Were these actually lutenists are rather theorbo players? - not the same.
MH
--- On Sat, 27/9/08, Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: The Learned Guitarist...
To: Michael Gillespie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Vihuelalist
Well - Foscarini says that he is a lutenist by profession and was employed
as one in Ancona and at the court in the Spanish Netherlands. Bartalotti is
mentioned as a theorbo player in the 1660s - but does
that exclude the possibility that he played the lute as well? De Visee's
music
---It seems that many modern transcriptions choose g as the pitch for
the
treble string. The reason for this is, in my opinion, for
standardization
reasons. It is an incorrect assumption to therefore conclude because
modern
transcriptions chose g, therefore all vihuelas were
Does anyone else find that harmonies, particularly those on the lower strings,
are muddy when played in a tuning respective to an e first string? I can't
quote specific pieces, but non-perfect intervals especially seem to sound
especially unclear. I don't seem to notice this problem when
