I think personally Leonardo played a lira da bracchio, - an instrument
that perhaps could have been not very different from a vihuela - if we
consider its opposite the lira d'arco, i.e. a bowed instrument. If I
recall correctly - 30 years after reading Vasari - Vasari praised
Leonardo on his talent for improvisation on the lira, which ties nicely
with the main type of music on the lute at the time, the ricercar. Also,
Leonardo's mind would have been open to exploring the "music of the
spheres", i.e. a "clean", mathematically connected art, as opposed to
Michelangelo's dirty business of chipping marble ...
The link below goes to a site where luthiers tried to reconstitute
Leonardo's "lira"
http://www.manetti.com/en/2017/05/02/international-lutherie-competition/
This is a link to terminological difficulties concerning the lira:
https://books.google.com/books?id=BjBllk5fVDMC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=lira+d%27arco&source=bl&ots=1ho7ScHigz&sig=ACfU3U2ABAbyXukvYGORaFW-kns3Wtk5_w&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwifk_3ryvrhAhWLrFQKHXH_BNcQ6AEwEHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=lira%20d'arco&f=false
ink On 5/1/19 5:38 AM, Andreas Schlegel wrote:
Dear Franco, Ron and others
Thanks a lot for all your contribution.
It seems that I was right in my opinion that Leonardo was probably a skilled
musician, but there is no evidence for him as a lute player. So in the
intervieside thw Prof. Roeck (or the newspaper) confused lute and lyre.
All the best
Andreas
Am 28.04.2019 um 16:40 schrieb info.francopa...@gmail.com:
Did you read Davide's page and all the bibliography there?
Greetings
Franco
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Il giorno 28 apr 2019, alle ore 15:46, Ron Andrico
<[1]praelu...@hotmail.com> ha scritto:
The sad fact is that there is only anecdotal evidence to support
Leonardo's musical ability, and we must always approach anecdotal
evidence with caution. People have always embellished the truth. We
have to be content with the understanding that any educated person in
Leonardo's age would have been trained in the science of music.
RA
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Leonardo da Vinci and the lute
Thanks to Davide Daolmi:
[1][6]https://www.examenapium.it/meri/leonardo/
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Il giorno 28 apr 2019, alle ore 13:15, Rainer
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On 28.04.2019 09:42, Andreas Schlegel wrote:
Dear collected wisdom
In an interview on Leonardo's 500-year memorial Prof. Bernd Roeck
(author of a biography) talked about the musical skills and says
that Leonardo was known as a good singer and lute player. Has
somebody informations and sources on that topic?
Thanks a lot!
Andreas
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2. [11]mailto:rads.bera_g...@t-online.de
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2. mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu
3. mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu
4. mailto:info.francopa...@gmail.com
5. mailto:info.francopa...@gmail.com
6. https://www.examenapium.it/meri/leonardo/
7. mailto:rads.bera_g...@t-online.de
8. https://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=vinci&l=l...@cs.dartmouth.ed
9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
10. https://www.examenapium.it/meri/leonardo/
11. mailto:rads.bera_g...@t-online.de
12. https://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=vinci&l=lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
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