<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, they were played together with an organ, it's in the title, so > there must have been in a church...
I don't think "organo" necessarily meant organ as such. It often appears to be used in the sense of "keyboard" or even "continuo;" e.g. in Vivaldi's published concertos you'll often see "organo" on the bottom line. I don't think this meant organ or nothing in La Primavera. And there were organs in places other than churches. Organs were used for continuo in 17th-century opera. The published score of Monteverdi's Orfeo specifically lists harpsichords, chitarroni, "Un Regale" and "Duoi Organi di legno." To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
