Thanks for posting this, Martin! Ralph Maier certainly gives us something to contemplate.
Many of us play the vihuela, but very few, if any, play the dedillo stroke. I have dabbled a bit with it, but not made a serious study of it, and Maier makes a great case for making another attempt. He is obviously using bright synthetic strings, and if he used gut, I am certain that the tone emitted from the back side nail would be sweeter; it seems too harsh on synthetics, in my opinion. But, he wrote a great paper, and provides us with incentive to do better. That is one thing that in our modern times, we have almost ignored: dedillo. There is another thing we have ignored, which is the 7-course vihuela. Ward and Bermudo discuss this at length, and they make the case for there having been the"ordinary" vihuela in 6 courses, with our standard renaissance tuning; the other is the 7-course vihuela, in which entirely different tuning systems were employed. Ward provides us with many names of vihuelistas who performed 7-course vihuela, but other than Bermudo's examples, there is no existing music for those tunings. Bermudo states that all the great vihuelistas also played 7-course vihuela. In particular, Bermudo states this instrument was used primarily for doing intabulations. Yes, some modern players in our times do have 7-course vihuelas, but I have thus far found nobody in our times using the 7-course vihuela as an instrument which utilizes it's initial purpose, which is to use various tunings to devise intabulations. All the ones, to my knowledge, use it as having an extra bass course, similar to the lute. This was not the intent of such an instrument. We have come a long way in our understanding of the vihuela, but we have a long journey ahead of us...... ed At 02:50 PM 8/18/2011, Martin Shepherd wrote: > I can't resist passing this on - fascinating stuff. > M > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: [Le_luth] Dedillo > Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:08:41 +0200 > From: Sauvage Valery [1]<sauvag...@orange.fr> > Reply-To: [2]le_l...@yahoogroupes.fr > To: [3]<le_l...@yahoogroupes.fr> > > > Bonjour, > Un ami m'a fait part de cette page `a propos de technique de main > droite > concernant la vihuela, que certains pourraient trouver interessante... > [4]http://www.ralphmaier.com/index_files/Page318.htm > (en faisant defiler il y a quelques videos de demonstrations) > Bonne rentree `a tous... > Val. > __._,_.___ > [5]Repondre `a expediteur | [6]Repondre `a groupe | [7]Repondre en mode > Web | [8]Nouvelle discussion > [9]Toute la discussion (1) > Activites recentes: > > [10]Aller sur votre groupe > [11]Yahoo! Groupes > Passer A : [12]Texte seulement, [13]RA(c)sumA(c) du jour o > [14]Desinscription o [15]Conditions d'utilisation > . > > [stime=1313669394] > > __,_._,___ > > -- > >References > > 1. mailto:sauvag...@orange.fr > 2. mailto:le_l...@yahoogroupes.fr > 3. mailto:le_l...@yahoogroupes.fr > 4. http://www.ralphmaier.com/index_files/Page318.htm > 5. mailto:sauvag...@orange.fr?subject=Re%A0%3A%20Dedillo > 6. mailto:le_l...@yahoogroupes.fr?subject=Re%A0%3A%20Dedillo > 7. > http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Le_luth/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJyb2Qwajd1BF9TAzk3NDkwNDY4BGdycElkAzE2MTg5MzE0BGdycHNwSWQDMjEyMzgwMTYxNARtc2dJZAMxMzM1MgRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNycGx5BHN0aW1lAzEzMTM2NjkzOTQ-?act=reply&messageNum=13352 > 8. > http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Le_luth/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmZTg1MWoyBF9TAzk3NDkwNDY4BGdycElkAzE2MTg5MzE0BGdycHNwSWQDMjEyMzgwMTYxNARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzEzMTM2NjkzOTQ- > 9. > http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Le_luth/message/13352;_ylc=X3oDMTM3aGJtZjBqBF9TAzk3NDkwNDY4BGdycElkAzE2MTg5MzE0BGdycHNwSWQDMjEyMzgwMTYxNARtc2dJZAMxMzM1MgRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzEzMTM2NjkzOTQEdHBjSWQDMTMzNTI- > 10. > http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Le_luth;_ylc=X3oDMTJmM2VoNG03BF9TAzk3NDkwNDY4BGdycElkAzE2MTg5MzE0BGdycHNwSWQDMjEyMzgwMTYxNARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzEzMTM2NjkzOTQ- > 11. > http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJlaWZmczVhBF9TAzk3NDkwNDY4BGdycElkAzE2MTg5MzE0BGdycHNwSWQDMjEyMzgwMTYxNARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTMxMzY2OTM5NA-- > 12. > mailto:le_luth-traditio...@yahoogroupes.fr?subject=Changer%20le%20format%20:%20Traditionnel > 13. > mailto:le_luth-dig...@yahoogroupes.fr?subject=Messages%20du%20groupe%20:+R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 > 14. mailto:le_luth-desabonnem...@yahoogroupes.fr?subject=D%E9sinscription > 15. http://fr.docs.yahoo.com/info/utos.html > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: e...@gamutstrings.com voice: (218) 728-1202 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1660298871&ref=name http://www.myspace.com/edslute http://magnatune.com/artists/edward_martin
