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
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 a
Dear collective wisdom.
I'm finding out about some of the size variants available in
theorboes. For example, I've been looking at one which is 79 cm
playing length on the fingerboard, and 159 cm on the diapasons. That
seems quite a long neck extension since, with 10 frets on the
fingerbo
