Indeed. Somehow a modern fallacy is in danger of becoming established:
ie that French theorbos were single strung (and with some other
particular features too). The historical evidence does not support this
modern identification/fad. No doubt some French played single strung
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:29, R. Mattes r...@mh-freiburg.de wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:26:19 +0200, Benjamin Narvey wrote
Both. Whike French theorboes tended to be single strung,
Taken from Robert Spencer's article:
He [Mersenne] added the correction that his engraving of
Hi,
Here is the list of new lute intabulations, or corrected and reworked
intabulations in Fronimo, with better layouts on IMSLP.
Attaingnant, Pierre Galliarde x
http://imslp.org/wiki/Galliard_%28Attaingnant,_Pierre%29
Lassus, Orlande de Adoramus te, ChristeSopran
The Gamut Music Kickstarter project for French Baroque lute duets seems to
have been quite successful. Is there an interest (other than my own) in
this format for Renaissance/Elizabethan lute duets, or even trios, minus
one???
Leonard Williams
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Yes Leonard, a thousand times yes: I for my part am definitely
interested as a mostly lonely lute player... And there might well be
some more out there in space. The partner, not to speak the patient
partner, you would like and need is not always there, and sometimes
never... and
Dear Leonard,
most of my lute intabulations which I did the past 20 years, have mp3 files too!
Because I always set up the channels in the duets one to the left and the other
one to the right channel, one needs only to turn the control to the left or
right channel,- and so you can very well
