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theorbo|θiːˈɔːbəʊ|
Also 7 theorboe, 7–8 -orba; 7 theorb', 7–8 -orb, 8–9 -orbe.
[ad. F. téorbe, théorbe (17th c.), ad. It. tiorba ‘a kind of musicall instrument used among countrie people’ (Florio 1598), Sp. tiorba. The spelling with th appears first in Eng. (prob. after the theo- group); the ending -o for It. and Sp. -a occurs in other words: see -ado. Origin of the It. word unknown: some suggest that it was named after the inventor.]
A large kind of lute with a double neck and two sets of tuning-pegs, the lower holding the melody strings and the upper the bass strings; much in vogue in the 17th century. (Cf. archlute.)
1605Chapman All Fooles Plays 1873 I. 144 Cor. Take thy Theorbo for my sake a little. Val. By heauen, this moneth I toucht not a Theorbo. 1611Coryat Crudities 252 Two singular fellowes played together vpon Theorboes. 1652Benlowes Theoph. i. lv, There sweet Religion strings and tunes, and skrues The Souls Theorb', and doth infuse Grave Dorick Epods. 1690Shadwell Am. Bigot iv. i, I had provided this drum to sing to, which is better than a Theorb, or Harpsychord. 1697tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 258, I never saw any Virginals or Theorba's here. 1899E. Gosse J. Donne i. 28 A madrigal for the theorbo. 1906Blackw. Mag. Sept. 338/2 The whole household purchased Theorbes.
attrib. and Comb.1657J. Gamble (title) Ayres and Dialogues. To be Sung to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass-Viol. 1676T. Mace Musick's Monum. 236 A Stop..which my Work-man calls the Theorboe Stop. 1688Playford (title) Harmonia Sacra..: with a Thorow-bass for the Theorbo-Lute, Bass-Viol, Harpsichord, or Organ. 1880Shorthouse J. Inglesant xxii, He found a young man,..playing on a double-necked theorbolute.
Hence theˈorboed |-əʊd| ppl. a., converted into a theorbo; theˈorbist, a player on the theorbo.
1611Coryat Crudities 252 These two Theorbists concluded the night's musicke. 1889A. J. Hipkins in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 100/2 Early in the 17th century many large lutes had been altered to theorbos by substituting double necks for the original single ones... The theorbo engraved in Mersenne's ‘Harmonie Universelle’ (Paris, 1636) is really a theorboed lute. 1976Early Music Oct. 414/2 Quantz wrote that the theorbist should sit behind the second harpsichord, between two cellists. 1980Ibid. Jan. 50/1 A lutenist and theorbist are shown in the orchestra in two contemporary drawings of the performance of Teofane. |