Sorry! I answered to wrong message and wrong group! ;-)
Arto
On 01/12/11 12:59, [email protected] wrote:
Don't know about lute songs, but early among early continuo song
singers there definitely were "falsetto" folks. Bellerofonte Castaldi
wrote in his preface in 1623:
"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."
For more of the preface, see my old page:
[1]http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Castaldi.html
Arto
On 01/12/11 12:43, William Samson wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering if anybody has done a survey of string spacing on extant
lutes? The few examples I have seen show considerable variation - for
example the 7-c Venere with 59 cm string length shows exceptionally
close spacing (if memory serves it's arond 35mm across the first six
courses) but most seem to be about 45mm to 50mm across the first six
courses. Has a comprehensive survey been done?
Bill
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