At 05:07 PM 11/1/2005, bill kilpatrick wrote: >--- Alexander Batov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Corrubias (1611) sums it up rather neatly as "the > > guitar is a vihuela, > > small in size and also of less strings, since it has > > no more than five and > > sometimes only four." > >there's quite a lot in your answer - but for now, >thanks heaps for the above.
This quote, of course, is a very late perception in the life of the 16th c. (and a little beyond) vihuela, and I'm pretty certain it's been cited here before, Bill. I believe there was a more clear distinction between the two concepts early on, before burgeoning guitar popularity began to swallow up the concept of vihuela. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
