Is this the prototype of the instrument?
Similar to a Bass Lute (I think it was a Dieffopruchar model...)
with long body before long necks were built?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYZzu_nzI9M
Am 01.02.2018 um 20:09 schrieb Nancy Carlin:
Several years back there was an interview with Peter Forrester in the
LSA Quarterly that included a picture of that type of cittern, which I
believe is also called for in some Monteverdi. When I was studying
musicology back c1970 I took a class on Montederdi and the professor had
no idea what a theorbo really was and assumed that the theorboed cittern
was just a mis-spelled chitarrone. I think Peter Forrester said in that
article that he had built 2 of those theorboed citterns.
Nancy
Dear Alain,
Perhaps Virgo is actually (Paolo) Virchi (1551 - 1610)?
His father(?) was Giraolamo Virchi (or de Virchi) a maker of citterns
Martyn
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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
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