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Jacobs added an optional bassoon, lute and kettledrums as well.
This and subsequent alternations in texture between solo lute and the full ensemble are indicated in the lute part by markings of 'solo' and 'tutti'.
Strung in fifty-pound nylon filament, each ground harp has twenty-two strings, individually tuned like a lute in courses to encourage sympathetic vibration.
Scheibe's use of the adjective 'einstimmig' (single-voiced) here is idiosyncratic, as concertos for unaccompanied keyboard, violin or lute are not monophonic.
Having started life as a lute duo, their music-making reflects a keenness for clarity and intimacy, and now in an expanded ensemble form pays particular attention to the continuo line.
Many of these pieces, and others like them, were regularly published as songs for voice and lute in the early seventeenth century.
In these hybrid structures the lute begins with a lengthy unaccompanied solo, after which the treble instrument and cello repeat the opening material.
As for the lute, its versatility as a contrapuntal instrument allowed it to accompany both improvised song and solo madrigals.
