Re: Vihuela

[Roman Turovsky]

> It still remains to find a satisfactory explanation
> for the fact that no music was printed specificaly for
> the lute, as Ariel and Stewart pointed out, but I
> believe we can now rule out the argument about dislike
> for arab culture.
In fact ANY association of lute with arab culture is a 20th century
invention. Previously it was seen as Ancient Greek (i.e. Byzantine), which
makes a bit more sense.
RT
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