Interesting possibility! We now have at least three possible explanations.
There is another interesting passage in the Ciaccona on p.49. The third
section on the second stave down.
In the preface Barto says
Nella ciaccona vi sono due partite de detta, che li colpi non sono attaccati
al
You spoil us ambassador(ess): I don't know why, but I get into an almost
Pavlovian response mode when you pose these questions and feel obliged to come
up with something.
Here I think it's about emphasis - a firmer/stronger, but controlled, strum
than with just the index. On the 2nd
Monica Hall wrote:
Following on from the discussion about Foscarini's notation before Christmas I
wonder what other people on this list would make of a passage in one of
Bartolooti's passacaglias - the one on p.17 of his Libro Primo.
On the bottom stave of the first page (17) there is a
