Thank you, Diego. I hope someone translates it into other languages as it looks very interesting. I can only understand a few words here and there, and it is very easy for me to misunderstand, so I will wait for some kind person to translate it into English. I'm constantly embarrassed about my inability to learn languages - I've tried on many occasions, but never get beyond saying 'I love you' and ordering a cappuccino!
You may have answered my next question... Looking again at Giulio Caccini's 1614 book, the lowest note is D below the bass clef. If we take the imaginative leap and accept for a moment that his bass lines might actually be what he played on his theorbo, he seems to have had a 10c theorbo, as with Kapsberger's first book, possibly a large bass lute in A with the first two courses down an octave. Did Banchieri utilize more than ten courses? Is it possible he had a large 10c bass lute in G with just the first course down an octave? I'm wondering how many of the early publications for a 'theorbo' (various spellings) or chitarrone were actually for large 10c bass lutes with re-entrant tunings? Rob www.rmguitar.info -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 January 2008 23:14 To: [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] banchieri and the Theorbo in G Banchieri in his "Conclusioni nel suono dell'organo" (Bologna 1609), p. 59, gives a G tuning for the chitarrone, with the reentrant tuning for the first string only. >From my homepage (under 'docs & tab') you can download a pdf copy of my dissertation about the chitarrone and the continuo in Italy. At p. 64 you can find the facsimile from Banchieri. Unfortunately my work it's in Italian only. It was written 12 years ago and I'm now working again on it, for a printed version. What you read is just a draft copy. Here's the link: www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf Diego To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
