...Good point Mathias, and don't forget our good old Frenchy Perrine and hi s "Livre de musique pour le lut. Contenant une m?tode nouvelle et facile pour ap rendre ? toucher le lut sur les notes de la musique (...) et une table pour apre ndre ? toucher le lut sur la basse continu? pour accompagner la voix...". Paris, 1679. An intersting method for one of the previously mentioned black sheep, the 11c. F rench lute ;-) and by the way one of the cheapest in Minkoff"s collection ;-))) !
Best, Jean-Marie ======= 24-10-2008 12:12:35 ======= > > Why the few maniacs only use baroque lute tuning for a > > continuo, in the age the instrument was born and used? > > Not sure if I got your point right, but didn't Benjamin Narvey recently > make a strong case in favour of HIP continuo playing in D minor tuning. > Besides that, there still are the Fundamenta der Lautenmusique, an 18th > century=A0tutor for continuo playing in D minor tuning. > > Mathias [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://adueliuti.free.fr 24-10-2008 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html