Dear lutenists and "hang around gang",
I have stringed and tuned my archlute (Stephen Barber, 1987) to a
"Théorbe de pieces" in d (a'=392). This kind of high theorbo really
feels the right thing to the French "middle baroque" - the times of
Louis XIV.
I've just made only a few recordings by that "axe", but I guess this
is the way to go, when playing de Visee and his contemporaries - I
assume they really had this kind of sound in their mind then...
My (modest) performances up till now are:
* Anonymous French pieces in manuscript Res-1106:
o Vaudeville (ms. Res-1106, fol 64v)
o Plainte d'Atis (Lully?) (ms. Res-1106, fol. 9r)
* Robert de Visee: Pieces in A_mi_la_mineur (ms. Saizenay)
o Prelude (Saizenay, p. 256)
o Allemande La Royalle (Saizenay, p. 253)
o Chaconne (Saizenay, p. 258)
You'll find links to the tubes, and also the music, in page
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Tiorba/deVisee/
And there will be more of this stuff... ;-)
All the best,
Arto
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