Long time reader, first time poster, with a 4th-course octave on my 7-course
this week:I think that the Pesaro ms. (possibly Segovia; definitely one of the
two) requires a 7th course. Being late 15th-century music, I'd imagine that
would imply a 4th-course octave on a 7-course. Also, regarding the
Italian/English octave/no octave notion, in the practical observations of the
Varietie of Lute lessons, Dowland laments the fact that English lutenists have
been so slow to adopt the continental fashion of stringing unisons, prefering
instead octave stringing, which he finds terribly objectionable.Best,John Lenti
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