Ron,
Not sure how much of an outlier we can really say Castaldi was.
Castaldi, Kapsperger, Pittoni, Melii... All those Italian seicento
theorbo dudes were highly (and, to me, delightfully) idiosyncratic. On
the face of it, Piccinini might at first seem to be the most
conservative, but this was the guy who describes playing gruppi with a
sweeping motion of the index finger while filling in other moving parts
with the thumb and other fingers - all with nails, of course. (Anyone
doing this on gut today?)
It's pretty hard to get an idea of what consituted "normal practice"
with this cast of characters whose work has survived.
Chris
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At Jun 16, 2015, 5:10:32 PM, Ron Andrico wrote:
Apart from Castaldi being something of an outlier, one doesn't like to
rely too much on illustrations, where you can find all sorts of
oddities.
RA
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 20:54:13 +0000
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[4]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
> From: [5]rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tiorba
>
> ..and Castaldi's illustration is phoney? r
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [6]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu
[mailto:[7]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
Behalf Of Ron Andrico
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 3:29 PM
> To: [8]mar...@luteshop.co.uk; [9]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tiorba
>
> Thank you for this, Martin.&nb= sp; The un-historical continuo
> instrument has become the norm with the ma= ny faux baroque
orchestras
> we see here in the US, as is true with many ot= her aspects of their
> music and performance style. ; It's tiresome to = the ears of the
> cognoscenti and rather undermines the efforts of those of u= s who
> attempt to emulate historical examples.
> RA
> >; = Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 20:47:20 +0200
> >; To: [10]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu >; From: [11]mar...@luteshop.co.uk
> >; Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tiorba ;
> >; What bothers me is that we now see the totally
> &= gt; single-strung (with wound basses, of course) liuto
> attiorbato as th= e
> >; standard modern continuo instrument in everything from Dowland= to
> >; Vivaldi. As far as I'm concerned, it's a modern "folk" in
strument.
> >; Nothing wrong with it except the claim that it is som= ehow
> "historical".
> >;
> >; M
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