In my group we often play french music at A=370. 370 is a good pitch for french music, higher than 340 anyway. 392 is the max., and at this pitch muddiness can creep in. Another way to look at it is the strange situation that the 465 theorbo the top string (the second course) is is 349 HZ and at 392 the top string of the archlute is 349 hz. Hey so they really are the same! Unless my math is wrong.... Also with two viols the other viol supplies the missing figures, making more of a duet.
BTW, many of the Forqueray pieces sound great on the Theorbo Single reentrant in G tune the F to E Tune the seventh course Fretted to D Viola! 400 more solo pieces! dt >David: While you might find the theorbo too muddy on the low notes of the >viol, the aesthetic of the day points towards low, low, low! Two viols would >be even more redundant. The solo viol part doubles the bass line more than >half the time. > >I hope we are all free criticize on this list! > >Shaun > >On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:30 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 3/15/2008, "igor ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i agree ! > > > please do that, record your version and show to the italians you can do > > > better and historically more accurate. > > > > I am kind of allergic only of two points in this longish essay: > > > > 1) "show to the italians you can do better": To me this sounds > > nationalistic, there is a sound of "ethnic cleansing". > > 2) "historically more accurate": Sounds to me as "authenticity" - as > > used some decades ago, and rejected one decade later... > > > > I totally agree with David T's comments on the "mistakes" and better > > alternatives, but I shudder when reading igor721's "early music > > (nearly) facism(?)". > > > > All the best, > > > > Arto > > > >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
