Thanks Lex
Maybe, but plucking to perform basso continuo on the guitar was not
unknown if that's what Agazzi really meant (and I'm not convinced we
can interpret his description as excluding BC using full chords only -
eg strummed). Indeed, there are even some, allbeit later, sources
(Matteis, Murcia) which give detailed instructions on playing guitar BC
employing only the plucking (lute) style. Corbetta in his intabulated
vocal/instrumental settings is also fairly restrained: using plucking
play with the occasional strummed chord.
Martyn
--- On Mon, 12/12/11, eisen...@planet.nl <eisen...@planet.nl> wrote:
From: eisen...@planet.nl <eisen...@planet.nl>
Subject: RE: Return to earlier question: {was Re: [VIHUELA] Re:
Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}
To: "Martyn Hodgson" <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk>, "Vihuelalist"
<vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Monday, 12 December, 2011, 9:55
Hi,
I'm not so sure about the 'etc.'
It seems that Agazzari was thinking in terms of counterpoint, the way
the guitar was used (strumming) does not fit in easily. In the end,
there were more composers who were criticizing the use of the guitar
(Castaldi), at that time. I suppose that the plucked chitarrina could
be one of the melodic instruments on his list.
Lex
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Van: Martyn Hodgson [mailto:hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk]
Verzonden: ma 12-12-2011 10:24
Aan: Vihuelalist; eisen...@planet.nl
Onderwerp: Return to earlier question: {was Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Agazzari
guitar [was Re: Capona?]}
Thanks Lex.
Yes, these sources are fairly well known - I'm just not sure
terminoligy was sufficiently standardised at the time to draw
unequivocal conclusions and the question as to whether Agazzari
had Millioni's four-course guitar, 'chitarrino' in mind or the
instrument required in the Conserto vaga is open.
But to return to the original question: did Agrazzi purposefully omit
the chitarra spagnuola from his list of instruments as suitable for
basso continuo, or is it included in the etcetera...? I suggested that
since he does not list the instrument amongst those suitable for
embellishment then he did think it suitable for continuo (if rarer than
the instruments he did singled out). However, I'm certainly not
advocating even more banging and thrashing about as fashionable amongst
some modern continuo groupings......
regards
Martyn
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