I haven't paid attention to it for a long time, but as I recall Italian citterns seem to have had 6 double courses on a fairly regular basis (as distinct from the Northern variant, usually with 4 double/triple courses), with some indications of a 14-course instrument (Praetorius, I think?) and Robert Hadaway had made at least a few "ceterone" reproductions. Again if memory serves, there's at least one fully tabulated piece for the instrument, Can't call up the name of the composer or publisher from the old synapses right now, though.
Then there are the mid-17th Dutch 6-course instruments, as depicted by Vermeer et al. I'm not sure if there's any extant music for them. >>> "Monica Hall" <[email protected]> 12/19/2009 11:54 AM >>> Why not? We tend to overlook this lovely instrument - but surely there were a lot of them around - and with more than 4 courses if I remember aright. Monica ----- Original Message ----- From: "lute" <[email protected]> To: "'Monica Hall'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Cc: "'Lutelist'" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 4:51 PM Subject: AW: [LUTE] Re: another day at the office Or maybe a cittern? Mark -----Urspruengliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Monica Hall Gesendet: Samstag, 19. Dezember 2009 12:43 An: [email protected] Cc: Lutelist Betreff: [LUTE] Re: another day at the office That is interesting becuase if it just says "chitarra" it may not refer to the 5-course guitar but rather to the 4-course mandora or possibly even the chitarrone. But that is perhaps another story. Monica ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:02 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: another day at the office >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[email protected]> > >> What you think about the "Cantabo Domino" by Paolo Quagliati, (printed in >> Fabio Costantini, Scelta di mottetti [...] libro secondo, Roma, Robletti >> 1618) where we have 2 pentagrams for the "chitarra"? > > > I made a mistake: there's just a continuo part in bass clef for the > "chitarra". No letters. > The organ part is printed on two pentagrams (lines): the bass part and the > highest voice of the vocal ensembe. > It's the only exemple I know, at least for sacred music. > > Diego > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 4699 (20091218) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > [1]http://www.eset.com > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.eset.com/ 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute
