On Feb 4, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Roland Hayes wrote: > I seem to remember an archlute piece (Doni ms.) that does not > use a chanterelle. To me this implies that the first course was > problematic at times at least (a la french 11 c. pieces w/o > chanterelle) > and may have been replaced with a string an octave lower for both > continuo and solo pieces.
There are other "senza canto" pieces; one is in Gianoncelli's book, I think. I'm more inclined to think they imply that first courses broke more often than others, so it was nice to have a something to play when it happened. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
