Luys de Narvaez

Luys de Narvaez (fl.1526-1549).
Los seys libros del Delphín de música.
Hopkinson Smith, vihuela de mano.

[@ghislain526]

Ces compositions musicales sont, non seulement, agréables à mes oreilles, mais aussi, aux oreilles des chats stressés, anxieux, sensibles et émotifs : un miracle !!! J'ai testé sur les miens !!!

[@jorgejnoguera3510]

Because of ill health I have been unable to play any of my beautiful guitars, vihuela and lute. That will change, soon. I will not allow their voices to remain silent. It will hurt but I will play again, this I swear.

[@josemiguelrestrepovelasque9144]

Esta música nos conecta con la majestad del Espíritu y esa tranquila paz que de él se desprende. Esa es la verdadera música: la que nos hace trascender, así sea temporalmente.

[@rosaline953]

Qué hermoso y certero comentario

[@elidenis8291]

Excelente musica de aquella epoca y sin olvidar a otros grandes como Luis Milan y Gaspar Sanz.....

[@gilbertomartindelcampocast7945]

Es una vihuela de mano, asi se llamaba en el siglo XVI. Una decena de magnificos compositores escribieron muy bellas paginas para este instrumento, recién desprendido de la ciltura arabe y de la edad media. Evoluciono y se llamo despues guitarra española que dio luz a la que hoy conocemos.

[@rfdarsie]

The coming together of great composition, great instruments, and great musician never fails to amaze and move me.

[@TalentedDilittante]

Took me back to sanity and civilization. Thank you. Your music endows us with peace and good health. We wish you the same.

[@WilliamFord972]

The Renaissance was quite a barbaric time.

[@MinhajArifin]

Well said

[@thomasszejnmann3917]

@@WilliamFord972 I cannot see any time when mankind was not barbaric, including our time. The difference between old and modern times is that in old times people were more capable to make a difference between war and art. Today most times war is also present in art. Maybe just because we pretend not to be barbaric.

[@MrDrewlips]

@YamFestival As far as colonialism is concerned, "civilization" is dependant on barbarism.

[@bingxilao9086]

@@MrDrewlips I'm proud of my colonialist ancestors, both of the things they built and the conquests they achieved over the barbarian. Equality is a truly sick moral paradigm. It is success and strength that should be admired, not harmlessness and niceness.

[@jean-francoismasson3361]

Quelle beauté cette musique Espagnole de cette époque et si bien jouée par Hopkinson,sur un instrument divin et bien enregistrée!!!! bravo !!

[@bmukherjee2516]

So much sensitivity can only be expressed by a master of the instrument. When fused with the medieval soul of the compositions when life was truly purer, this is a balm for the mess we've created.

[@albertodalpino3372]

you mean the Renaissance, not the Medieval... Medieval times ended officially in 1453 with the fall of Constantinople. Just saying...

[@anasuyamukherjee9693]

Absolutely. I stand corrected. Loved the "just saying" bit....

[@sethfleishman5346]

@@albertodalpino3372 The medieval spirit did not turn off with the flip of a switch. Much of the art of the Renaissance contains the vestigial spirit of the Middle Ages. It wasn't completely obliterated until the so-called "Enlightenment." -s

[@albertodalpino3372]

@@sethfleishman5346 That's true too

[@ALEJANDROARANDARICKERT]

life in the 16 th was truly purer ? are you kidding me? life was always a mess , now and then

[@underground_man]

I remember learning de Narvaez's "Guárdame las Vacas" (17:10) in music school. It was one of my favorite pieces to play. It filled me with anemoia or sehnsucht for fields of cattle and country scenes I had never known. I had something like a vision of myself as a young farmhand on a rare break, leaning against a fence, playing a vihuela softly. Though it was only a romantic illusion, I felt it all the same. De Narvaez was truly a gifted Renaissance composer and more than that, a gift to the world.

[@ElCidsays]

Are you sure you're not filled with fernweh? Be careful, if you listen too much, you're apt to coddiwomple.

