Dear Goran, You are perfectly right. I was speaking of the most common instruments; Juan Bermudo mentions a seven-course vihuela in his Declaracion de Instrumentos (1555), and the famous vihuelist Luis de Guzman is reputed to play on one as well. The 40032 manuscript definitely has pieces for a seven-course instrument - I am tempted to identify it as a vihuela as well; and the Declaraci�n de Verdaderos Retratos by Pacheco (second half of the sixteenth century, I can't recall offhand the precise date) mentions that the vihuelist Pedro de Madrid used an eight-course vihuela.
With best wishes, Antonio --- "G.R. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > > Fra: "Antonio Corona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > A rough definition of the vihuela could run in these > terms: a "guitar-shaped" (a polemic description, I'm > aware, but also a practical one) instrument used in > 15th- and 16th century Spain and areas of Spanish > influence, strung with 5 or 6 courses of strings, > played by plucking with the fingers (in the same > fashion as the lute) > > >I recall hearing of 7 course instruments as well. > The Barbarino (40032) ms. > >has many pieces for an allegedly 7 course vihuela > in the Spanish Naples > >dominion around the 1580s. > > G�ran > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Informaci�n de Estados Unidos y Am�rica Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Vis�tanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
