Dear Mathias and the List, in that book there are songs with continuo bass. So no instrumental music or tabulature. Of course there is the most proper continuo instrument. Bellerofonte is holding that in the picture, of course. And the music is good!
BTW this is the just the book with the famous reasoning against countertenors/castrati: "And because [the pieces] handle either the love or the anger the lover feels to the loved one, [the music] is represented in the tenor clef, where the intervals are proper, and natural to be told[!] by a male; it appears to the author to be a thing to be laughed at, when a man, with a voice of woman, expresses his reasons, and asks for pity in 'falsetto', to/from his loved one." Years ago I wrote a small "article" on that preface, see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Castaldi.html All the best, Arto On 03 Sep 2010 11:11 GMT, ""Mathias Rösel"" <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> wrote: > S.P.E.S. offer two publications by Belloferonte Castaldi. Besides the > well-known Capricci a due stromenti (Modena 1622), there is another: > > B. Castaldi, Primo mazzetto di fiori musicalmente colti dal giardino > Bellerofonteo, Venezia 1623 > > Does someone know if the second also contains music for the theorbo? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
