On Sep 1, 2014, at 8:44 AM, Edward C. Yong <edward.y...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Style and taste question - do you think an archlute or a baroque guitar would > be better for this? Impossible to answer that question in a vacuum. It depends on your particular instruments and ability (is your guitar much louder than your archlute? on which instrument are most fluent?), the ensemble you’re playing with (20 modern string players? one-to-a-part baroque instruments? are you the only continuo player, or is there a harpsichord, organ, harp and 14 theorbos?) shot in the dark possibility: I gather, from your lack of confidence in your ability to figure the part, that your continuo skills are not advanced. If you’re likely to freeze reading figures in the heat of combat, you might consider just marking chord names above the strong beats and important changes and using the guitar. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
