| Document | Date | Century | City | Province |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernardo de Balbuena, El Bernardo o la victoria de Roncesvalles. | 1624 | 17cent/1/early | Madrid | Madrid |
Verses from a poem of 1624 from a scene that takes place “In Morgana’s palace” [En el palacio de Morgana] that cites “cítaras, liras y cantores, vihuelas y harpas” seemingly playing together.
| Document type | Subject | Siglum | Archive name | Call no. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| literary print | Literature Vihuelas Performance Practice |
Exhalando perfumes y vapores
de aromas finas, pebeteros de oro,
con lo mejor de Arabia y sus olores
fiesta a la diosa hacen del tesoro,
y de cítaras, liras y cantores,
vihuelas y harpas, un tropel sonoro
en conforme y suavísima harmonía,
le añaden gala a la que nace el día.
| Name | Status when cited | Social status |
|---|---|---|
| Balbuena, Bernardo | Living |
Pepe Rey cites this in his page of evidence concerning the use of vihuelas in ensemble. Source: Pepe Rey, https://veterodoxia-peperey.es/2010/10/la-vihuela-concertada, accessed 18/08/2022. See balbuena1624, fol. 12 and rosellPOE, 154.
| Code | Author | Item | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| corona1999 | Corona-Alcalde, Antonio. | “The Players and Performance Practice of the Vihuela and its related Instruments, the Lute and the Guitar, from c. 1450 to c.1650. as revealed by a Study of Literary, Musical, Theoretical, and Archival Sources”. Diss. King's College, University of London, 1999. | |
| balbuena1624 | Balbuena, Bernardo de. | El Bernardo o la victoria de Roncesvalles. Madrid, 1624. | |
| rosellPOE | Rosell, Cayetano (ed.). | Poemas épicos Vol 1. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Españoles 17, 1917. |