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Italian Baroque Lute (Arciliuto) by Matteo Sellas, 17th century

Erzlaute , English archlute , French archiluth , Italian arciliuto , is the generic term for historical Western European lute instruments , the common feature of which is a second pegbox attached to the longitudinally extended neck . This second pegbox is used to hold lower-sounding drone strings that are not shortened when playing and that run next to the strings above the fingerboard.

The generic term did not emerge until the 18th century and thus much later than the corresponding instruments. The German term "Erzlaute" was introduced in 1732 by Johann Gottfried Walther as a translation from Italian arciliuto . It summarizes bass lutes with different stringing, mood and function: Baroque lutes such as Arciliuto , Liuto attiorbato or German baroque lute with gooseneck , but also chitarrone , theorbo or Angélique .

Arch-sounds came into fashion in Italy after Alessandro Piccinini had Christofano Heberle built such an instrument in Padua in 1594 and were popular in orchestras and for singing until the 18th century because of their deeper and fuller sound.

In addition to the string arrangement typical of arch lutes , the Ukrainian torban has a group of short treble strings that run across the top of the body. The shahrud is an oriental stringed instrument introduced at the beginning of the 10th century in Samarkand , Central Asia , which is only known from drawings according to which it is carefully classified as arch lute.

literature

  • Christian Ahrens (Ed.): Lute and Theorbo. Symposium as part of the 31st Days of Early Music in Herne. Department of Culture of the City of Herne, 2006, ISBN 3-9807008-7-9
  • Ekkard Schulze-Kurz: The lute and their moods in the first half of the 17th century . 1990, ISBN 3-927445-04-5 Google Books
  • Robert Spencer: Chitarrone, Theorbo and Archlute . In: Early Music, Vol. 4 No. 4 (October 1976), 408-422, available from David van Edwards

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Arch sounds  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A. Piccinini: Intavolatura di Liuto et di Chitarrone. Libro primo. Preface translated from the original Italian into German by Sigrun Richter and Alexis Fernández. In: Guitar Laute 3, 1981, Issue 1, pp. 21–30, and Issue 2, pp. 38–45; here: issue 2, p. 44 f.