Not sure if this message went to the Lutelist as well as the vihuela
list..........
I have what appears to be a study of this manuscript in Spanish which
someone - I think an Internet friend in Spain - sent me some time ago. I
have never got around to reading it but a quick look now suggests that it is
about the 5-course guitar - including setting out the chords according to
Amat's system. And why not? The vihuela deosn't have to be a vihuela.
I could if anyone wants to look at it try posting it on my ning
page.....................
I have spent a bit more time looking at it and it appears to be someone's
doctoral dissertation. The first part is about the vihuela and guitar in
general. The second is a transcript of the manuscript. It is definitely
about the 5-course guitar and some of it looks as if it might have been
adapted from Minguet y Irol....or from whatever Minguet adopted his book
from.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Taco Walstra" <wals...@science.uva.nl>
To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:32 AM
Subject: [LUTE] antiqua (guatemala) vihuela manuscript
Dear all,
A few weeks ago I happened to be in Antiqua in Quatemala. They have a
tiny museum containing old manuscrips and books which were printed in
16th and 17th century in quatemala. Among the books shown there were 4
books containing music and one manuscript where the description
mentioned that it was about vihuela tuning. 23 pages following were to
contain religious music. Of course it would have been nice if this
manuscript contains vihuela tablature, but the museum description didn't
mention this, although it looks like that the music was intended to be
played on vihuela. Unfortunately there was nobody available to provide
more information. I made 2 pictures of the pages and will put them on a
website this week. Anybody more info about this book?
Taco
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