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Il est impossible de ne pas être absolument fasciné par le travail de Matéo Crémades (33 ans), proche de la préciosité ou de la virtuosité, et de réfléchir immédiatement à la sophistication que nous pouvons atteindre, en tant qu’espèce, dans n’importe quelle discipline à laquelle nous sommes confrontés. Je ne peux pas penser à un […]
I always had this idea about doing some art work cats and lutes for a while and, finally, I was lucky to found Nathan Nun and his awesome work at Etsy. Most of the public illustrations made by Nathan are human-characterized cats playing different roles, even some of them were already related to music. […]
D e among all the symbols that the lute has meant throughout history: pleasure, joy, eroticism, festive atmosphere, sensuality , concordia , melancholy (semper Dowland, semper dolens) … there is one, not so well known, that was perfectly reflected by the artists of the time. So, although the lute is always associated with the […]
Cover image: Printer press, s. XVI If I had to stay with just one of the most exciting moments from the birth of Cuerdas Pulsadas , it would certainly be the moment when We decided on the final version of the logo. We always had a fairly precise idea of how we wanted […]
Ten long years have passed since the constitution of the Sociedad de la Vihuela : one of the main institutions that structure, enact and promote the plucked string in Spain and, very especially, that part of that heritage that is our own: the vihuela. During this time there have been many people who have […]
Today Santa Cecilia , patron saint of music and poetry ( perhaps due to a translation error ), who was usually represented with three icons: the rose, the organ and the lute. Precisely like this it was represented by the French painter Jacques Blanchard (1600 –1638): So, congratulations to all the musicians! […]
Liamna Pestana puts on sale an 8-order Renaissance lute built in the city of Querétaro, Mexico in 2010, by Ibiza Ávalos and Jean Espino. Its most important characteristics are: Maple body Spruce top Mexican ebony fingerboard Wooden rosette The sale price is 1200 euros, and the shipping costs are paid by the buyer. In this […]
We thank Joel López for sharing at Cuerdas Pulsadas the transposition to a current language of “Declaración de la cifra que en este libro se usa” which can be found in the essential book by Antonio Cabezón, “Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela”. For those who do not know Joel in his usual […]
Cover photo, courtesy of Cristina Quílez. Few are the plucked string soloists who dedicate themselves to the Renaissance and even fewer those who do so to the repertoire of the vihuela, where I think there is still much to study and listen to. To this select group we owe the rescue and dissemination of […]
