HIMUS 635PI-636PI — Continuo Studies for Plucked Instruments

1 credit per semester
Fall and Spring
Charlie Weaver

Through one-on-one sessions, presentations, ensemble playing, and symposium discussions, this course explores basso continuo and ensemble music for members of the lute and guitar families from 1500 to 1800. Emphasis is placed on study of the lute’s vast repertoire, lute-building traditions, and the selection and use of historically appropriate accompaniment instruments, including Renaissance and Baroque lutes, archlute, theorbo, and Baroque and transitional guitars, as well as rare, more distant instruments such as mandolino, bandora and cittern, English guittar, and gallichone. Practical sessions with guests will demonstrate the possibilities, drawbacks, advantages, and specific idioms suited to a variety of instruments.