I'm working on it!
Martyn
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From: Braig, Eugene brai...@osu.edu
To: lute list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2014, 17:21
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vivaldi solo lute
.And I also tend to agree with
Vivaldi clearly specified mandolino for the small lute relative
common to his time and place when he intended it. If he'd intended
that octave in RV 540, I suspect he would have specified mandolino
there as well. He simply did not.
RV 540 is a special case. It was written
We've discussed these before as well, but for the benefit of Konstantin
et alia . . .
Here is a pair of beautiful pieces by Giuseppe Presbler clearly built
as a matched set and housed by the US's Metropolitan Museum of art:
Yes indeed Eugene,
This is one of the very instruments I had in mind when earlier
referring to extant Italian instruments newly made in the 18th century.
As you suggest, the identification of it as a 'mandola' has no real
basis: it is a leuto (or liuto) and I have suggested it is
Furthermore, there does seem to be some precedence for mandola simply being
used to describe the six-course mandolino when that low g was a relatively new
feature.
For example, Dalla Casa's (1759) archlute book includes a Scala per Mandolino
for interpreting tablature; open courses are given
Hideki is a good guy. He used a six-course mandolino played punteado to
recorded all the mandolino and mandola works (plus two extra works for good
measure) compiled in Dalla Casa's book (1759). John Schneiderman provided the
accompaniment on archlute.
Eugene
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