[VIHUELA] Re: 4c music... is there any?!

[Monica Hall]

Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: 4c music... is there any?!


Check out this little page from Appalachian State University (Dr. Douglas
James' program):
<http://www.library.appstate.edu/music/lute/gtrlst.html>


Which is a bit inaccurate.  The music in Barberiis is not for a 7-course 
guitar, but for a 4-course instrument (7 strings - 3 courses doubled, the 
1st single).  It is probably not for guitar either - but that's another 
story.

Amat's book was first printed in 1596 and is for 5-course guitar.   It 
doesn't  include any music apart from a few musical examples..

Also, look into this text:

Tyler, J. & P. Sparks. 2002. The guitar and its music: from the 
renaissance
to the classical era. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

It sometimes catches a little scholarly flack for presenting some
speculation as fact without primary source support.

Unfortunately quite a lot of the information it includes is simply 
inaccurate.  But that's story of the early guitar.

Monica




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