Marsh Lute Book

Marsh Lute Book

Author: Richard Metzger

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1619110369

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Selected music from the historic "March Lute Book" scored for classic guitar solo. This edition is complete with copious historic and performance notes. A scholarly book containing wonderful solo settings for classic guitar.


Renaissance Lute Repertoire - Lute Tablature Edition

Renaissance Lute Repertoire - Lute Tablature Edition

Author: Rob MacKillop

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2019-03-28

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 161911884X

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Renaissance Lute Repertoire-Lute Tablature Edition can be viewed as either a supplement to the popular Introduction to the Lute: for Lute and Guitar Players or as a standalone edition of 16th-century lute tablatures. Play from beautifully-typeset scores, music by John Dowland, Francesco da Milano, Vincenzo Galilei (father of the famous astronomer) and many others, including vihuela composers Narváez and Milán. Together, this collection provides a beautiful and extensive overview of music for the renaissance lute. This edition is in French lute tablature. There is a separate edition in guitar tablature, Renaissance Lute Repertoire-Guitar Tablature Edition.


John Dowland for Classic Guitar

John Dowland for Classic Guitar

Author: Stephen Siktberg

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 1619112272

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For years, classical guitarists have enjoyed playing the lute music of the English composer, John Dowland (1563-1626). Forty of his beautiful compositions are included in this volume. the book is intended for the guitarist with intermediate to advanced fingerstyle technique, and can be played on both nylon and steel string instruments. In order to help capture the unique character of Dowland's music, renaissance lute tuning (capo on the third fret with the G string tuned to F sharp) is used throughout. the pieces progress more or less in order of increasing difficulty, and special care has been taken to be sure any group of consecutive pieces can be played with satisfying results. Standard notation only. Includes FREE downloadable companion audio files.


Music and Society in Early Modern England

Music and Society in Early Modern England

Author: Christopher Marsh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 1107610249

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Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of English popular music during the early modern period. Accompanied by specially commissioned recordings.


The Scottish Lute

The Scottish Lute

Author: Ronn McFarlane

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1610650727

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This landmark book constitutes Mel Bay's first anthology of Renaissance lute andmandora literature in its original tablature form. It also offers the same 56 tunes tastefully transcribed in standard modern guitar notation and tab. For the academically inclined or those who simply want to examine the original scores, this edition includes a downloadable folio of the original lute and mandoratablature plus a thorough explanation of the lute tablature system. The lute part is included in the book and is also available as an online download


John Dowland

John Dowland

Author: Diana Poulton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9780520046498

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The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia

The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia

Author: Peter K. Marsh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-09-25

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1135874875

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Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely urban, post-industrial, and cosmopolitan one. This study seeks to understand the effects that Western-inspired modernity has had on the nature of cultural tradition in the country, focusing in particular on development of the morin khuur or "horse-head fiddle," a two-stringed bowed folk lute that features a horse’s head carved into its crown. As well as being one of the most popular instruments in the contemporary national musical culture, it has also become an icon of Mongolian national identity and a symbol of the nation’s ancient cultural heritage. In its modern form, however, the horse-head fiddle reflects the values of a modern, cosmopolitan society that put it profoundly at odds with those of the traditional society. In so doing, it also reflects the cosmopolitan nature of the nation’s contemporary national musical culture.


The Lute in Britain

The Lute in Britain

Author: Matthew Spring

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9780195188387

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"Spring focuses on the lute in Britain, but also includes two chapters devoted to continental developments: one on the transition from medieval to renaissance, the other on renaissance to baroque, and the lute in Britain is never treated in isolation. Six chapters cover all aspects of the lute's history and its music in England from 1285 to well into the eighteenth century, whilst other chapters cover the instrument's early history, the lute in consort, lute song accompaniment, the theorbo, and the lute in Scotland."--Jacket.


Giovanni Antonio Terzi: Arranged for Classical Guitar

Giovanni Antonio Terzi: Arranged for Classical Guitar

Author: Vladimir Gorbach

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2013-05-24

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 161911402X

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These selected works by Giovanni Antonio Terzi represent a last flowering of the lute fantasia in a motet-imitative style. They stand at a halfway point between being dependent upon vocal forms and being a product of pure instrumental fantasy. Of the sixteen pieces with "fantasia" in the title, eleven are of Terzi's own invention. Five fantasias are attributed to other composers (nos. 13-17) as indicated in their titles, and adopted for solo lute by Terzi. When arranged for guitar, something special about the character of these fantasias emerges through the instrument. In addition, they are all wonderful works that offer many musical and technical lessons for guitarists.