He doesn't specifically recommend any particular method of stringing for his music.
However, he does include instructions for tuning the instrument which include a tuning check in octaves. One can assume from this that he expected at least some players to use octave stringing on both the 4th and 5th courses. A lot of his music is rather thin anyway especially the pieces in lute style, some of which are actually arrangements of lute music. This is probably due to problems that he had in getting it printed. What you see isn't entirely what you get; you could fill it out a bit perhaps. The method of stringing doesn't really make a lot of difference overall to the texture. Monica. ----- Original Message ----- From: Fossum, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 1:21 PM Subject: tuning for Foscarini > I have been reading through Foscarini's "Cinque Libri della Chitarra > Spagnola" with my guitar and the textures sound really thin at points. I > cannot read Italian, so I am not sure what tuning he is recommending > (bourdons, low A? etc). Any help would be appreciated. > > -Arthur =20 > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
