Related to this: are you aware if any lists of players at the 17thC/early 18thC
Italian Opera Houses listing theorbos, harpsichords players also showing
guitarists.?
Martyn
The theorbist can also play the guitar. Normally not at the same time...
True... but that doesn't prove that the guitar was part of the regular
continuo group!
In things like the Cavalieri the singer probably accompanied himself on
stage, rather than the guitar being part of the continuo group.
And as far as the exercises in the guitar books are concerned surely these
would have been intended for amateurs who wanted to do something a bit more
ambitious than just strumming. They are not intended for professional theorbo
players.
Another random stream of consciousness thought (I have them all the time) -
the 17th century wasn't a "throw away society" The alfabeto song books
printed in the first thirty or so years of the century would have been passed
from father to son, or mother to daughter, or......so on. so there was no
need to keep on reprinting them....in a word - or two - the bottom had dropped
out of the market.
MOnica
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