Ah-- I figured it was something like that. Perhaps the 11 course was new to K and that's why it only shows up once in the book. Sterling
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 10, 2014, at 6:55 PM, Bruno Correia <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, there was an 11 course in that tuning (theorbated - neck with > small extension), check Mersenne there is a drawing of the instrument, > also check Lynda Sayce's article on Grove under archlute. I think he > had an 11 course just like Mersenne's drawing. He might have used the > more traditional 13 or 14 course on his later books for lute, > unfortunately they are still lost... > > 2014-02-10 22:16 GMT-02:00 sterling price <[1][email protected]>: > > I was playing through the 1611 Kapsperge book and I came across > the > Corrente 7. Toward the end of the piece there is an 11 marked in > the > bass for the eleventh course B flat. This I think is the only > instance > of an eleventh course in the book. I was under the impression > that > Kapsperger wrote for the 10 course lute, and there was perhaps no > such > thing and an 11 course lute in that tuning at the time. Could he > have > been implying an Archlute? What is going on here? > Sterling > -- > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > Bruno Figueiredo > > 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. > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