[@ElCidsays]

@UCajhcvuYOGVcOh_kBu07E_w I had never heard of them either. I stumbled across them while looking up your words. I experience intense anemoia when I listen to Valses Poeticos by Granados, especially played by Julian Bream.

[@StevenBornfeld]

@@ElCidsays That recording of Granados and Albeniz is my fave guitar recording of all time

[@amber40494]

When I was in music school I had to go to the library to listen to guardame las vacas. So nice to hear more than that on youtube!

[@debussy3222]

Quizás fue tu memoria genética, la mayor parte de nuestros antepasados han arado el campo desde tiempos inmemoriales.

[@lucclarebots8649]

Come back regularly to this wonderful interpretation. Thank you!

[@konstantinosstavroualevras9808]

My great respects to Hopkinson Smith, who chose to learn this obliviated instrument, so us to be lucky enough to enjoy this so sensitive and graceful music.

[@nextlifeonearth]

It has the same tuning as a 6-course renaissance lute. Some lute players play vihuela de mano repertoire without even knowing it was written for a vihuela and you can find vihuela pieces in lute books (and vice versa). You can give a vihuela to a given lute player and he'll be able to play on it. Source: I play both.

[@questionanswer9790]

@@nextlifeonearth where do you get them? I have been wanting both for a long time. Who sells them?

[@nextlifeonearth]

@@questionanswer9790 I got a vihuela from an uncle of mine, who is a retired builder so no luck there, but I got another from the chap at diabolus.org (England). I got my lutes second hand, but you need to be lucky for that. You can look for builders all over the world, but you will typically have to commission, and that's often expensive. Consider Diabolos one of the cheaper options.

[@questionanswer9790]

@@nextlifeonearth thank you! I’ll have to check it out!

[@t.e.1189]

@@nextlifeonearth Thank you for sharing that information. I was not aware of that. I love the lute!

[@livu69]

It's not accurate. I made it based on the track length written by Eva Dorfner, starting from 0:00, adding the length for each track 00:00:00 1 Fantasia Del Quarto Tono [Segundo Libro] 3:15 00:03:18 2 Una Baxa De Contra Punto [Sesto Libro] 1:11 00:04:32 3 Fantasia Del Segundo Tono [Primer Libro] 3:21 00:07:56 4 Fantasia Del Quarto Tono [Primer Libro] 3:29 00:11:28 5 La Cancion Del Emperador. Mille Regres Del Quarto Tono De Josquin [Tercero Libro] 3:02 00:14:33 6 Je Veulx Laysser Melancolie De Ricafort [Tercero Libro] 1:43 00:16:19 7 Fantasia Del Septimo Tono Sobre Ut Re Mi Mi [Primer Libro] 4:08 00:20:30 8 Siete Diferencias De Guarda Me Las Vacas [Sesto Libro] 6:02 00:26:35 9 Fantasia Del Primer Tono [Primer Libro] 2:54 00:29:32 10 Fantasia Del Octavo Tono [Primer Libro] 3:03 00:32:38 11 Sanctus De La Missa De Faysan Regres De Josquin. Osanna De La Misma Missa [Tercero Libro) 3:18 00:35:59 12 Fantasia Del Sesto Tono Sobre Fa Ut Mi Re [Primer Libro] 3:30 00:39:32 13 Fantasia Del Quinto Tono [Secundo Libro] 1:59 00:41:34 14 Seys Diferencias Del Hyno De Nuestra Senoza. O Gloriosa Domina (Quarto Libro) 7:41 00:49:18 15 Sanctus De La Missa D'ercules Dux Ferarie De Josquin. Ossana De La Misma Missa [Tercero Libro] 3:19 00:52:40 16 Fantasia Del Primer Tono [Segundo Libro] 1:13 00:53:56 17 Una Cancion De Gombert Del Primer Tono [Tercero Libro] 2:08 00:56:07 18 Fantasia Del Primer Tono [Segundo Libro) 0:58 00:57:08 19 Cum Sancto Spiritu De La Missa De La Fuga De Josquin [Tercero Libro] 2:13 00:59:24 20 Fantasia Del Tercero Tono [Primer Tono] 3:02 01:02:29 21 Veynte Y Dos Diferencias De Conde Claros [Sesto Libro] 2:46

[@quetzalcoatl8060]

¡¡¡GRACIAS!!!

