In a message dated 10/14/06 1:14:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The initial question (as I understood it) was: why was it developed ? > I doubt if the origin of the re-entrant tuning of the 4-course or 5-course > (??) guitar in the 16th century had anything to do with campanela playing. > There is no music left to show us. I hold to my speculations about the open > air and the ukelele (with due respect). > Hi Lex, There is music for a "vihuela a cino ordenes" with a guitar tuning configuration in Valderrabano's book, but, if I am not mistaken this music has no campanella passages. (I am away playing in a performance of Domenico Zipoli's sacred opera San Ignacio- 18th c. Paraguay...and can't reference his book.) In my response I was only referring to Howard's post, and my point was that this was a very different kind of re-entrant tuning, one that had little to due with string length and body size. RS -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
