Good question! ;)
On 17/01/2015 10:08, Robert Barto wrote:
Dear Martin,
OK. Great. When were they converted?
Thanks, Robert
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Martin Shepherd [1]<[email protected]> wrote:
I think it's likely that Dowland was referring only to the 6th
course,
courses 4 and 5 having been already "converted" to unisons by that
time. He says specifically, "In that place which we call the sixth
string" - when he could easily have said something like "all the
basses". I suspect even when he had his 6th course in unison, he had
the 7th-9th courses still in octaves (hard to imagine a unison 9th
course in gut).
Martin
On 17/01/2015 01:13, Robert Barto wrote:
> Thank you all for this so far.
> I just checked out Barley (1596) which is apparently a revision of
the
> previous English translation of le Roys instructions. It clearly
calls
> for octaves on 4, 5 and 6. So this tuning seems to have been
propagated
> in the tutors in late 16th century England. (Matthew Spring in his
> "Lute in Britain" suggests that this might not have reflected
practice
> at this time (1596) as in 1603 Thomas Robinson already calls for
> unisons.)
> I reread the Dowland comments in the Varietie as well. It sounds
to me
> as if he is at least saying that he prefers unisons, and that
octaves
> were being used more in England at than elsewhere. I cannot
imagine
> that he is only talking about the 6th course. Perhaps the style
had
> already been changing on the continent.
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