Roger E. Blumberg wrote: > The bulk of this article seems to say only that Portugal was not > unlike the rest of Europe from Medieval through Baroque times, i.e. > that citoles come citterns were present. Did anyone doubt this?
No. I suppose Pedro Cabral - just like all of us - simply isn't used to talk about citterns without having to explain exactly what a cittern is first. ;-) Pedro Cabrals wrote: > The portuguese language diccionaries of Rafael Bluteau (1719) .. > refer the Cithara and the Guitarra as two different instruments, .. WHAT!!?! Doesn't that precede the first known appearance of the English guittar in *England*??? Is it possible we got it all wrong? Did the English guittar evolve from the Portuguese rather than the other way round? Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com http://www.tablatvre.com http://www.mandolin-player.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
