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

[Monica Hall]

Well - as a librarian I can assure you that it is impossible to compile a 
bibliography or catalogue which is 100% accurate - or even 99%.  (I've 
tried). The point about Howard Brown's book is that it was first published 
in 1965 - over 40 years ago and is somewhat out of date.   It would help if 
people gave their source of reference.  I think that all the information in 
the Appalachian list is from Brown.

Actually Mudarra's 4-course music is the earliest surviving - printed in 
1547 whereas Barberiis was printed  in 1549.

The latest thinking on the 4-course music in Barberiis is that it is for a 
small 4-course lute.   The term Italian term "chitarra" is somewhat 
ambiguous in the 16th century.

Now I must away and watch the Lute Society taking part in University 
Challenge on TV over here!  Fingers crossed they get into the semi-finals!

Monica

(aka Doubting Thomas)


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


| At 12:45 PM 4/8/2008, Monica Hall wrote:
| >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.
|
| "7-course"!?  That must be a typo.
|
|
| >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..
|
| The Appalachian State University page isn't specifically for
sources of
| 4-course guitar music, but sources of guitar music printed in
the 16th
| c.  Not 4-course, but the first appearance of Amat's book
certainly is
| appropriate to that condition, even if the date they give it is
also
| subject to typographic error.
|
| Best,
| Eugene
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo|
It's especially important to check information when it seems
improbable.  Indeed the mistake is copied from Howard's
bibliography, and he doesn't usually make such mistakes.  I see
the guy in New Grove gets it correct, when he smooths over
Brown's error<g> by writing, "The last
book (1549) includes . . . four short pieces for seven-string
(four course) guitar. The latter pieces, euphemistically called
'fantasias', are notable for their popular character; one uses
the _bergamasca_ and another employs a drone bass."

If not for guitar, what instrument is intended? It is the
earliest printed source for guitar music, as far as I know.
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