The Guitar in Tudor England
A Social and Musical History
- Author: Page, Christopher
The book is especially valuable because the author examines both the social and musical history of the guitar. Studies that focus just on one instrument can be sincere but dull, their pages... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Imagery
- 2. Who owned a gittern?
- 3. The gittern trade
- 4. 'An instruction to the Gitterne'
- 5. Sounding strings
- 6. The gittern and Tudor song
- 7. Thomas Whythorne: the autobiography of a Tudor guitarist
- Conclusion
- Appendices: Appendix A. The terms 'gittern' and 'cittern'
- Appendix B. References to gitterns from 1542-1605
- Appendix C. The probate inventory of Dennys Bucke (1584)
- Appendix D. Octave strings on the fourth and third course
- Appendix E. The fiddle tunings of Jerome of Moravia, swept strings and the guitar
- Appendix F. The mandore and the wire-strung gittern
- Appendix G. The ethos of the guitar in sixteenth-century France
- Appendix H. Raphe Bowle.