At 12:23 PM 7/6/2005, Markus Lutz wrote: >I would even assume, that the lute in the vivaldi concerts should play >also the bass parts.
I agree. I believe Vivaldi was only sketching a solo line in violinist's shorthand and expected competent lutenists to do the rest. >P.S.: BTW - some of the Vivaldi lute concerts belong to the Dresden >concerts as far as I know - I don't know any famous mandolino player at >that time ;-). There seems to be precious few mentions of mandolin virtuosi in that era, but Tyler and Sparks claim there are more gut-strung, fixed-bridge, fourth-tuned mandolini in collections than proper lute kin. While I haven't endeavored to quantify the claim, I believe it based upon limited personal experience. Interestingly, Johann Adolf Hasse was also employed at Dresden and wrote a rather well-known concerto for mandolino. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
