A Guide to Playing the Baroque Guitar

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part 1. The Basics
• 1. The Instrument
• 2. Tuning and Stringing
• 3. Technique
• 4. Reading Tablature Notation
• Italian Tablature
• French Tablature
• 5.The Fundamentals of Battuto (Strumming) Technique
• Simple Strokes
• Rhythmic Ornamentation
• 6. Reading Mixed Tablature Notation
• Performance Markings
• Ornament Signs
• More about Alfabeto
• 7. Idioms Unique to the Baroque Guitar
• "Inversionless" Chords
• Campanelas
• The Selective Playing of Bourdons
• 8. A Note on Basso Continuo
• Part 2. An Anthology of Music for Baroque Guitar
• Introduction to the Anthology
• 9. Pieces Suitable for Stringing A
• Pavanas por la D / Gaspar Sanz (1675)
• Suite of English Tunes / Elizabeth Cromwell's Manuscript (ca. 1684)
• Corrente nona / Ferdinando Valdambrini (1646)
• Allemande-Sarabande / Antoine Carre (1671)
• 10. Pieces suitable for Stringing B
• Prelud[io]-Chiacona / Francesco Corbetta (1648)
• Alemanda-Corrente-Sarabanda-Giga / Giovanni Battista Granata (1674)
• Passacaille dite Mariona / Lelio Colista (ca. 1675)
• Prelude / Angelo Michele Bartolotti (ca. 1655)
• Allemande "La Furieuse" / Francois Campion (1705)
• Folies d'Espagne / Francois Le Cocq (ca. 1700)
• 11. Pieces Suitable for Stringing C
• Pavaniglia con parti variate / Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (ca. 1630)
• Aria di Fiorenza / Anonymous/Carlo Calvi (1646)
• Capriccio-Sarabanda-Capriccio / Francesco Asioli (1676)
• Jacaras / Francisco Guerau (1694)
• 12. Pieces for Guitar and Basso Continuo
• Sinfonia a 2 / Francesco Corbetta (1643)
• Sinfonia a dui / Giovanni Battista Granata (1651)
• Follia: Sonata 12 de Coreli [sic] / Arcangelo Corelli/Anonymous (ca. 1725-30)
• Selected Bibliography
• Index