Dear Roman and lutenists, on Friday 12 December 2003 17:07, Roman Turovsky wrote:
> From long necked pandoura type in 7-8th centuries' Catalan mss, to > Zurbaran. see > http://polyhymnion.org/torban/torban2.html > for the former. > BTW Zurbaran shows a lute with inordinately long neck. Should be on .. > >>> The vihuela is a guitar-shaped instrument tuned like the renaissance > >>> lute. It was played in Spain in the 16th century in preference to > >>> the lute (although by no means exclusively so). It has been > >>> suggested that the Spanish preferred the vihuela because of the > >>> lute's association with the Moors. > >> > >> This suggestion can be happily eliminated from future descriptions as > > there is iconography testifying to the contrary. > >> RT I just wonder, what a 7-8th century Catalan mss. has to do with the attitudes of the society of 16th century Spain? Arto
