The Grove chitarrone info is outdated.
It is a large CHITARRA ITALIANA.
See Renato Meucci's article apropos.
RT
On 10/16/2012 9:11 PM, Bruno Correia wrote:
The Grove Dictionaire says about the chitarrone:
"The type of lute denoted by this humanist, classicizing term
(chitarrone means, literally, a large kithara) was associated
particularly with Jacopo Peri, Giulio Caccini and the other early
writers of monody from the 1590s until about 1630."
Has anybody challenged this etymology? Wouldn't be safe to say it
simply derived from the chitarra (guitar)? Is was developed in the
first place to acompany, playing chordally from a contino line, just as
the 5 course guitar would do, though without the struming technique.
The solo repertoire that came later looks very close to the guitar
writing: chords a little counterpoint, arpeggios, slurs, campanellas
efect e so on...
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Bruno Correia
Pesquisador autonomo da pratica e interpretac,ao
historicamente informada no alaude e teorba.
Doutor em Praticas Interpretativas pela
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
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