On Oct 17, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Monica Hall <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is also the article by John Hill in Early Music, Vol. 11, no. 2, April 
> 1983, p. 194-208 which does mention the possible influence of the guitar on 
> the lute  -
> 
> "Realized continuo accompaniments from Florence c.1600".
> 
> I am not sure if it is available on line unless you have a subscription.

… or a pdf.  Here's the passage Monica is probably thinking of, from page 
202-203.  It refers to illustrations I'm not trying to include: 

The keyboard harmonizations are really no more
elaborate than those for archlute, except that the vocal
melody included in them contains some ornamentation,
as in 0 miei giorni fugaci. It is primarily only the
inclusion of the bass part and some variety of chord
voicing that distinguishes the archlute accompaniments
from the strummed, rasgueado guitar accompaniments
to monodies, which have recently been studied by
Robert Strizich.24 As with the guitar accompaniments,
these archlute realizations show very little concern
about giving the upper line a distinct melodic shape.
Indeed many of them are as disjunct as the two
versions of Udite, udite amanti given here. In general,
ease of fingering and fullness of sonority seem to have
weighed more than smoothness of line in the judgement
of these Florentine musicians. A simple, chordal
texture, free of the counterpoint that Vincenzo Galilei
maligned for obscuring the text and free of rhythmic
complication that might inhibit the singer'ssprezzatura
(rhythmic freedom), was their ideal.

Parallelisms
No modern editor would dare to write the parallel 5ths
and octaves that confront us in the first two bars of
Tamo mia vita or in 0 rnieigiomi fugaci, bar 6. Yet these
parallelisms are found frequently in nearly every one
of these Florentine realizations, whether for archlute
or keyboard. It is often overlooked that even Viadana.
the church musician. wrote, in 1602. 'The organ part is
never under any obligation to avoid two Sths or two
octave^'.'^ Guidotti. in his preface to Cavalieri's Rappresentazione
di anima et di cop0 (Rome. 1 600), says 'two
Sths are taken as occasion demands'. Caccini in his
preface to Euridice (Florence, I6OO), writes 'I have not
avoided the succession of two octaves or two 5th~'.
Vincenzo Galilei, in his Dialogo of 158 1 ,26 had advised
them all that two or more perfect consonances consecutively
are to be allowed when three or more parts
are sounding, advice upon which he elaborates in a
treatise of c1590 in this way: 'The law of modern
contrapuntists that prohibits the use of two octaves or
two 5ths is a law truly contrary to every natural law of
singing [solo song^].'^'
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