On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:17:42 -0800 (PST), Chris Despopoulos wrote > I just found this -- a thesis by Natasha Frances Miles submitted > to the University of Birmingham. Time permitting, I intend to > give it a read. I can't imagine the guitar didn't enjoy certain burlesque > qualities from time to time, and I can't imagine the young > upstarts in court would have been able to resist... Calls for > order, sweetness, and dignity notwithstanding. This paper might > touch on that. The Baroque Guitar as an Accompaniment Instrument > for Song, Dance and Theatre > http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/1600/1/Miles11MPhil.pdf > cud
Gosh - just from the abstract: The five-course baroque guitar was regularly employed in the accompaniment of song and dance, and did so predominantly in the rasgueado style, a strummed practice unique to the instrument. Contemporary critics condemned rasgueado as crude and unrefined, and the guitar incited further scorn for its regular use in accompanying the ill-reputed dances of the lower classes. Happy reading, Ralf Mattes To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
