Monica, I salute you for this enlightened statement.  Attempting to
   make sense of something from the remote past based on misunderstanding
   scant and flimsy evidence reminds me of the premise of the (historical)
   novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz.  If one want to examine the extent of
   the harmonic resources of the renaissance guitar, try transcribing
   music from Ukelele Ike.
   RA
   >
   > As for as the idiosyncrasies which we find in the music - I am afraid
   these
   > just go with the territory. A 4-course instrument is quite limited
   and the
   > music just has to be arranged in a way that it can be played. You
   just have
   > to get used to it. Things were very different in the 16th century.
   >
   > Regards
   > Monica

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