[@gianpierocabanillashuaman3426]

Thank you!

[@MegaCirse]

Like the first light of dawn, this music opens the eyes to new promises and all the wonders of nature. Evocative of belief in "the afterlife" and powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, draw nostalgia and awaken loves, skinned lives and sleepy watchmen

[@evadorfner2899]

1 Fantasia Del Quarto Tono [Segundo Libro] 3:15 2 Una Baxa De Contra Punto [Sesto Libro] 1:11 3 Fantasia Del Segundo Tono [Primer Libro] 3:21 4 Fantasia Del Quarto Tono [Primer Libro] 3:29 5 La Cancion Del Emperador. Mille Regres Del Quarto Tono De Josquin [Tercero Libro] 3:02 6 Je Veulx Laysser Melancolie De Ricafort [Tercero Libro] 1:43 7 Fantasia Del Septimo Tono Sobre Ut Re Mi Mi [Primer Libro] 4:08 8 Siete Diferencias De Guarda Me Las Vacas [Sesto Libro] 6:02 9 Fantasia Del Primer Tono [Primer Libro] 2:54 10 Fantasia Del Octavo Tono [Primer Libro] 3:03 11 Sanctus De La Missa De Faysan Regres De Josquin. Osanna De La Misma Missa [Tercero Libro) 3:18 12 Fantasia Del Sesto Tono Sobre Fa Ut Mi Re [Primer Libro] 3:30 13 Fantasia Del Quinto Tono [Secundo Libro] 1:59 14 Seys Diferencias Del Hyno De Nuestra Senoza. O Gloriosa Domina (Quarto Libro) 7:41 15 Sanctus De La Missa D'ercules Dux Ferarie De Josquin. Ossana De La Misma Missa [Tercero Libro] 3:19 16 Fantasia Del Primer Tono [Segundo Libro] 1:13 17 Una Cancion De Gombert Del Primer Tono [Tercero Libro] 2:08 18 Fantasia Del Primer Tono [Segundo Libro) 0:58 19 Cum Sancto Spiritu De La Missa De La Fuga De Josquin [Tercero Libro] 2:13 20 Fantasia Del Tercero Tono [Primer Tono] 3:02 21 Veynte Y Dos Diferencias De Conde Claros [Sesto Libro] 2:46

[@PutitinDaramen]

its people like you who save people who are just having a bad day and every little thing seems to get in their way.

[@evadorfner2899]

@@PutitinDaramen thank you so much! You made my day! ;-)

[@PutitinDaramen]

np keep doin what u do.

[@MorganBallardWheeler]

Yes, you have no idea how much time you saved me for my class. Thank you!

[@graziavaleriani5234]

Grazie

[@TalentedDilittante]

This music--any music, except "rap"--is a refuge from ever-present barbarism.

[@jean-francoismasson]

Magnifique ! de compréhension du texte et une interprétation délicate au dessus de toute éloge ! quel son ! l'instrument est superbe,et très bel enregistrement !

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

the ultimate music for philosophers and poets

[@twilight4192]

Why this doesn't have 100 Million views is beyond me! Fantastic music, and playing!

[@swordoff7]

Mark Darnell, My guess is that this music is not being played in music centers such as the one in San Fran. One time I emailed the San Fran orchestra committee complaining they should entertain working with artists such as the one being played here. The orchestra Maestro answered himself saying the composers played by the San Fran orchestra were very diverse. Ha! Sure.

[@banjoboy01]

why does everyone call a musician an artist, did that come from television?

[@danielcano4876]

A piece of music is a piece of art.

[@pepe6518]

optimistic, are there 100 million intelligent and sensitive people?

