Fronimo is a

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lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...

archlute The archlute ( es, archilaúd, it, arciliuto, german: Erzlaute) is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficulties in the p ...

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and other plucked and bowed instruments.

History

The program was created by the

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lutenist A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can refe ...

and

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Francesco Tribioli. He named it in honour of Il Fronimo by

Vincenzo Galilei Vincenzo Galilei (born 3 April 1520, Santa Maria a Monte, Italy died 2 July 1591, Florence, Italy) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist. His children included the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and the lute virtuoso and ...

, one of the foremost music treatises of the 16th century. One of Galilei's sons,

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, was also (amongst other talents) an astronomer, the same as Tribioli. Version 2 of the program ceased to be updated from February 2005. Version 3 was much improved though it introduced a new native file archive type, .ft3.

Description

The program contains historical fonts for the most common tablatures for the lute and guitar. A fully functional demo version is available, and is restricted only so far as it is unable to save tablature files. To enable files to be saved a licence must be purchased from the author. Options are available for German, French, Italian and Spanish language interfaces. There is a large repository of native tablature for the lute held in Fronimo .ft3 format files which can also be utilised by other musical tablature software.

Reception

Specialist lute-tabulature software packages such as Fronimo are sometimes preferred by lutenists if they specialise in 17th century tablature, which can be more difficult to set up in packages such as

Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...

. The licence cost of Fronimo may be thought to be reasonable compared to Sibelius when the functionality of that package is not required.

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