Nigel North: Continuo Playing on the Lute, Archlute and Theorbo
A Comprehensive Guide for Performers
- Author: North, Nigel
Book
$63.75Contents
- PART ONE; THE THEORBO, CHITARRONE AND ARCHLUTE
- 1 An Historical Background: Musical Qualities of each Instrument
- 2 Practical Advice
- 3 List of Appropriate Repertory
- PART TWO: HARMONY AND FIGURES
- 4 An harmonic precis
- 5 Cadences, Sequences and Unfigured Basses
- 6 Finer Points concerning Style, Technique and Performance
- PART THREE: FIRST PRACTICAL STEPS
- 7 Lute and Archlute
- 8 Exercises and Musical Extracts from Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-century Sources
- PART FOUR: THE THEORBO
- 9 An Introduction to the Theorbo
- 10 The Theorbo, First Practical Steps
- 11 Original Exercises for Theorbo and Lute, with Tablature Cadenze finali (modena MS)
- PART FIVE: MUSIC EXAMPLES
- 12 Music with Original Realized Accompaniments for the Theorbo
- 13 Music with Editorial Realizations for Theorbo, English Theorbo in G, Archlute, 10-course Renaissance Lute and 13-course Baroque Lute
- 14 Music Examples without Realizations
- Appendix: Song Translations
- Notes
- Music List
- Select Bibliography