[@SubliminalSoundEngine9]

We need to understand History and Modernism. Baroque music slowly began to fell in historic oblivion, and Neoclasical music appeared after it, as the beginning of a new "era". Neoclassical music fell in historic oblivion too, and some of the music we have nowadays began to appear in history. When there's a trending music or movement and it becomes a mark in time, almost everyone will set their eyes on it, and only focus on it. I think that's what they call as "Pop culture", and only those who don't belong to Pop culture will be constantly looking for something "new", something that was left behind by everyone and is worth remembering/re-adapting to actual years.

[@marthauribelopez7589]

Cada vez q lo oigo me gusta más. Es hermoso y tranquilo.

[@EduardoRodriguez-ks4em]

For some moments I was on top of my worldly concerns, I don't know if I'll be here tomorrow, but I know true beauty from these notes. May All listeners of this wonder, have a glorious future!

[@carolynmoss7202]

What a kind and generous sentiment to us all at the end of your message!

[@MinhajArifin]

fine words, thank you for the good thoughts

[@EduardoRodriguez-ks4em]

@@carolynmoss7202 Thanks dearest Carolyn 💐

[@EduardoRodriguez-ks4em]

@@MinhajArifin Thanks to You, dear friend ☺🌹

[@kathrynmcmorrow7170]

Eduardo, once again, it's so refreshing to me, when guys like you evince the chivalry of a born gentleman.

[@amber40494]

Its so wonderful to hear so many great performances of these early works on youtube!

[@antonioantinolfo2804]

E mi lascio cullare da queste note, nella luce di un mattino primigenio che sa di promesse belle e voluttuose I miei complimenti

[@1963APOLO]

Me encanta como suena este instrumento, muy barroco muy relajante, linda interpretación, mil gracias por subir este video.

[@luizfernandolessa1889]

A vihuela, a harpa, o violão e outros instrumentos de cordas têm o poder de trazer um pouco de paz aos homens e, talvez, até para os animais, pois até minha cachorrinha fica mais tranquila. Forte abraço do Brasil.

[@ignaciofernandez5876]

la gravedad , el ensonñamiento, la paz, la majestad, el espíritu profundo, la meditación, lo exquisito, el alma... la vihuela, instrumento que requiere de una técnica y maestría, apreciado en la Corte inglesa de los Tudor.

[@ruzicvioleta299]

wunderschön...einfach sagenhaft schön...danke für die berührung der seele...

[@davidtokar4065]

Track List: 1. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del quarto tono (segundo libro) 2. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Una baxa de contra punto (sesto libro) 3. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del segundo tono (primer libro) 4. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del quarto tono (primer libro) 5. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: La cancion del Emperador. Mille regres del quarto tono de Josquin (tercero libro) 6. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Je veulx laysser melancolie de Ricafort (tercero libro) 7. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del septimo tono sobre ut re mi mi (primer libro) 8. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Siete diferencias de guarda me las vacas (sesto libro) 9. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del primer tono (primer libro) 10. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del octavo tono (primer libro) 11. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Sanctus de la missa de Faysan regres de Josquin. Osanna de la misma missa (tercero libro) 12. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del sesto tono sobre fa ut mi re (primer libro) 13. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del quinto tono (secundo libro) 14. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Seys diferencias del hyno de nuestra Senoza. O gloriosa domina (quarto libro) 15. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Sanctus de la missa d'Ercules dux ferarie de Josquin. Ossana de la misma missa (tercero libro) 16. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del primer tono (segundo libro) 17. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Una cancion de Gombert del primer tono (tercero libro) 18. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del primer tono (segundo libro) 19. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Cum sancto spiritu de la missa de la fuga de Josquin (tercero libro) 20. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Fantasia del tercero tono (primer tono) 21. Los seys libros del Delphin de musica: Veynte y dos diferencias de Conde claros (sesto libro)

[@Acvanweele]

David Tokar thank you

[@davidtokar4065]

@@Acvanweele You're welcome! There is so much music on this CD, I thought listeners would appreciate knowing the titles.

