On Jan 25, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Monica Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Meucci gives a whole series of references which support his contention that > in Italian sources the terms chitarra or chitarrino refer to a small lute > whatever they may refer to in any other language. Amongst the latest of > these are - > > Cerreto (1601) - Strumento della chitarra à sette corde, detto Bordelletto > alla Taliana (i.e. all'Italiana) > > Vocabolario della Crusca which in the first edition of 1612 defines Chitarra > as - A kind of lute, which lacks the bass and soprano. > > Pietro Millioni (Rome 1627) certain pieces are dedicated to the "chitarrino > overo ghitarra italiana". Maybe, I'm missing something: how do the first and third references support the contention that chitarra and chitarrino refer to lute and not guitar/proto-guitar? -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
