>Plenty of examples, the earliest being several piece in the >Capirola lute >book.
>Kenneth Be Glad this question came up, as I'm confused about this. I can see in for instance in Padonana by Capriola is pretty straight forward, but what about a Pavana alla Ferrarese by Dalsa, that indicates tuning the 6th course down a step yet at the same time shows an open "a'' on the 6th courses as well? Michael Thames www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 7:36 AM Subject: Re: Mudarra's bordon > In a message dated 5/27/2005 7:10:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't know whether any 16th century lute music involves tuning the 6th > course down a tone. Perhaps someone on the list can tell us. > > Plenty of examples, the earliest being several piece in the Capirola lute > book. > > Kenneth Be > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
