[LUTE] Re: theorbo in Spain?

[Manolo Laguillo]

In the DICCIONARIO DE INSTRUMENTOS MUSICALES, Barcelona 2001, under 
'tiorba', the author of it, Ramón Andrés, after mentioning an inventar 
of possesions of Felipe II, the king of Spain, where two theorbos 
figure, he tells that culteran poets employed it in its poems because it 
was considered an aristocratic instrument, 'emblem of a refined art'. He 
cites, among others, Luis De Góngora (1561-1627):

Un día pues
que los cisnes de espuma
tiorbas fueron de pluma
esto el aire oyó sereno

(The day when the surf swans where theorbos made of feathers the serene 
air heard this)

He also cites the count of Villamediana (1582-1622), Pedro Soto de Rojas 
(1584-1658), Gabriel Bocángel (1603-1658) and Antonio Solís (1610-1686).



Rob MacKillop wrote:

>What evidence is there for the theorbo being used in Spain?
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>Rob
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