Forty years ago the continuo section of an early music performance hardly ever featured a finger-plucked instrument. The theorbo and archlute have since then become 'standard', providing bread and butter work for competent continuo players.
Miles On 2013-08-12, at 10:45 AM, William Samson wrote: > Nowadays, of course, there are very many more great quality lutenists > than there were forty years ago, but there's not nearly enough work to > go round to keep them all busy as concert performers. Probably their > best hope of earning a crust is through teaching - either in academia > or with private students - and grabbing a performing opportunity when > it presents itself. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
