[LUTE] Theorbo question

2009-01-05 Thread Guy Smith
Although I'm primarily interested in Ren music, I haven't been able to resist the temptation to dabble in continuo a bit (we have a continuo group in Seattle, loosely modeled on Pat's Continuo collective). I'm afraid that I might have finally taken complete leave of my senses, as I

[LUTE] Theorbo Question

2008-01-28 Thread David Rastall
If the solo theorbo, being by definition an instrument of shorter playing length, is known to have been tuned with only the first course in re-entrant tuning, presumably there was some amount of solo repertoire for that tuning. Where can it be found? The only solo repertoire I know of is