There is a passage in Campion's Traite d' accompangement (p.19) which reads
Elle (the guitar) a par dessus les autres la facilite du transport & du toucher, & par-dessus le Theorbe, les Parties d'accompagnement non renversees, par consequent plus chantantes. which I would translate The guitar is, compared to other instruments, easy to transport and easy to play, and unlike the theorbo, the accompanying parts are not reversed and are therefore more like the voice parts. I think that what Campion means by this is that the guitar doesn't have the first and second courses tuned down an octave like the theorbo, so that the accompanying parts will be in the right order on the instrument above the bass part instead of being in the wrong order as on the theorbo. But I wondered whether there anyone who is a native French speaker and/or plays the theorbo would agree with that interpretation? Monica -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
