Vihuela

Also called vihuela de mano, Spanish renaissance vihuela

The Spanish sixteenth-century plucked vihuela de mano: polyphonic fantasías, diferencias, and song accompaniments in printed books (Milán, Narváez, Mudarra, Valderrábano). It hears Renaissance lute for tuning, tablature, and fantasía literacy, and Renaissance polyphony for intabulated chapel and chanson voices (Mille regretz). It is the court and urban plucked-string parent of Spanish baroque guitar, not the later café toque and not the lute under another name (Tyler and Sparks). Spanish romance leftover as a sung repertory in the books, not a second parent. Italian lute leftover as already filed under Renaissance lute.