> If I remember well, beside of one Pignatelli MS (PL-Kj), I have never heard about this manuscript. Please, tell me more about it!
> the G.A. Doni MS > (IT-Perugia), an incredible P.F. Valentini theori and continuo MS (Roma), the > Gianoncelli print, Zamboni and dalla Casa (some sort of decadent instrument > called 'arcileuto francese'), there is not much more for an archlute. So > players nowadays are looking for a repertire, that's quite natural. But I > guess historical archlute players were not that badly looking for "d-m lute > music" in order to convert it to their tuning, but played whatever was > arround, songs, dances, Corelli hits or their own inventions, all mostly - > who knows - without the help of paper... yes, by heart... or "straight from > its music notation", if I can cite from Weiss. > > One of my students, following some historical sources and played one of the > Corelli Sonatas on the d-m lute, with a noticable pleasure and, I'd say, > success. Why this direction is not so willingly followed? I have played a sarabande from violin sonata by Corelli in a version for d-m lute. Its in Stefan Lundgren's tutor. I would very much like to hear your student's version! Are To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
