doc rossi wrote:
> I actually played several ren. guitar pieces on cittern when I used to > play ren cittern regularly. Some of it sat pretty well, especially one > of Morlaye's settings of Conde Clare. The "Stammbuch Elias Walther" (c. 1660) gives the cittern tuning as (bottom-to-top) d'-g-b-e' (see http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/zist_thuering.htm ). This is of course the same intervals as a re-entrant tuned four course guitar. May that tuning have been used even earlier to play guitar music on a cittern? I don't know of any sources to support that assumptions, but it might be worth looking into. Come to think of it, the evidence of a "guitar tuned" cittern contemporary with Rembrandt might add a new aspect to Rob's Dutch cittern repertoire question too, although it has to be admitted it's a long way from Th�ringen to Holland. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com http://www.tablatvre.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
