I last played the broken consorts a long, long time ago with a recorder
and don't remember any problems with the octave shifts. I do remember
some concern about whether the lute was loud enough.
More recently I have enjoyed the CD by L'Poem Harmoniqe Love Is
Strange, which includes b
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008, Doc Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> 2. NRI current historical notes on cittern strings extract In 1602
>> "Meuler was able to produce an even stronger wire, which allowed the
>> small cittern to tune up to g"
note that the so-called mueller wire is argued, clear that
Hi Martyn,
Thanks. I had forgotten about the small Praetorius cittern. I was
thinking of the Playford gittern/guitar tuning and wondering why
people would use that, but now that you've reminded me of Praetorius,
it's all clear.
What I understood is that people are using a gittern tuning
A few sources that come to mind include:
1. LS Booklet by Gill (1977)page 7:
Praetorius small english cittern string stop c. 35cm tuned
f" bflat' d" g" or f" a' d" g" Also same tuning for 'gittern' an octave lower
as below: evidence of 'gittern' in Payford's 1652 publication as suggesting
mid/
On Oct 5, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
More recently the gittern tuning (with highest string on the first
course at g') seems to have found favour
Which tuning is this?
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Help needed from the collective wisdom.
>From a private ms. I am to play music by Italian composer Carlo
Liguri. Looks like 17th century music to me: vocal with continuo bass.
No figures. The aria is called 'Arda Roma . The Grove does not come up
with anwers to Liguri, but there is an aria 'Arda R
My wife and I just played some renaissance flutes and recorders and
they were close to 440, maybe a bit lower, whatever the keynote was.
The instruments came in many sizes, so what was a D flute or a C
flute or a small bass flute is an interesting question.
All of the instruments sounded differe
If I remember right, we played the extant Morley works and reconstructions of a
few Rosseter and Holmes Ms pieces.
I thought I had explained the size of flute! I said we tried a bass transverse
flute (John Cousen after rennaisance models) playing at written pitch and that
it was pretty inaudib
