Damien Delgrossi wrote: > Good evening everybody, > > Living In corsica and as a corsican guy i know the cetera but i am looking > for videos of different cittern, arch cittern of the world. Where can i watch > some cittern player, does anybody who play can send me a video, wich > repertoire can I find??? > Thanks for your help, > Have a nice day, > Best wishes, > > Damien. :-) > > I've put up just one page of a website on the French cistre of the the late 18th century. It's here (and the links don't works yet):
http://www.tuningsinthirds.com/cytre/ I've got lots more information but I am struggling to think of a more interesting way of presenting it! The French arch-cittern was known in it's time as simply a 'cistre ou guitarre allemande' (with different spellings for 'cistre' and guittare'). It is a seven-course instrument with extra basses. The music for cistres 'tuorbes' is usually playable on seven-course instruments: the lower notes are marked with octave signs, to be played on the low bass notes if the cistre has them. As well as the French repertoire, Lefevre wrote a tutor in English and published in Britain for the cistre - an arch-cittern - in 1790. It has some simple music and it didns't catch on. But there is lots of French music (some of it pinched form the English guitar repertoire). Damien, one of the French publications by DeMesse has this 'Avertissementt': "Le plus habile ouvrier qui ait existe A Paris pour faire les Cythres etoit feu M. Meling; Celui qui lui a succede pour le talent en ce genre d'Instrument est M. Laurent, Luthier, Passage de Saumon, Au Cythre Allemande." Stuart To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
