So far no-one has told me where I can find the song in question.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lex Eisenhardt" <eisenha...@planet.nl>
To: "R. Mattes" <r...@mh-freiburg.de>
Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 7:51 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Caccini's instrument
But this isn't the problem at all! There's nothing wrong with
voice crossings per se, only if the voices involved form a fifth, which
would change into a (frowned upon) forth. I have yet to find one example
where this would happen with a theorbo ...
Cheers, Ralf Mattes
Crossings with the outer voices involved are often considered problematic.
There are probably very few examples of a figured bass, rising above the
other melodies. In this specific example of the Caccini song it is the
tuning of the bass courses of the theorbo in A which invites the idea of
playing some notes in a higher octave, above the tenor. It is strikingly
different from what he has notated in his own printed score, which may
represent what he has played himself.
Lex
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