Dear List: I have been following this string on the Vihuela/Guitar and have become puzzled. Does anyone really know for sure what a Vihuela is. It seems to me that one man's Vihuela is another's ________(insert preference here). >From what I have been reading it seems that all we really have to go on is one academic's opinion as opposed to another academic's opinion, not pointing fingers at anyone in case someone thinks that I am. There seems to be no real clear choice or definition. Am I wrong in assuming that there is no real "Genuine Vihuela" still in existence? I keep hearing this credible source sighted and quoted and that credible source sighted and quoted, both disagree with each other. When it comes down to arguments about the number of courses it seems the argument is desperate and perhaps rhetorical, understanding there is no correct answer attainable with the information we now have.
VW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Antonio Corona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 5:07 PM Subject: Re: vihuela vs guitar > > >>> Not a bad idea altogether. Batov renames his > >>> instrument a five-course viguela/vihuela/biguela > >> (and > >>> there are further variations on the spelling), and > >>> makes it as a five course instrument and we can > >> all > >>> get on with our lives; Roman as well. > >> Not quite. BIGUELA UNIVERSAL as opposed to > >> ORDINARIA. Any number of courses > >> he sees fit, as he is a practitioner rather than a > >> methodologist. > >> RT > > > Go ahead, be practical and create your own categories, > > as long as you donīt pretend they are based on > > historical fact there is no objection. > > AC > Why? Mainstream scholars of history do it all the time, with relative > impunity. > RT > > ______________ > Roman M. Turovsky > http://polyhymnion.org/swv > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