[@ivyrosewillows-wood8570]

@@davidtokar4065 Knowing which track is playing (time), would also be very helpful. The ability to go directly to the start of each track, would be Fantastic!

[@JohannBaritono]

Thank you.

[@davidtokar4065]

@@JohannBaritono Your're welcome. I find it frustrating to listen to any music l love without knowing the titles, so since they were easy to find, I though, "Why not?" Enjoy, and Happy New Year!

[@rhymeswithsweet2067]

THANK YOU, -- making this music available here is of great service to music..

[@mauriciocotapos313]

Hermosa e introspectiva música….gracias….👏👏👏👏👏

[@christopherheinig5590]

Beautiful beautiful fabulous fantastic ! Thank you for sharing !

[@claudiombaied837]

OH OH EXQUISITO ! MUY BUENA GRABACION, EXCELENTE INSTRUMENTO, EJECUTANTE SUPERLATIVO !

[@marioenriqueacosta6186]

el gran polifonista y maestro, Luis de Narvaez!

[@floriancasper4959]

Solo la Vihuela puede expresar ese sentimiento .

[@denissousa489]

Exacto

[@rodrigopedroza8987]

Qué dices ciudadano del inframundo, jajajaja.

[@pernordin2641]

Beautiful Renaissance / pre-Barroque music on a very beautiful instrument.

[@pernordin2641]

Sounds actually a bit like John Dowland in parts. I recognize some phrases and lines, which is not strange as they belong to the same musical era and family of thought.

[@mariaashot5648]

¡Pero que hermosura!

[@jearls7191]

Luys de Narvaez fue un inovador increible... sus juegos de ritmos (ejm en las 6 vacas) es brilliante.

[@TalentedDilittante]

Do I hear nail instead of bare fingertip? No matter. What wonderful MUSIC! This musician LISTENS!

[@liljejohansson9461]

I'm with Weiss in that while nails are good for larger ensemble music nails on a solo instrument and small ensemble just make the instrument feel empty. It takes a ton of the warmth. Plus I can't unhear the double-striking of the courses.

[@FrankieParadiso4evah]

@@liljejohansson9461 Why is Virginia Luque the only modern virtuoso to play the guitar with her fingertips instead of nails? Once heard, addicted forever.

[@alexandriak42]

Charming sound of the old music - love it

[@johnhudelson2652]

This is the best music I have come across to lull me to sleep. Thanks, "Hoppy" Smith.

[@tokyolatinboys]

Nobunaga織田信長, samurai king of Japan, should have listened to this sound of music at church located at the foot of his Azuchi Castle in 1581😀 Miraculous！

[@josejoaoaiex9106]

Hopkinson Smith dispensa apresentações pois é o mestre dos mestres.

[@dinodba7378]

El gran Maestro Hopkinson Smith.

[@paulshields4838]

P{u} u pi up

[@shaughnfourie304]

SO beautiful thank you

[@cyrusbrand71]

Meraviglioso! Grazie per compartiré questa bellissima melodia!

[@ensambleaureavoce]

Sólo se puede agradecer..!

[@pabloenriquetirabassi7060]

Que belleza, me transporta...........

[@juanantoniogallegosegundo3228]

La musica es maravillosa.gra cias a comppsitores interpretes etc.

[@danielbetancortelvira6286]

Yo creo que el ser humano llegó a su culmen en el renacimiento y el barroco. En relación a la pintura, la música... el arte en general.

[@debussy3222]

No sé si llegó a tanto, pero creo que el hombre llegó muy alto en Grecia, el Renacimiento redescubrió el mundo antigüo.

[@danielbetancortelvira6286]

@@debussy3222 Estoy de acuerdo. La verdad es que pensar que lo que nos queda culturalmente es involución y que todo está descubierto pone los pelos de punta.

[@mariaalvarado-bv2ky]

Me encanta. Muchas gracias

[@thomasc390]

THANK YOU!

[@ihsxps5424]

Don Luys de Narvaez de Granada.

