Peter Martin écrit:
Evidence of guitar in the 1610 Vespers: no.
Evidence of guitar with voice in Italy at this time: certainly. James
Tyler in his book The Early Guitar gives a four-page listing (pp 96-99)
of Italian printed songbooks with alfabeto, starting with Kapsperger in
1610 and with many others crowding in shortly afterwards. On page 80
he cites Milanuzzi 1624 as including five Monteverdi arias.
On the face of it, then, absolutely fine to use the guitar.
But - as implied in Monica's latest - *all* those books are of secular
music. Not sacred music. From which it would seem that the guitar was
kept firmly outside the church.
And, on the other hand, there are numerous sacred publications of the time
that specify the continuo instruments, and the guitar is NEVER mentioned.
A. Grandi's first book of motets (1610), for instance: "Accommodati per
cantarsi nellOrgano, Clauicembalo, / Chitarrone, ò altro simile
Stromento." Of course, the guitar could be considered among the latter. But
the fact remains that none of these sacred publications mention it. Whereas
it is specifically mentioned in some of Grandi's secular pieces.
Dennis
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