On Nov 1, 2009, at 2:01 PM, David Tayler wrote: > I came > across this quote from the book Venetian instrumental music from > Gabrieli to Vivaldi > by Eleanor Selfridge-Field dated 1607
Wow... you must have the first edition. Mine is the third, revised, 1994. > > There was a concert of the best musicians that they had [involving] > as many voices as instruments, principally six little jewels of > organs besides that of the church, which is very fine, and trombones > or sackbuts, and viols, violins, lutes, cornetts made from [animal] > horns, recorders and flageolets. > Six portative organs! Seven organs dispersed around the church would be just the right number for a work with seven choirs, such as Gabrieli's Magnificat a 33, or some similarly grand work by Francesco Usper or someone else who worked at the church of San Salvador, which is what the above report, by the French diplomat Jean-Baptiste du Val, is about. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
