chitarrone

His instrument of choice was the chitarrone, and according to contemporaries had a sweet voice.

The composer sang the principal part himself and the accompaniment was played on a chitarrone.

Its bass variety was known as Chitarrone.

Kapsberger is best remembered as a composer for lute and chitarrone.

Unusually for the time, he often indicated the instruments which were best to use as accompaniment, including chitarrone, theorbo, and harpsichord.

Instrumental colour is provided by a chitarrone, a pipe-organ, two violins, two cornetts and a double-harp.

Libro secundo d'intavolatura di chitarrone (1616)

Mr. O'Dette accompanied Ms. Hargis on the chitarrone, a lute with an extended bass range.

E. Pohlmann: Laute, Theorbe, Chitarrone; Bremen, 1968 (1982)

The most prominent players and composers of the chitarrone in Italy were Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger and Alessandro Piccinini.

Besides the still surviving Kuitra of Algiers and Morocco, its descendants include the Chitarra Italiana, Chitarrone and Colascione.

And indeed, Mr. Hilse not only gave the voices their starting pitches, but also accompanied two numbers, in place of chitarrone and organ; the effect was not so much anachronistic as surreal.

After studying the lute there, Nauwach came home and published a book of Arie passeggiate, solo madrigals for 'Chitarrone et altri simili Instr.'

Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarrone (1640): 12 toccatas, 16 preludes, 10 passacaglias, 5 chaconnes, and numerous other pieces, including dances, variations, canzonas, etc.

In the preface to one of his books of motets, Barbarino wrote that he would sing his works to the accompaniment of the chitarrone, "for my voice is hoarse and frail."

Although theorbo and chitarrone are virtually identical, they have different etymological origins, chitarrone being a descendant of chitarra italiana (hence its name).

(We learn from the preface that the orchestra included a chitarrone, a lira grande, a liuto grosso, and a gravicembalo on which the player was Jacopo Corsi.)

Two items,Oncques amor and Petite fleur, are first given in alternative setting played by chitarrone and harp, providing both comparisons and well placed variety of tone and texture.

Within this general ordering, specific instruments or combinations are used to accompany some of the main characters-Orpheus by harp and organ, shepherds by harpsichord and chitarrone, the Underworld gods by trombones and regal.

In 1600, in the first two of his five madrigal books, Rossi published the earliest continuo madrigals, an innovation which partially defined the beginning of the Baroque era in music; these particular compositions included tablature for chitarrone.

He has collaborated with countertenor René Jacobs and gambist Wieland Kuijken, and has also played theorbo, such as a 13-course chitarrone and a 14 course liuto attiorbato, among others.

The Ceterone was an enlarged and bass-extended cittern, the counterpart of the chitarrone as a development of the lute, which may have dated from the 1520s, but no firm evidence exists for it before the end of that century.

The 1623 collection is of particular importance because of Piccinini's lengthy preface, which includes a detailed manual on performance, as well as claims to have invented the archlute (Piccinini also made important modifications to the chitarrone).

Using the list as a basis, the two directors Chiara Banchini and Jesper Christensen have fielded an orchestra of 16 violins, five violas, six cellos, five basses, four archlutes, a chitarrone, harpsichord and organ.

Among the pieces on display are a chitarrone (an enormous lute used as a Baroque continuo instrument) from about 1725, an ornate Baroque guitar from about 1690 and a collection of 17th-century violas da gamba and violas d'amore.