At 12:45 PM 4/8/2008, Monica Hall wrote: >Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: 4c music... is there any?! >>Check out this little page from Appalachian State University (Dr. Douglas >>James' program): >><http://www.library.appstate.edu/music/lute/gtrlst.html> > >Which is a bit inaccurate. The music in Barberiis is not for a 7-course >guitar, but for a 4-course instrument (7 strings - 3 courses doubled, the >1st single). It is probably not for guitar either - but that's another story.
"7-course"!? That must be a typo. >Amat's book was first printed in 1596 and is for 5-course guitar. It >doesn't include any music apart from a few musical examples.. The Appalachian State University page isn't specifically for sources of 4-course guitar music, but sources of guitar music printed in the 16th c. Not 4-course, but the first appearance of Amat's book certainly is appropriate to that condition, even if the date they give it is also subject to typographic error. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
