Amother self-serving platitude from MO, a positivist meretrix who has no imagination. Usually timelines of written wusic are A LOT shorter than timelines of each particular instruments' histories. RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vihuela list" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 6:24 AM Subject: [VIHUELA] rain ... >i realize there's no welcome mat at the door for him > here but - never being one to discredit an idea for > anything other than its merits - the following > contribution from matanya ophee to a "history of the > guitar" thread on another site may be the last word in > any debate about vihuelas, charangos, et al: > > guitar history properly begins with the appearance of > the first > written score for the instrument. Anything prior to > that may be an > interesting and amusing archeological speculation, but > it has nothing to do with music. > > so then ... it's back to scales. > > - bill > > > > > "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - > Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by > Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: > http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday > snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
