Andrew Hartig says this about the citara atiorbata - Pietro Paulo Melii’s Intavolatura di liuto attiorbato, Libro Quarto (1616) contains a balletto for nine instruments including a citara tiorbata. This has at least 9 courses, seven of which were fretted and tuned G d f b g d’ e’. Citara part is labeled “Cordatura del Signor Paolo Virgo” implying that there were other tunings. Melii makes a point of labelling the citara part as "Cordatura del Signor Paolo Virgo which indicates that Paolo Virchi's tunings were well known and other tunings were also possible.
See Hartig, Andrew – The wire connection. In L.S.A. Quarterly, Vol XLV, no. 2, Summer 2010. Monica ----Original Message---- From: hodgsonmar...@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: 01/02/2018 11:34 To: "Lutelist Net"<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>, "al...@musickshandmade.com" <al...@musickshandmade.com> Subj: [LUTE] Re: [Citara tiorbata] Dear Alain, Perhaps Virgo is actually (Paolo) Virchi (1551 - 1610)? His father(?) was Giraolamo Virchi (or de Virchi) a maker of citterns Martyn ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- From: Alain Veylit <[1]al...@musickshandmade.com> Date: 28 January 2018 at 19:01 Subject: [LUTE] Re: [Citara tiorbata] To: Lute List <[2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Hi all, I revised a transcription I made some time ago of P.P. Melli's Balletto del Ardito Gracioso (1616), a suite for 9 instruments, including 3 (arch)lutes and a citara tiorbata "cordatura del Signor Virgo). I am still struggling with the tuning of that instrument which was apparently more a cittern than a guitar. The Signor Virgo is nowhere to be found on the Net, otherwise I would ask him about his tuning I guess, but given his elusiveness I am wondering if one of you may be able to provide more information than I was able to gather already. See: [3]http://fandango.musickshandmad e. com/collections/preview/185. The instrumentation of that suite is definitely exotic : why would the double-strung harp (alpa doppia) play the same notes as the viola (da gamba presumably)? Happy Sunday, Alain To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~w bc/lute-admin/index.html Virus-free. [5]www.avast.com -- References Visible links 1. mailto:al...@musickshandmade.com 2. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 3. http://fandango.musickshandmade.com/collections/preview/185 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail Hidden links: 7. https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail 8. https://mail.yahoo.com/?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2
