Creator Díaz Romano, Francisco

Medium Artwork: Woodcut

City Valencia | Region Valencia | Old kingdom Aragon

ARTWORK
This is the vihuela depicted in the prefatory material of El Maestro. It has the pitches of the open strings drawn onto the strings which are part of the author’s explanation of the instrument’s tuning.

INSTRUMENT
An elegantly proportioned vihuela de mano with taracea decorations on the soundboard. It is depicted with six strings but twelve pegs on the pegbox. This is one of the best known images of the vihuela and has been reproduced many times in many publications.

Milán, Luis. El Maestro. Ed. Charles Jacobs. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.

Milán, Luis. Libro de Musica de vihuela de mano. Intitulado El maestro. El qual trahe el mesmo estilo y orden que un maestro traheria con vn discipulo principiante: mostrandose ordenadamen/te desde los principios toda cosa que podria ignorar para entender la presente obra de vihuela de mano. Valencia: Francisco Díaz Romano, 1536.

Milán, Luis. Libro de Musica de vihuela de mano. Intitulado El maestro. Valencia: Francisco Díaz Romano, 1536. Digital reproduction ed. Gerardo Arriaga, Carlos González, Javier Somoza, Libros de música para vihuela, 1536-1576. Córdoba: Música Prima, 2003.

Gétreau, Florence. “L’iconographie de la vihuela”. Aux origines de la guitare: la vihuela de mano. Ed. Joël Dugot. Paris: Musée de la Musique, 2004. 41-49.

Ward, John M. “The ‘Vihuela de mano’ and its Music, 1536-1576”. Diss., New York University, 1953.