Oops.  Please pardon my reading-the-list-and-replying-in-sequence-oversight 
redundancy.

Eugene


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
howard posner
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 2:35 PM
To: lute list
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vivaldi

Hi Arthur:

Might you you be confusing the concerto in G, RV 532 with the "Noah's Ark" (for 
lots of pairs of instruments) concerto in C, R 558?

On Oct 13, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Arthur Ness <[email protected]> wrote:

> But notice the original instrumentation includes 2 "Salmo" 
> (=chalumeaux),
> 2 theorbos and the violins are designated "violini in tromba marina."  
> (See the red stripe.)  The comment that the Malipiero score is 
> "urtext" is misuse of the term!
> 
> I have never discovered convincing explanation about what "violini in 
> tromba marina" are.  I know what a tromba marina is, but violini?  The 
> best explanation is that one plays the notes in harmonics. In the solo 
> sections??? Any other explanation?  I don't buy the explanation by 
> <????> that they are to be played on board a ship.<g>


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