Anthony: Looking at the Minuet provided as a sample page raises some questions about the notation.
The use of square brackets (rather than curly braces) at the beginning of each system implies that these are two separate instruments; thus the top staff is for the lute, and the bottom one is for the B.c. (That is to say this is not a grand-staff presentation of the lute part alone, and the continuo is on a separate page.) The question then becomes, what is the tuning of the lute? Conventional wisdom is that "the Italians never adopted the d-minor tuning." So, if we assume an ffeff tuned instrument in G, the notated pitch is quite stratospheric, mostly above the 5th fret and hitting the 13th fret at one point. If we assume that the notation follows the modern guitar convention, sounding an octave lower than written (in spite of the absence of an 8 below the treble clef), then the music is quite easy, falling within the range of a 6-course lute or mandora. However, that puts many of the bass notes of the lute below the B.c. part, which seems a bit strange. Any additional information available? Regards, Daniel Heiman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Hart Sent: 12 April, 2014 06:03 To: lute Subject: [LUTE] Lute sonatas of Antonino Reggio The lute sonatas of Antonino Reggio have now been published. Please visit [1]www.edizionear.com/lute.html Anthony Hart -- References 1. http://www.edizionear.com/lute.html To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
