Dear Shaun,
I was just looking for these as well. As far as I know there are no translations, but Bartolomi, Fleury and Grenerin are more or less understandable from their music examples alone (helped by a very basic knowledge of French). Are you looking for Campion's 1716 treatise (in which he talks about harmony and accompaniment in general) or the "Addition au traite d'accompaniment" from 1730 (which is much larger, and contains more specific info about theorbo, lute and guitar)? If the latter, there is an article by Kevin Mason: Franc,ois Campions Secret of Accompaniment for the Theorbo, Guitar and Lute. This is in Journal of LSA, Vol XIV (1981). Mason sums up Campion's main points. You can find a modern edition of Grenerin here: [1]http://luthlibrairie.free.fr/?Baroque:Fran%26ccedil%3Baise I think there might be some mistakes in it, but I haven't been able to get hold of the facsimile to check it. In LSA Journal Vol XIX (1986) you can find a review of the facsimile edition, again by Kevin Mason, which contains some interesting information. Good luck, and let me know if you find anything else! Sam 2010/10/30 Shaun Ng <[2]shaunk...@gmail.com> Dear All, Does anyone happen to know if there are English translations of the following treatises and if they are available (either original or translation) online? Angelo Michele Bartolotti: Table pour apprendre facilement `a toucher le theorbe sur la basse-continue (Paris, 1669) Franc,ois Campion: Traite d'accompagnement et de composition selon la regle des octaves de musique, op.2 (Paris, 1716/R) Henry Grenerin: Livre de theorbe contenant plusieurs pieces sur differents tons, avec une nouvelle methode tres facile pour apprendre `a jouer sur la partie les basses continues et toutes sortes dairs Thanks very much in advance. Shaun -- To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Sam Chapman Oetlingerstrasse 65 4057 Basel (0041) 79 530 39 91 -- References 1. http://luthlibrairie.free.fr/?Baroque:Fran%26ccedil%3Baise 2. mailto:shaunk...@gmail.com 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
