Luys de Narvaez 

The Renaissance was quite a barbaric time.

Well said

@@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.

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

@@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.

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

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

@@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

@@sethfleishman5346 That's true too

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

Qué hermoso y certero comentario

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.

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

@@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.

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

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

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

@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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

A piece of music is a piece of art.

optimistic, are there 100 million intelligent and sensitive people?

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.

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

fine words, thank you for the good thoughts

@@carolynmoss7202 Thanks dearest Carolyn 💐

@@MinhajArifin Thanks to You, dear friend ☺🌹

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

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.

Exacto

Qué dices ciudadano del inframundo, jajajaja.

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

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

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

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

np keep doin what u do.

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

Grazie

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...

¡¡¡GRACIAS!!!

Thank you!

P{u} u pi up

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.

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

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

​@@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.

@@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.

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

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.

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".

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

David Tokar thank you

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

@@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!

Thank you.

@@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!

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