[@gloriaivandavalossha]

¡¡ HERMOSO !!

[@diegocalvorodriguez]

Gracias

[@noragarza8628]

Very Beautiful!

[@noragarza8628]

😎😍👩‍🚀

[@LuisAGomez-nr4cp]

Wonderful!

[@cubbonpup]

Thanking you... For such beautiful music.....

[@raymonddobos8896]

i hope to louvre baroque lutes and strings just to sit down and relearn harmonics

[@callemoslosbrutose4807]

Que belleza. Gracias por traenos esta musica celestial.

[@madelcarmengarciagarcia4523]

callemos los brutos E En Guadalajara sigue el amor por el ARTE D VIHUELA. HOY CONFERENCIA EN LA BIBLIOTECA SOBRE MUDARRA EN EL PALACIO DL INFANTADO...

[@haimlute]

Una maravilla

[@freynarvaez1440]

¡Oh, sacratísimo abuelo! Qué música tan bella habéis escrito...

[@rodolfosilva6153]

¡Gracias!

[@theneutralplatform4834]

Such sweet melancholy!

[@avimukta1]

Thank You for this:)

[@pamelajoyce91]

The lute is such a gentle instrument and one I love, played so well here

[@dinobibolotti8351]

This instrument is "The Vihuela de mano" similar to the Lute.

[@charlesjohanesen1651]

@@dinobibolotti8351 Tuned like a Lute, looks like a guitar.

[@saxman1993]

Muchas gracias por esta hermosa música.

[@thomasc390]

🎄And again, thank you!🎄

[@michaelreaper666]

So good Thanks :)

[@ericsguitar7813]

Peacefully satisfying. Thank you.

[@thefuzzypenguin778]

peaceful and lovely

[@SamuelLawson]

I recognise several, but I would love to see a list of titles with times. Masterfully rendered on this amazing instrument!

[@Krabadaque]

I agree! I used to (try to) play Guardame las vacas (something about taking care of the cows, I think) when I studied guitar. "It seems about a hundred years ago".

[@kathrynmcmorrow7170]

David Tokar was good enough to leave the track list in his comment. However, not time stamps.

[@pptimebtxh2425]

Una belleza de música

[@nancyjwilson8393]

I was looking for a song once heard and found an aural treasure trove - thank you!

[@NoNo-vy3dg]

That is a gorgeous guitar.

[@nextlifeonearth]

It's not, it's a vihuela de mano.

[@TheGrmany69]

​@@nextlifeonearth actually yes, it is, it's shaped like a baroque guitar, the main difference between the both is that the vihuela is tuned like a lute and has more or so double strings.

[@nextlifeonearth]

@@TheGrmany69 It also has 6 courses as opposed to a baroque guitar's 5, is a few inches shorter and its strings are typically under a lower pressure. They're different instruments. I should know, because I play both.

[@TheGrmany69]

@@nextlifeonearth But it is a type of guitar, like the cuatro or the charango...

[@jameslouder]

