Monica,
--- Monica Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well - like baroque guitarists - perhaps
> theorbo-players were willing to
> tollerate the displaced notes in order to enjoy all
> the other benefits which
> re-entrant tunings conferred upon them!
>
I doubt it. Many of the benefits of re-entrant tuning
I mentioned in the last post were useful in making
proper voice leading more feasible without having to
go a lot of awkward technical trouble. Frequent
displaced octaves do not fall into the catagory of
"proper voice leading."
> You can't have your cake and eat it.....
>
Quite right. The theorbo with double re-entrant
tuning sacrificed its upper tonal range in exchange
for having more adjacent notes under the fingers. But
Pittoni and Melli seem to have wanted at least a taste
of that cake and so added the high octave to their
second course so as to "fake" having more notes.
Chris
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