Some of the sources thought previously to have been for 4-course guitar
are
actually for the mandora - amongst them the pieces for a 4-course
instrument
in Barberiis' Opera intitulata contino of 1549, and in Conserto vago di
balletti printed in 1645 which includes music for lute, theorbo and
@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: An 1816 vihuela
In particular I think it possible that the instrument Bermudo calls a
guitarra, which he implies is a different instrument from the vihuela,
may
actually have been a mandora, mandola (or vandola
