Dear Arto:
Thank you very much for that quote translated into English.
Best,
RA
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> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:14:50 +0300
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> From: [email protected]
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Castaldi
>
> Dear Mathias and the List,
>
> in that book there are songs with continuo bass. So no instrumental
music
> or tabulature. Of course there is the most proper continuo
instrument.
> Bellerofonte is holding that in the picture, of course.
> And the music is good!
>
> BTW this is the just the book with the famous reasoning against
> countertenors/castrati:
>
> "And because [the pieces] handle either the love or the anger the
lover
> feels to the loved one, [the music] is represented in the tenor clef,
where
> the intervals are proper, and natural to be told[!] by a male; it
appears
> to the author to be a thing to be laughed at, when a man, with a
voice of
> woman, expresses his reasons, and asks for pity in 'falsetto',
to/from his
> loved one."
>
> Years ago I wrote a small "article" on that preface, see
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Castaldi.html
>
> All the best,
>
> Arto
>
> On 03 Sep 2010 11:11 GMT, ""Mathias Roesel""
<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > S.P.E.S. offer two publications by Belloferonte Castaldi. Besides
the
> > well-known Capricci a due stromenti (Modena 1622), there is
another:
> >
> > B. Castaldi, Primo mazzetto di fiori musicalmente colti dal
giardino
> > Bellerofonteo, Venezia 1623
> >
> > Does someone know if the second also contains music for the
theorbo?
>
>
>
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