[VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
"il Chitarrino, overo Chitarra Italiana" which suggests that it was a small lute rather than a 4-course guitar. But then it would be a small lute tuned like a 4 course guitar in 'temple nuevo'. That's what it is. That is what Cerreto's instrument is and it has a re-entrant tuning.

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2011-12-12 Thread Monica Hall
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]} Very interesting, Monica. Is Meucci's article readily available anywhere? More to the point, is it in in English? And better still is there a good summary

[VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread Monica Hall
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]} "il Chitarrino, overo Chitarra Italiana" which suggests that it was a small lute rather than a 4-course guitar. But then it would be a small lute tuned like a 4 course guitar in 'temple nue

[VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
The first of these is that in Millioni's 1631 book the 4-course instrument is referred to as "il Chitarrino, overo Chitarra Italiana" which suggests that it was a small lute rather than a 4-course guitar. But then it would be a small lute tuned like a 4 course guitar in 'temple nuevo

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2011-12-12 Thread Stuart Walsh
On 12/12/2011 17:24, Monica Hall wrote: Having a quick look at Meucci's article again there are a few other things which I think need to be clarified. The first of these is that in Millioni's 1631 book the 4-course instrument is referred to as "il Chitarrino, overo Chit

[VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread Monica Hall
Having a quick look at Meucci's article again there are a few other things which I think need to be clarified. The first of these is that in Millioni's 1631 book the 4-course instrument is referred to as "il Chitarrino, overo Chitarra Italiana" which suggests that it was a

[VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread Monica Hall
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]} a small 4 course guitar (as described by Cerreto in his 1601 Neapolitan publication). The instrument described by Cerreto is not a guitar - at least according to Meucci. Cerreto actually descr

[VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread R. Mattes
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:49:05 + (GMT), Martyn Hodgson wrote > Indeed - this supplements what I wrote below - thank you. Sorry, but I'm utterly impressed by your fallacious reasoning :-/ Can we please stick to the sources? So, in 1589 they had to send for musicians from Naples to get guitar play

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2011-12-12 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Indeed - this supplements what I wrote below - thank you. Presumably after 1589 the guitar (5 course alla spagnola) became better known in the North. MH From: Eloy Cruz Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

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2011-12-12 Thread Eloy Cruz
Dear List I think the chitarra was unknown in Northern Italy, but not so much so in Naples. From Nina Treadwell's "The chitarra spagnola and Italian monody, 1589 to c. 1650": On March 18, 1589 three guitars arrived in Florence from the Spanish-ruled city of Naples, ordered by Emililo de' Cavalier

[VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Monica, I'm not sure we are at cross purposes since we all seem to agree that nothing is certain about what precise instrument Agazzari had in mind and whether he might have come accross the chitarra spagnuola (and implied it in his 'etcetera'). Of course Foscarini's publ

[VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread Monica Hall
We seem to have got a bit at cross purposes here - at least I have. Agazzari's book was printed in 1607 as far as I am aware. Only one year after Montesardo. Foscarini's book in mixed style was printed in about 1630 and the version of which includes the continuo instructions was printed in

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2011-12-12 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Thank you for this - you must have missed my qualifying rider: 'albeit later sources' expressing that I am well aware these sources are not contemporary with Agazzari. And of course you're quite right they do not constitute evidence of what Agazzari was aware. The point is that p

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2011-12-12 Thread R. Mattes
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:28:52 + (GMT), Martyn Hodgson wrote > Thanks Lex > >Maybe, but plucking to perform basso continuo on the guitar was > not unknown if that's what Agazzi really meant (and I'm not > convinced we can interpret his description as excluding BC using > full chords o

[VIHUELA] Re: Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Thanks Lex Maybe, but plucking to perform basso continuo on the guitar was not unknown if that's what Agazzi really meant (and I'm not convinced we can interpret his description as excluding BC using full chords only - eg strummed). Indeed, there are even some, allbeit later, sourc

[VIHUELA] Return to earlier question: {was Re: Agazzari guitar [was Re: Capona?]}

2011-12-12 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Thanks Lex. Yes, these sources are fairly well known - I'm just not sure terminoligy was sufficiently standardised at the time to draw unequivocal conclusions and the question as to whether Agazzari had Millioni's four-course guitar, 'chitarrino' in mind or the instrument requ