On Jun 20, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Martin Shepherd wrote: > [Dowland] says that the practice of using octaves (on the 6th) was > "nowhere so much used as here in England", implying that the poor > backward English lutenists [perhaps endowed with inferior strings] > clung > to their old habits longer than others
Dear Martin, I'm just curious: in what ways were the Englisn lutenists considered backward, and endowed with inferior strings? > ...John Johnson, Francis > Cutting, and Anthony Holborne all contain passages which suggest that > this was not an unusual tuning in England in the 1590s. Once again, out of curiosity: how can some passages suggest either octave or unison stringing? Best regards, David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
