Ron Fernandez has a section of his site devoted to the modern Portuguese guitarra:
http://www.fernandezmusic.com/ He pointed me to the National Library of Lisbon�s website for 18th century music. Here�s Antonia da Silva Leite: http://purl.pt/165/index-HTML/M_index.html Nice picture on page 31 of the 18th century Portuguese instrument with watchkey tuning � still looking like and definitely tuned like a British guittar. The �Coleccao de alguns minuetes�� at the end has music. I�m sure I�ve seen this before but cited as anonymous. There are lots of short simple pieces, all with a simple segunda part. There are a number of ingleza pieces � including a Giga in 2/4 on page VIII? Apart from some high notes in the segunda part on page XIII this looks like pretty typical guittar music, I think. Here is �Seis Minuetes� by Vidigal for �Guitarra e Baxo�: http://purl.pt/433/ This, to me, is starting to look rather different from typical British guittar music. The fifth one is in F minor! If you hadn�t seen the title page, I wonder if you�d think that this was just keyboard music? Pedro Cabral has recorded some of this and some guittar music too? Anyone know anytrhing about it? I�ve listened to some short clips and they sound very interesting. While we�re at it, Ribeiro, Nova Arte de Viola,is here too (belongs to vihuela list rather than cittern list): http://purl.pt/168/index-HTML/M_index.html It�s interesting that the Portuguese have always insisted on calling their citterns, guittaras. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using mcAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
