Was there not a baroque Mass composed in Mexico City? That might indicate a level of musicality in Old Mexico that would attract a lute.
Regards, Leonard Williams On 6/19/13 8:09 PM, "Eloy Cruz" <eloyc...@gmail.com> wrote: >Dear Brad, List > >If Mexico is part of North America, yes. In the sacristy of the Mex-City >cathedral, in churches of towns like Nurio and Cocucho in the State of >Michoacan, in the town of Tlacochahuaya (? I'm not sure this is the town's >name) and in several poems. I think there's even mention of a tiorba, in >poetry, but I don't have it with me. > > >Grettings > >eloy > > >El 6/19/13 10:53 PM, "Bruno Fournier" <br...@estavel.org> escribió: > >> Hi Brad, >> >> A >> >> Robert Derome from University of Quebec has done quiteA a bit of >> research on the lute in New France ( Quebec) in the 17th century.A >>you >> might want to contact him.A I don't know if he's on this list. >> >> A >> >> Here is the webiste on Lute in New France: >> >> A >> >> sorry its in French. >> >> A >> >> [1]http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14310/Luth/Frontispice.html >> >> A >> >> I believe that the Sieur De Maisonneuve played lute.A Also the Sieur >> Duluth, who was a french soldier and explorer, is accounted to have >> played lute, hence his surname.A His name would have been given to >> Duluth Minnesota... maybe Ed Martin can comment on that.. >> >> A >> >> [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greysolon,_Sieur_du_Lhut >> >> A >> >> A >> >> Bruno >> >> from Montreal >> >> A >> >> A >> >> 2013/6/19 Brad Walton <[3]gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca> >> >> Hello lute folks! >> Does anyone know of any records -- references in literature, >> letters, diaries, whatever, or depictions in paintings or prints -- >> of lutes being played in North America during the 17th and/or 18th >> centuries? >> Thanks, >> Brad >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> -- >> >> A >> >> Bruno Cognyl-Fournier >> >> A >> >> [5]www.estavel.org >> >> A >> >> -- >> >> References >> >> 1. http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14310/Luth/Frontispice.html >> 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greysolon,_Sieur_du_Lhut >> 3. mailto:gtung.wal...@utoronto.ca >> 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> 5. http://www.estavel.org/ >> > > > >
