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One consequence was the phrase vihuela de mano being thereafter applied to the original plucked instrument. The term vihuela became "viola" in Italian ("viole" in Fr.; "viol" in Eng.), and the bowed vihuela de arco was to serve as a prototype in the hands of the Italian craftsmen for the " da gamba " family of fretted bowed string instruments ...
Vihuela de mano shared extreme similarities with the Renaissance guitar as it used hand movement at the sound hole or sound chamber of the instrument to create music. [ 158 ] By 1790 only six-course vihuela guitars (six unison-tuned pairs of strings) were being created and had become the main type and model of guitar used in Spain.
About 1500, many Iberian lutenists adopted vihuela de mano, a viol-shaped instrument tuned like the lute; both instruments continued in coexistence. This instrument also found its way to parts of Italy that were under Spanish domination (especially Sicily and the papal states under the Borgia pope Alexander VI who brought many Catalan musicians ...
“At Court and at Home with the vihuela de mano: Current Perspectives of the Instrument, its Music and Its World”. Journal of the Lute Society of America 22 (1989): 1–27. “La música renacentista para instrumentos solistas y el gusto musical español”. Nassarre: Revista Aragonesa de Musicología 4 (1988): 59–78.
Flatback bandurria is box lute. Roundback bandurria is bowl lute. bouzouki, Irish: Ireland 321.322 An Irish variant of the Greek bouzouki, with a flat rather than bowl-shaped back cuatro [1] Colombia and Venezuela: 321.322 Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body and with four strings cuatro [2] Puerto Rico: 321.322
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]
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
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 ...