I don't understand the text of Besard like that (nor Souris did, and he
explain that widely in his introduction of the CNRS Besard). All the
courses from 10th to 3rd are an octave up, and the 2 top strings are as
"normal" G lute (so re-entrant tuning, not far from tiorbino).
Le Mercredi 21 mai 2014 23h45, Thomas Walker <twlute...@hotmail.com> a
ecrit :
Thanks kindly, everyone! It's what I suspected, but the comparative
rarity of an "ordinary" lute in reentrant tuning sent my looking for
some verification.
Cheers,
tom
> Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 20:17:25 +0200
> To: [1]mar...@luteshop.co.uk; [2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
> From: [3]jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus
>
> " Nous appelons celui-ci "Nouveau Luth" non parce qu'il aurait une
forme (construction) nouvelle, mais seulement `a cause du nouvel
accord, qui n'est pas ingrat selon l'opinion de maintes (personnes).
C'est nous qui l'avons invente un jour. S'il differe peu en accord du
theorbe (comme on l'appelle), pourtant bien avant de connaitre cet
instrument j'accordais souvent le luth de cette maniere, mieux apte
pour la musique de n'importe quelle voix. Et ce seulement parce que
(par rapport `a l'accord ordinaire) la basse frappe l'oreille de
fac,on
plus claire, sonore et nette. Pourtant pour cet accord il est
absolument necessaire de composer de morceaux speciaux."
>
> Voici la traduction du passage de Besard proposee par Dimitri
Goldobine...
>
> Re-best, ;-)
>
> Jean-Marie
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>
> >I think Besard explains the Nova Testudo in his preface - can
someone
> >help with the text? As I remember it is top two courses down an
octave,
> >like the theorbo.
> >
> >M
> >On 21/05/2014 18:10, Thomas Walker wrote:
> >> Hello all--
> >> Do any of you have a view(s) on what instrument Besard wanted
for
his
> >> Nova Testudo? The other lutes seem pretty clearly to be 9 or 10
course
> >> instruments a 4th apart. The top lute, to me, looks like he's
assuming
> >> reentrant tuning. I'm tempted to think of Castaldi's tiorbino,
but
> >> that seems less likely outside of Italy that early in the 17th
c.
> >> Thoughts?
> >> Thanks kindly,
> >> Thomas Walker, Jr.
> >>
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References
1. mailto:mar...@luteshop.co.uk
2. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
3. mailto:jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr
4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
