/instruments/harpguitar/tuning.html >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I'm not sure about the accuracy of this page. >>>> >>>> >>> His TORBAN tuning is out of whack as well. >>> >>> >> >> The first thing I thought that was odd was the basses on the 8-course >> lute not being tuned step wise. Anyway, thanks for claifying about the >> theorbo actually being an archlute tuning, which leads back to my >> question of how is a theorbo typically tuned? > Basically the same, + 2 upper strings tunes an 8ve down. And a smaller > theorbe-de-pieces wholesale higher. > >> >> 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. > RT > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > --
