A practical musician wiil use a practical tuning.
In the sense that a certain lute will sound right for certain
repertoire when tuned to a certain pitch with the appropriate strings.
When playing in an ensemble with other tuneable instruments one has
to come to an an agreement on which pitch to use.
When playing with fixed pitch instruments one will have to either
cancel the gigg, or transpose or play another size of lute.
All this is very much in accordance with "ye oulde practice"
LvS
Op 20 jul 2009, om 20:14 heeft David Tayler het volgende geschreven:
Terms like "alto lute" or "alto viol" are periodically floated and
usually do not gain traction, however, this is simply a modern
terminology phenomenon.
Alto recorder did very well; on the other hand, male alto--now
replaced by the more resplendent sounding "countertenor"--has pretty
much disappeared.
Several professional archlute players changed the name of their
instruments from "archlute" to "theorbo" when the theorbo became more
in demand from the hiring point of view--they didn't change
instruments, just names.
At one point, when it looked like "arciliuto" might gain traction,
several changed to "arciliuto", then back again to "archlute" and
"theorbo". You can see the trail reflected in CD liner notes.
I sort of liked "arciliuto" myself--more historical and with that
international flair. Does not rhyme with "hirsute" as well.
And of course Shakespeare's famous line "a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet" was originally "a rose by any other word",
which avoids the careless repetition of the "word name":
What's in a name? That which we call a Rose
By any other Word would smell as sweet.
dt
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