On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:00:22 -0000, Monica Hall wrote > 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.
I don't think that treaties is online - not everything is ;-) But it's published in the wounderfull "Méthodes & Traités - Basse Continue" series, volume 1 by edition Fuseau which any self-respecting library should hold. > 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. Why? If you play continuo you need at least two notes above the base, so you need to stay on the third string. This is the same playing the archlute. Actually, on a reentrant theorbo I'd stay on the forth string even for basetti basses to keep the possibility to play a third above the bass (or, in rare cases, to play he bass on the first string and the third on the third string). > 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 need to check this with my copy. Cheers, Ralf Mattes To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
