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El libro “La abuela vihuela” esta confeccionado como un cuento con arreglos musicales, narrado de manera sencilla, mezclando realidad y ficción, a través del cual ir descubriendo este cautivador instrumento llamado vihuela de mano. A lo largo de nueve capítulos se presentarán: la historia del instrumento, el tipo de construcción, la notación […]
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 we have the pleasure of sharing an interview with the musicologist Gracia María Gil < / a>, with whom I was fortunate to begin my studies of plucked string a few years ago in Salamanca, under the guidance of Rafael Muñoz. After returning from her stay at the University of Melbourne (where she […]
Given the great diffusion that our previous publication has had and the repercussion in the regional media that it has had the fantastic project of Fran and her students , I think the most appropriate thing is to collect these echoes here, in addition to the photos that were taken during Aníbal Soriano’s visit (president […]
A few months ago, John Griffiths shared with us an eye-catching project that was in the making in Trujillo (Cáceres) … The idea was so simple that we It seemed crazy: the technology students of the Francisco Orellana institute were embarking on the construction of nine vihuelas. Without prior knowledge of Lutheranism, without having previously […]
The “ Society of the Vihuela, the lute and the guitar ” does not need an introduction for those of us who are part of the plucked string, but it is not needless to present it as a national cultural association (created in 2004) in order to spread and promote the knowledge and study of […]
In the summer of 2011, the VII annual meeting of the Sociedad de la Vihuela was held in Gijón and, following in the wake of similar events, a new international meeting of lute societies, with representation from countries such as France, United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Argentina or Belgium. As part of the collaboration of Cuerdas […]
Cuerdas Pulsadas had a place in number 13 of the Vihuela Society magazine, Hispanica Lyra, published in June 2011. We encourage you to visit the SDLV website and to purchase some of its always well-cared publications.
