Peter Forrester
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:16:45 -0700
Please excuse me if I have missed something, having only been thinking about citterns recently, but.. Rasguedo or, more properly? strummed music does seem to exist for the 4c guitar from England. See John M. Ward: Sprightly and Cheerful Musicke, Lute Society Journal 1979-81. The Osborn Commonplace-book, circa 1560, now in Yale University, has nineteen short and simple pieces mostly consisting of chords, with a gittern tuning. At this date they are likely to be for the little guitar, gut strung, rather than the wire-strung re-tuned treble cittern of the 17thc. There are very few pictures of the 4c guitar in England so that it is perhaps worth listing them here: 1568 marquetry on the "Eglantine' table in Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. 1568 portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, printed in the 'Bishop's Bible'. c.1590 mural painting in Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. 1604 twice in Stephen Harrison, print of 'The Archs of Triumph'. Any more? Peter To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html