I wrote: > Tyler will tell > you that there was no soprano "liuto" in Italy,
meaning in the 18th century > and when Vivaldi > wanted mandolino he wrote "mandolino." And I believe Vivaldi's > "liuto" parts contain continuo parts in the tutti sections (Malipiero > left these parts out of his landmark Vivaldi edition), written in > bass clef, which would be silly for a mandolino. There's no reason > not to think that when Vivaldi wrote "liuto" he meant "archlute," > which is what Zamboni meant by "leuto" in 1750 I meant 1718, of course. > and what Gianoncelli > meant when he titled his 1650 archlute collection "Il Liuto." -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
