----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vihuela list" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:03 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Icon alert -- vihuela in newly-recovered Valencia Cathedral fresco
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "vihuela list" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 7:37 PM > Subject: [VIHUELA] Icon alert -- vihuela in newly-recovered Valencia > Cathedral fresco > > > > > Stunning as well (to me) is the resemblance of this instrument to the > > _bowed_ vihuela/viola pictured in S.Virdungs 1511 treatise plate. They > are > > virtually the exact same instrument, and this new plucked image pre-dates > > Virdungs by 30-35 years! > > > this juxtaposition from the bone-yard is too good to pass up, so have a look > > http://www.thecipher.com/Valencia_c.1476_Virdung_1511_juxta-deta.jpg > and today's booty ties in nicely too. I don't have firm ID on this picture yet. I'm guessing it's a German woodcut, early-mid 1500's, but the instrument shown is referencing and even earlier period-pattern-design (turn of the century). Virdung was also German or low countries. Very nice and informative leaf-shaped peg-box here too (6 string). The upper bouts have those tell-tale contours as well. This thing screams waist-cut vihuela (d'arco). http://www.thecipher.com/viola-vihuela_de_arco_Mvsica_early-mid16th-deta.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/f79ue Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
