On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:29:00 +0000 (GMT), Martyn Hodgson wrote > I don't have this work either - I think.......
@Monica: are you by any chance refering to https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.441553512620558.1073741827.253474818095096&type=1 (Bartolotti continuo and solo similarities - from https://www.facebook.com/Tiorba)? BTW, there's an image of page 52. or me this example works _much_ better in a non-reentrant tuning (N.B: Ms. one has an error: the second chor should read dfbflat). Why would Bartolotti start thist example with horribly wrong conterpoint? In reentrant tuning the 7-6 would transmogrify into a perfect fifth (f c) "resolving" to a forth (f bflat) [1]. To be followed by a chain of 2nd chords ... Yes, we all know that a 7-6 chain can be inverted (double counterpoint) into a 2-3 chain but we also know this doesn't work with a third voice running a third above the bass (since the fith between this voice and the 7th would invert into a (false/wrong) forth. We know our counterpoint - Bartolotti didn't? This all does not happen with a non-reentrant tuning. The one problematic spot for a non-reentrant tuning is Ms.13 - here the 7th (e natural, second string) would resolve into a 6th (d, fifth string), a problem easily solveable by playing the resolution on the third string. That spot makes much more sense in an reentrant tuning (moving from an open string g in ms. 10 to same note fretted on the second string, third fret ms. 11). > And I'm not quite sure what you mean in the page 6-7 example. But > doesn't the use of higher positions suggest a re-entrant (single > or double) tuning rather than the reverse, since it still allows > for some harmony to be played above the bass line? No. Once you are an the highest string (string 3 for an reentrant tuning) the strings "above" will actually be below. That's exactly what would happen on page 52. Going up the neck is as common on a archlute as it is on a theorbo. Cheers, RalfD [1] Yeah, that's why the called him " ... without doubt the most skillful upon the theorbo". To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
