On 5 January 2011 21:43, David Tayler <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a trend in scholarship to redefine things. Sometimes this gives us . > Getting back to the lute world, as soon as the important article came out > about the archlute, theorbo and chitarrone, (and it was, and is, a great > article) it had an enormous unintended consequence. > It reduced the use of the term chitarrone, and also helped standardize > modern versions of old instruments, effectively eliminating variation (part > of this is due to other factors, such as the adaptation of guitar strings > and guitar technique). > > So let's say we have roughly, by my count, about twelve common types of > extended neck lutes. > Now we have basically two, the archlute and the theorbo. > > So did we gain anything by this? I think we, as performers, lose by this. Hear hear. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