If I may clear up some some of the confusion about the vihuela vs. the guitar. The two instruments are very closely related, with the same incurved sides, flat back, fretted neck, and strings lying in a plane. They are brother and sister, if you like, or perhaps mother and daughter. The vihuela (also called 'viola da mano' in Italy and Portugal) is rightly regarded as the ancestor of today's classical guitar. Today much of its repertoire is also played by classical guitarists, including several of the pieces by by Luís de Narváez which we hear in this video. The instrument in the video is a vihuela. In the early 16th century, when Luís de Narváez published his book (1538), the guitar still had only four courses and was generally smaller than the vihuela, which had six. The vihuela was tuned like a lute, nominally g'-d'-a-f-c-G, and like the lute, its repertoire was polyphonic music. Juan Bermudo* writing in 1555 says explicitly, if you want to turn your vihuela into a guitar, just take off the first and sixth courses. The tuning then becomes d'-a-f-c. Guitars, like vihuelas, came in a variety of sizes and smaller guitars tuned e'-b-g-d would have been common. The guitar didn't acquire its fifth string until later in the 16th century, when the tuning became e'-b-g-d-A**. By the year 1600 the guitar was displacing the vihuela in popular use, and began to grow fashionable in countries like France and the Netherlands, where it hadn't been known before--also in Italy, where it was called the 'chitarra spagnola'. (The Italian 'chitarra' was a small, high-pitched lute. The name 'Spanish guitar' appears in English a bit later on and was still in use right into the 20th century.) Baroque guitars came to be tuned tuned in a variety of ways, including re-entrant tunings comparable to that of today's five-string banjo. Some were for plucking, others for strumming; or for a combination of the two. But the old tuning (4th-3rd-4th-4th) persisted. When the guitar acquired its 6th string c. 1780, the tuning finally settled down to the one we know today: e'-b-g-d-A-E. ____________________ *El libro llamado Declaración de instrumentos musicales(Osuna, 1555/R, chap. lxv). He describes the guitar as smaller ('mas corto') than the vihuela. **Again, this is nominal pitch. We have to remember there was no standard pitch in those days. Writers like Bermudo only say tune the first string as high as you can without breaking it.

[@joeblow-ed1ez]

one word...Superb !! a maestro..to be sure...

[@rickamacho7]

Excelente!!

[@therealzilch]

Masterful music, masterfully played.

[@barbarabenvenuto7146]

It's such beautiful Music!😊

[@laviniacapogna4]

Absolutely beautiful

[@eduardodepaula4181]

Brilhante!

[@clydeblair9622]

Love it.

[@jaimetorres950]

Yesterday I held in my own hands an original Cédula Real from king Phillip II to the Audiencia in the Nuevo Reino de Granada. This is what he liked

[@ericdelf]

Elegant delight.

[@d4ro]

perfeito

[@cgvcony9895]

M Me encanta😃

[@RockyStein100]

musica molto più moderna di tanta musica moderna!

[@alleluiamichel]

Merci :-)

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This is a sound of the soul

[@headsails]

Exquisite bridge ornamentation.

[@jamjam7921]

Beautiful

[@DavidGKim-fw1uw]

Thanks to Eva Dorfner! I made some changes to time codes for easy reference. 1 Fantasia Del Quarto Tono [Segundo Libro] 0:02 3:15 2 Una Baxa De Contra Punto [Sesto Libro] 3:15 1:11 3 Fantasia Del Segundo Tono [Primer Libro] 4:26 3:21 4 Fantasia Del Quarto Tono [Primer Libro] 8:02 3:29 5 La Cancion Del Emperador. Mille Regres Del Quarto Tono De Josquin [Tercero Libro] 11:06 1:43 6 Je Veulx Laysser Melancolie De Ricafort [Tercero Libro] 12:58 3:02 7 Fantasia Del Septimo Tono Sobre Ut Re Mi Mi [Primer Libro] 4:08 8 Siete Diferencias De Guarda Me Las Vacas [Sesto Libro] 17:06 6:02 9 Fantasia Del Primer Tono [Primer Libro] 23:18 2:54 10 Fantasia Del Octavo Tono [Primer Libro] 3:03 11 Sanctus De La Missa De Faysan Regres De Josquin. Osanna De La Misma Missa [Tercero Libro) 3:18 12 Fantasia Del Sesto Tono Sobre Fa Ut Mi Re [Primer Libro] 3:30 13 Fantasia Del Quinto Tono [Secundo Libro] 1:59 14 Seys Diferencias Del Hyno De Nuestra Senoza. O Gloriosa Domina (Quarto Libro) 7:41 15 Sanctus De La Missa D'ercules Dux Ferarie De Josquin. Ossana De La Misma Missa [Tercero Libro] 3:19 16 Fantasia Del Primer Tono [Segundo Libro] 1:13 17 Una Cancion De Gombert Del Primer Tono [Tercero Libro] 2:08 18 Fantasia Del Primer Tono [Segundo Libro) 0:58 19 Cum Sancto Spiritu De La Missa De La Fuga De Josquin [Tercero Libro] 2:13 20 Fantasia Del Tercero Tono [Primer Tono] 3:02 21 Veynte Y Dos Diferencias De Conde Claros [Sesto Libro] 2:46

[@emiliocastilhopiano8631]

you have some wrong numbers there. But the setlist is useful.

