Hi Stuart,
I see. Thanks for posting the title pages; that's very informative and fascinating, too. Best, Jocelyn -- Jocelyn Nelson, DMA Teaching Assistant Professor Early Guitar, Music History 336 Fletcher Music Center School of Music East Carolina University 252.328.1255 office 252.328.6258 fax nels...@ecu.edu On 3/7/2011 5:27 PM, "Stuart Walsh" <[1]s.wa...@ntlworld.com> wrote: On 06/03/2011 23:21, Nelson, Jocelyn wrote: Hi Stuart, I enjoyed this (what I could; my internet's a little slow tonight); thanks for posting. Grove online has Rush as a "guitarist" and listed in the works section are several works for "gui" which I take to mean as an abbreviation for guitar. Also "Elegant Extracts for Guitar." Ronald R. Kidd wrote the article. Did they mistake the guittar for the guitar? (Pretty understandable, I would say). Perhaps Rush himself spelled it as "guitar"? Ages ago I put up some title pages of 'English guitar' publications: [2]http://www.tuningsinthirds.com/EG/ Rush used the spelling 'guittar' but others used 'guitar'. 'Cetra', 'citra', 'chitarra' (and others too , were also used). Today, people often use the spelling 'guittar' to refer to the pear-shaped, wire-strung, chordally-tuned 18th century cittern. It's useful today , but doesn't in any way represent general practice in the 18th century. Stuart I hadn't known of Rush before this. And thanks also for acquainting me with this meaning of "folly." : ) It's a beautiful scene. Best, Jocelyn -- References 1. mailto:s.wa...@ntlworld.com 2. http://www.tuningsinthirds.com/EG/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
