On Monday 17 October 2005 16:50, you wrote: hi chris, The book contains a mix of archlute and theorbo pieces and tunings differ continuously unfortunately: some are standard theorbo or archlute, some need the 2nd string in the english tuning like Wilson. If I remember it correct there is also the Melii tuning used. You need to buy the last edition for 50 euros to get some information about the book, I presume, because the Euro 75,- edition contains not a single line of explanation, not even an index. Contains high quality music however and outstanding clothbinding (which cannot be said unfortunately of many Tree editions with their cheapo copyshop character). Taco > Dear list, > > > I'm wondering what instrument or tuning is in > mind for use in the Goess theorbo manuscript. The > TREE edition has "theorbo" printed on the spine but > "theorbo/archlute" on the title page. A quick scan of > the preface proved unhelpful in clearing this up (I > could have missed it, though). > > I don't have easy access to the book, but I did get a > chance to photocopy a portion of the first suite by > Pinel. Reading through it on my French theorbo, > however, makes it clear that at least the 2nd course > of these pieces needs to be in the upper octave. > > Keeping in mind that I've only been able to examine > and play a small portion of the music, does anyone > know whether the pieces in the rest of the book > require an: A)Italian archlute (top two strings in the > upper octave)? B)theorbo with only the first course > re-entrant? C)a double-strung instrument with at least > the second course in octaves? Finally, do any of the > pieces contained in the manuscript actually use the > traditional top two strings in re-entrant tuning? > > > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > > Chris > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Music Unlimited > Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
