Does anyone have a copy of Bartolotti's continuo treatise - Table pour
apprendre a toucher le theorbe sur la basse continuo (1669). I haven't been
able to trace one online.
Someone queried with me this recent suggestion that the exercises are not
intended for a theorbo with a double re-entrant tuning. He gave me two
specific examples ...
Page 6-7 shows him playing the the dessus going up the neck and shifting to
the 5th fret position, which would be very unnecessary having a no-reentrant
tuning.
Page 52 shows Bartolotti changing the voice leading down an octave, and than
re-striking the dissonance and resolution in the new lower octave, which
only makes sense on a double-reentrant instrument.
I suspect Bartolotti is just inconsistent but I wonder if anyone else has
played through all the exercises and could comment.
Monica
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