The Guitar in Tudor England

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.