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Four solo motets and one ensemble piece are included on this disc, accompanied by theorbo and cello.
In both the concertos and cantatas, the continuo consists of harpsichord, cello, and theorbo.
An ensemble of three recorders, harpsichord, bass viol and theorbo supported the trio of singers with sensitivity and aplomb.
Other instruments that were derived from the lute are the archlute, the theorbo and the chitarrone.
Defining the differences between the chitarrone, theorbo and archlute has always been difficult.
The dozen instrumentalists are busy with recorder, flute, viols, theorbo, harpsichord and organ.
The concert finished well with the viol and theorbo providing good support.
He uses the lute or deeper sounding theorbo in a continuo role on other tracks.
The archlute and the chitarrone or theorbo had, in addition to the strings on the fingerboard, open bass strings on an extended neck with a second pegbox.
Nigel North accompanies suitably on lute, theorbo or guitar.
Anyone who blew you away with their chops on cornetto, curtal or theorbo?
A young woman wearing a beautiful satin dress with an orange-red jacket stands to greet him while another woman sits at a table playing a theorbo, a musical instrument.
Typically, this would be a harpsichord player, a pipe organist or a luteist or theorbo player.
Conductor Julian Wachner, using much-reduced forces supplemented by a tall theorbo, fused everything together with buoyant propulsion.
The group, led by Merseyside-born violinist Adrian Chandler, comprised cellist Gareth Deats, harpsichordist Joseph McHardy and theorbo player Eligio Quinteiro.
Scored for theorbo, viola da gamba, bass recorder, percussion and voices, Michelangelo Drawing Blood unites musical forms of the Renaissance with 21st century technology.
A lutenist or theorbo player could lead by lifting the instrument neck up and down to indicate the tempo of a piece, or to lead a ritard during a cadence or ending.
I spied a harpsichord nestling in the pit and there was also a Theorbo.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was a kind of theorbo or bass-lute, but with one neck only, bent back at right angles to form the head.
The chitarrone was formerly called Roman theorbo, because it was principally used at Rome.
He is a blind man squalling out a ditty, and thrumming on a puppy in his lap instead of a theorbo.
The archlute, or bass-theorbo, is the largest sized kind of the theorbo, or lute with a double neck.
And every night the player of the theorbo left the wall, approached him, and spoke in a clear voice mingled with soft breathing.
I had a good dinner for them, as a venison pasty and some fowl, and after dinner we did play, he on the theorbo.
On a table with curved legs placed in the embrasure of the window lay a lute, a theorbo, and some pieces of unfinished tapestry.
Oboes cooed like turtle-doves, the flute cast a pastel spell, and the theorbo rasped tellingly in the well-paced recitatives.
Underlying fine continuo from harpsichord and bass viol was admirable although one wonders why a theorbo was included, apart from the spectacular look of the instrument.
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