Howard,
--- On Tue, 1/10/12, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > > Have you read Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of > Orchestration? It comes from precisely this > period. (You can find English versions online) > I've read portions of it, but it's quite a large document to browse through. Relevant to the topic of this discussion: What does he have to say about the relative merits and defects of gut vs. steel strings during the period of transition? Chris Christopher Wilke D.M.A. Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
