I think there is a danger of inventing a nonexistent genre. Perhaps in this case there really is a Roman Archlute, but lutes often pop up in sub-genre fads, then some makes the "first recording", and so on.
If there was one common pitch and one type of archlute in Rome, that would be interesting, but in general the historical record seems to favor variety. I still want my Tielke Angelique though, whatever pitch is OK. dt At 11:57 PM 12/7/2007, you wrote: >As said, > all depends on place, time and usage (opera, church, domestic > etc..........). As also said, much has been researched and you may > care to look in the many journals > > MH > >howard posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe both Doni and Mersenne wrote that pitch in Rome was >considerably lower than in Northern Italy, though I'm afraid I'm no >use at all in citing those sources. > > > >> Thank you for this. I'm not sure where Andreas gets his > >> information about Rome pitch > > Andreas wrote: > > The pitch (chorista si San Pietro) was ca. 380 Hz. > > >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >--------------------------------- > Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Tryit now. >--
