What exactly is a 'vihuela de Flandes'? It only plays Josquin?
Rob
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From: Lex Eisenhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 May 2005 07:56
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vihuela Net
Subject: Re: Vihuela stringing
As far as I know, the evidence for unison stringing is
It is supposed to be a lute.
L.
What exactly is a 'vihuela de Flandes'? It only plays Josquin?
Rob
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As I understand it the laud and vihuela de Flandes are different names for
the same thing. He is calling the laud a vihuela de Flandes because it was
played by Flemish musicians of whom there were many at the Spanish Court.
But I may be wrong...
Monica
- Original Message -
From: Lex
Mine also has a string length of about 61cms. It is strung with Kurschner
gut as follows
1st courseD 2046
2nd course D 2056
3rd courseD 2066
4th courseD 2050
D 2100 (bourdon)
5th courseCurrently Sofracob 0
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From: Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:54 AM
Subject: S. de Murcia
At 01:12 PM 5/12/2005, Monica Hall wrote:
How about - Santiago de Murcia never went to Mexico (there is actually
no
evidence
It may be a good subject for a Milos Forman movie: 'Santiago'
So it goes. His biography is pure fiction!
And Salieri didn't murder Mozart either...
Monica
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There would be many possible movies about lute-players and their
adventures.
What was about Rizzo who was said to have a close relationship to Mary?
Dowland as predesessor of James Bond? The life of the english Gaultier as
adventure? Are there some vihuelanista-stories to add? With a tiny bit
Starring Penelope Cruz as Maria Luisa and Nicholas Cage as Santiago of
course. In my version they fall in love (Luis I and Ferdinand VI were
really Santiago's children). When Maria Luisa dies of consumption a la
Mimi in Boheme (actually she did!) Santiago went off to Mexico.
I haven't written
But wait!
You forgot the happy ending.
He's rescued by a passing Spanish treasure fleet and transported back to Spain.
As soon as his invention is presented at court as a vihuela de mano, the
Inquisition has him (and it) burned alive for nincompoopery.
Simultaneously, on the desert island, a
Oh dear!
I seem to have sent everyone running out of the list again.
But think of it this way: A dark ending leaves room for a sequel.
Back on topic(?):
When the Spanish colonized the new world, did they pack light? Would they have
carried any musical instruments, or were they so militaristic
I'm not sure spaniards of the 16th century considered music as luxury. They
must have had a different approach to what luxury is and what is necessary.
The question could be: *if* one took a musical instrument with him would it
be a vihuela? As far as I understand the vihuela would be rather
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