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Viola da mano, detail from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi, was made before 1510. It depicts poet Giovanni Filoteo Achillini playing the instrument. The vihuela, as it was known in Spanish, was called the viola de mà in Catalan, viola da mano in Italian and viola de mão in Portuguese. The two names are functionally synonymous and ...
Blind from birth, he composed a Libro de música para vihuela intitulado Orphenica Lyra (Seville, 1554), dedicated to Philip II of Spain. At the arrival of Isabel de Valois , third wife of Philip II, she brought with her a group of French instrumental musicians who wished to stay in the Spanish court; Fuenllana alternated with this group and ...
Luis de Milán (also known as Lluís del Milà or Luys Milán) (c. 1500 – c. 1561) was a Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist, and writer on music.He was the first composer in history to publish music for the vihuela de mano, an instrument employed primarily in the Iberian peninsula and some of the Italian states during the 15th and 16th centuries, and he was also one of the first ...
1535-36 Luis de Milán (c.1500–after 1561) Libro de musica de vihuela de mano intitulado El Maestro; 1538 Luis de Narváez (1510–1555) Los seis libros del Delphin de música de cifra para tañer vihuela; 1546 Alonso Mudarra (c.1508–1580) Tres libros de música; 1547 Enríquez de Valderrábano (1500–1557) Libro de música
The Mexican vihuela is a small, deep-bodied rhythm guitar built along the same lines as the guitarrón. The Mexican vihuela is used by Mariachi groups. This instrument is strummed with all of the fingernail tips to produce a rich, full and clear sound of the chords being played.
mandolinos de concheros or mandolina conchera: with 4 double courses (8 strings), tuned as mandolin (g-d-a-e). [3] [4] vihuelas de concheros or vihuela conchera: with 5 double courses (10 strings). Tuned as vihuela, but in the 3rd, 4th and 5th courses, each string in a course tuned to an octave of the other string. [3] [4] [5]
“Las vihuelas en la época de Isabel la Católica” Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana 20 (July–December 2010): 7–36. “La producción de libros de cifra musical en España durante el siglo XVI” Hispanica Lyra 12 (2010): 10–27. “Hidalgo, merchant, poet, priest: the vihuela in the urban soundscape”. Early Music 37 (2009): 355–366.
Luys Milan: Libro de musica de vihuela de mano intitulado El maestro. Publikationen älterer Musik, ii (Leipzig, 1927) Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, 8 volumes, edited the first four (1956–58) Vol. 1: The Roman de Fauvel; The Works of Philippe de Vitry; French Cycles of the ordinarium missae; Vols. 2–3: Guillaume de Machaut: Works