There is some interesting performance practice advice in the 1756
treatise on continuo playing. Daube says that it is best for
keyboardists not to arpeggiate; they shouldn't ordinarily roll chords
"as is done on the lute." He also says that harpsichordists should lift
their fing
Re works by J F Daube, as well as the lute works, there is at least one
piece by him which includes mandora: a sonata for violin and mandora
from his 'Musical Dilettante: A Treatise on Composition (Vienna, 1773
)'. This work was aimed at amateurs and especially aristocratic
dilett