[@patri1689]

I love this. I'm playing it a bit loud reading metaphysical book and it is as if someone is playing a guitar for me in a real time. And it is interesting when the strings are being played, I can hear them distinctively in parts of my brain. I feel like truly alive---so good, so deep!!! Thanks for sharing this with us, your fellow human race passing death to a Blessed Life of God where always the love of God is the food of souls..

[@jasonsummit1885]

I would love to have a guitar like that!😁

[@Leonecta]

It is called Vihuela, and many believe it to be the predecesor of the guitar. Fine looking and sounding intstrument. :)

[@nickcobb865]

also known as a baroque guitar, just in case you want to pay big bucks for a Luther to make you one :)

[@johnhudelson2652]

@@nickcobb865 A baroque guitar has only 5 courses and is tuned like the top 5 strings of a guitar (A2,D3,G3,B3,E4). A vihuela, an earlier instrument, typically has 6 courses and is tuned like a 6-course Renaissance lute (G2,C3,F3,A3,D4,G4)

[@mickbachner]

@@johnhudelson2652 well - if you look at the instrument you will see that it has 5 courses and the top string is a single string !

[@johnhudelson2652]

@@mickbachner Lutes and vihuela typically had only one string for the highest pitch.

[@alvarogaleano7863]

Un saludo al más allá, a mi amigo bachlokillo, Juan Manuel.

[@bobgold57]

Somehow, between the beauty of the simplicity and the gorgeous performance, I'm unable to leave the video. Which is not good. I have other things I need to get to. I'm hoping that the sheet music is not that hard to find. Thank you!

[@TheGrmany69]

Learn Spanish if you really want to... and Latin.

[@bobgold57]

@@TheGrmany69 Spanish yes! Maybe Italian over Latin.

[@TheGrmany69]

@@bobgold57 Many lyrics are in Latin, Luys de Victoria wrote everything in Latin.

[@DuncanRBell-tj9dm]

Thanks for this great music! I thought a vihuela was a South American animal like an alpaca! (No, not really, but forgive my moment of levity :)

[@dennismosercreativearts]

:) ... you're thinking of the vicuña, a very close relative of the alpaca.

[@Renshen1957]

Definitely not a Llama

[@fridunando]

Renshen1957 A llama from Tibet?

[@CLESZAEN]

Its similar to Spanish Guitar Llama is a animal located in the frontier Chile , Peru , Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina and Vicuña its other animal is a Patriotic symbol of Peru , thanks

[@almishti]

A vihuela is a cross between a capybara and a giant tortoise. Or an armadillo. They look like rodents but they're more related to pigs. They spend a lot of time in the water so they've evolved hard plates on their backs as a defense against crocodiles. The plates developed from their long fur as it got matted together, like dreadlocks, eventually becoming so compacted it became solid, like fingernails. For a time, the vihuela was hunted to near extinction, in the late 19th century, b/c of a fashion trend among aristocratic ladies in the cities of the Andes to wear 'breast protectors' or 'mama guardia' as they were called then. The compacted-hair plates of the vihuela were just the right size and contour to fit snugly around a woman's boobies and both make them look firm and perky and safeguard against unwanted advances from over-enthusiastic gauchos. Fortunately, the vihuela is a protected species and has made a comeback since then.

[@KarlMiller-DjKarl]

Enjoyable ... ☮🔥

[@MsStarbuck11]

Does the instrument in the photo actually exist? What is it? It's gorgeous. The music, as always, is gorgeous as well.

[@vero-kd8vg]

It's a vihuela de mano. A precursor of the guitar, I think

[@shanaqbaimuru]

¡Gracias por esta delicia!

[@teusvandentop1359]

mooi😍