Well, Oliver Strunk writes "chitarrino". As far as I know, chitarrino, 4
course "renaissance guitar", was not at all unknown in Italy in times of
Agazzari... But I have never heard about "chitarrina", but of course that
does not exclude its existence... ;-)
best regards,
Arto
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:28:58 +0000 (GMT), Martyn Hodgson
<hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks Lex
>
> Well, I don't have a facsimile of Agazzari to hand so took the
> (translated) text from this recommended ('excellent') translation (see
> below) which gives 'chitarrino' . Does Agazzari write 'chitarrina' in
> the original source? And what is a 'chitarrina' rather than, say, a
> 'chitarra' if not a smaller instrument?
>
> regards
>
> Martyn
>
>
> .......................an excellent [sic] version of Agazzari's
article
> by [1]Bernhard Lang in the Werner Icking Music Archive! All the text
is
> in Italian, English and German!
>
> "... I must first ... classify them [instruments] ... into instruments
> like a foundation and instruments like ornaments. Like foundation are
> those which guide and support the whole body of of the voices and
> instruments of the consort; such are the the organ, harpsichord, etc.,
> and similarly when there are few voices, the lute, theorbo, harp, etc.
> Like ornaments are those which, in playful and conrapuntal fashion,
> make the harmony more agreeable and sonorous, namely the lute,
theorbo,
> harp, lirone, cithern, spinet, chitarrino, violin, pandora, and the
> like."
>
> --- On Sun, 11/12/11, Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl> wrote:
>
> From: Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl>
> Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Capona?
> To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>, "Martyn Hodgson"
> <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Sunday, 11 December, 2011, 10:03
>
> >
> > I suppose it could be said that the guitar would be covered by
his
> > etc...
> >
> > Also note he only mentions the 'chitarrino' (small 4 course
> > instrument?) in his list of embellishing instruments and omits
> > the larger (5 course) guitar. This, I suggest, implies that the
> guitar
> > does indeed fit with the other continuo realisation instruments
> covered
> > by the etc....
> Agazzari says: 'chitarrina', not 'chitarrino'.
> What is a chitarrina? Was it strummed, like the chitarra spagnola?
> Lex
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> References
>
> 1. http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/Agazzari.html
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