>> From long necked pandoura type in 7-8th centuries' Catalan mss, to >> Zurbaran. see >> http://polyhymnion.org/torban/torban2.html >> for the former. >> BTW Zurbaran shows a lute with inordinately long neck. Should be on > .. >>>>> The vihuela is a guitar-shaped instrument tuned like the renaissance >>>>> lute. It was played in Spain in the 16th century in preference to >>>>> the lute (although by no means exclusively so). It has been >>>>> suggested that the Spanish preferred the vihuela because of the >>>>> lute's association with the Moors. >>>> >>>> This suggestion can be happily eliminated from future descriptions as >>> there is iconography testifying to the contrary. >>>> RT > > I just wonder, what a 7-8th century Catalan mss. has to do with the > attitudes of the society of 16th century Spain? > Arto FYI: in the 7-8th arabs were a real threat. in the 16th they were a faded memory. RT
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