Dear David and all, I object to clause 4, :). Without having been present at Linda Sayce's lecture I understand from what was posted about that lecture that she commented on the role the mandora played during the time the late baroque lute (i.e. the 13 to 14 course instrument in d-Minor tuning) fell into decline and the early romantic guitar "rose". The mandora can be seen as an intermediary or - say - a stepping stone in a process which did not feature the decline of one instrument and the rise of another but which forms a continuum where instruments are gradually transformed to fit changing environments. Although the differences between a baroque lute, a six string guitar and a six string lute (the instrument which later became what is called a "Wandervogellaute" today but was introduced about hundred years before the Wandervogel movement formed) are quite marked, they seem to belong to the same line of development and thus there may have never ocurred a decline of the lute at all - just that the darn thing with too many strings fell more and more out of use, simpler forms were developed or came to the fore and the guitar took in its evolvement something over from the role the lute had played. (Sorry if my command of the language should be too weak to communicate what I mean. I will fall silent now and travel to France for the weekend.) I like No 5 (RT, I think) - it introduces a factor most often completely overseen ... All best, Joachim "David Rastall" <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Okay, here's what we have so far in a nutshell to account for the > demise of the lute: > > The lute died: > > 1. Because it wasn't able to maintain its primary function as an > accompaniment instrument due to the decline of continuo > 2. Because it wasn't loud enough to fill a concert hall > 3. Because it was too hard to play, and was consequently ignored > during the great dumbing-down which followed the decline of the > patronage system > 4. Because of something Linda Sayce said about the mandora > 5. Because it was not able to move beyond the single-affect system > characteristic of the Baroque period > 6. Because it not able to handle the wider tonal palette required by > the new music > 7. Because it became unfashionable > > Any other ideas? > > David R > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.rastallmusic.com > > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- Dr. Joachim Lüdtke Frühlingsstraße 9a D - 93164 Laaber Tel. +49-+9498 / 905 188
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