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Ancient and Early Music

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A community for Medieval and Renaissance-era music (as well as music before those periods).

Baroque music should be posted to !baroque@lemmy.world

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The vihuela is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of the lute in Italy and has a large resultant repertory. There were usually five or six doubled strings.

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