<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Citat Rainer aus dem Spring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Though others think the lute was first devis'd\\ > > In imitation of aa tortoise-baack,\\ > > Whose sinews, parched by Apollo's beams,\\ > > Echo'd about the concave of the shell:\\ > > And seeing the shortest and smallest gave shrill'st sound,\\ > > They found out frets, whose sweet diversity\\ > > (Well-touched by the skillful learned fingers)\\ > > Raiseth so strange a multitude of chords.\\ > > Which their opinion many do confirm,\\ > > Because Testudo signifies a lute.\\
> > I don't know the origin of this (Ovidius?) > According to Baron (p. 22 in the Eng. ed.) it is Virgil. > Also mentioned in preface to Drusina's 2cond ed. The myth of parched sinews can already be found in texts of ancient near east. They have it a little different, it goes like this: Yubal found his son slain. In his grief, he put the corpse on the the branches of a tree, according to burial-custom of his days. After a while, only bones and some parched sinews were left. When Yubal returned to the tree for mourning, he heard the wind making a noise on a sinew. He took it and tried it himself, that way always mournfully remembering his son. That's how he became ancestor of all string players. - The Bibel bears on that myth (Gen. 4:21). -- Best wishes, Mathias Mathias Roesel, Grosze Annenstrasze 5, 28199 Bremen, Deutschland/ Germany, T/F +49 - 421 - 165 49 97, Fax +49 1805 060 334 480 67, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Gesucht: Das Beste für die Stadt" Ökumenischer Stadtkirchentag vom 19. bis 26. September 2004 in Bremen ! http://www.stadtkirchentag-bremen.de
