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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of
William Samson
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 3:47 PM
To: David Tayler; lute
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Chitarrone
I'm afraid you are correct, David. Of course Bob Spencer isn't to
blame - he just wrote up what was known at the time. The trouble is
that much of what is now known (and much of what was known in Spencer's
time too) hasn't been put into practice by musicians. How
many performances using the 'English' theorbo, with stepped nuts and
double courses in the diapasons, have we heard? And yet the late 17th
century was a very rich time in the development of music and
instruments. According to Mace this theorbo sometimes had only the top
course tuned down an octave - There aren't many theorboes tuned like
that these days.
There's still plenty of fallow ground for players of plucked
instruments who are prepared to stray from the mainstream and for
researchers to back them up.
Bill
From: David Tayler <vidan...@sbcglobal.net>
To: lute <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2012, 18:28
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Chitarrone
Research into the Chitarrone stopped after the publication of the
famous article by Spencer, et al. This had the astonishing effect of
erasing, removing and deleting the Chitarrone from the early music
performance revival. Collateral effects include the sidelining of the
many other types of extended neck instruments that were developed in
the early 17th century. Renewed interest into the research of this
and
other instruments will yield clues as to the specific meanings of the
contemporaneous terms as well as hopefully renew interest in playing
the instruments.
Erasing instruments is not new; the dulcian was completely erased for
decades before one was discovered with an identifying label in a
sunken
pirate ship. Now people are playing it again.
--- On Tue, 10/16/12, Bruno Correia <[1]bruno.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Bruno Correia <[2]bruno.l...@gmail.com>
Subject: [LUTE] Chitarrone
To: "List LUTELIST" <[3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 6:11 PM
The Grove Dictionaire says about the chitarrone:
"The type of lute denoted by this humanist, classicizing term
(chitarrone means, literally, a large kithara) was associated
particularly with Jacopo Peri, Giulio Caccini and the other early
writers of monody from the 1590s until about 1630."
Has anybody challenged this etymology? Wouldn't be safe to say it
simply derived from the chitarra (guitar)? Is was developed in
the
first place to acompany, playing chordally from a contino line,
just
as
the 5 course guitar would do, though without the struming
technique.
The solo repertoire that came later looks very close to the
guitar
writing: chords a little counterpoint, arpeggios, slurs,
campanellas
efect e so on...
--
Bruno Correia
Pesquisador autonomo da pratica e interpretac,ao
historicamente informada no alaude e teorba.
Doutor em Praticas Interpretativas pela
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
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