Marchetti 1660

Marchetti, Tomasso

Il primo libro d'intavolatura della chitarra spagnola . . . (1660)

Overview
Prefatory Material
Notation
Indices
Bibliography
Exemplars

I. Overview

This book appears to be a later edition of anonymous 1648.

Title: Il primo libro d'intavolatura della chitarra spagnola . . . (Rome: Francesco Moneta, 1660).

Description:
64 pp. in movable type [missing pp. 63-4]
57 pieces (+ 4 songs)
Foliation: ABCD (8 ff. each)
Page Size -- I-Bc: 13.7 cm. (width) X c8.1 cm.; F-Pn: 14.9 cm. (width) X 9.7 cm.

II. Prefatory Material

p. (1) -- IL PRIMO LIBRO / D'INTAVOLATURA / DELLA CHITARRA SPAGNOLA. / Composto, e dato in luce da Tomasso Marchetti Romano, / Con una regola facilissima per poter'imparar'à sonare / accordare, e far le lettere della detta Chitarra da se stesso. / E si contengono anco nel detto libro molte sonate passeggiate, / non più da altri date in luce. / In Roma, Per Francesco Moneta. 1660. Con licenza de'Superiori. / Si vendono

p. 2 -- [guitar w/ nine frets; hand w/ finger names; = anonymous 1648 except no string numbers]

p. 3 -- Regola per imparare ad accordare la Chitarra Spagnola. [tuning]

pp. 4-7 -- Dichiaratione . . . [verbal alfabeto]

p. 8 -- Lettere, che corrispondono insieme per B Quadro . . . per B [= anonymous 1648 except E >> Z2 >> K4 (??)]

p. 9 -- MODO DI FARE IL TRILLO. . . . [trillo and repicco]

p. 10 -- [cont., dots, tagliate chords, hands as repeat signs]

+	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	V	X	Z
2	2	3	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	1	3	1	3	1	3	4	2	1	2	4	2	4
2	0	2	0	2	0	2	3	3	2	3	1	1	1	0	3	4	4	1	1	4	4	2
0	0	0	2	2	2	1	2	3	2	3	0	3	1	0	1	3	4	3	1	2	4	1
0	3	1	3	1	3	0	1	3	2	2	4	4	1	3	1	2	4	4	4	2	3	5
0	3	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	3	3	4	3	1	2	2	2	4	2	2	4

[Tagliate chords and p. 34:]

At	Ct	Dt	Et	&
0	0	4	2	5
0	0	6	4	7
0	2	6	4	7
3	3	6	3	6
3	0	4	2	5

[The K, Q, S, T, V, Z, and & chords are not used. Other chords used in the tablature:]

C3	C5	G3	G5	H2	H3	H5	H7	M2	M3	M5	M7	N2	N3	N4	N5	N7	P2	P3	P5	S3	S5	Zt
-	0	5	7	2	3	5	7	2	3	5	7	4	5	6	7	9	4	5	7	3	5	-
-	0	5	7	4	5	7	9	2	3	5	7	2	3	4	5	7	4	5	7	3	5	-
3?	2	4	6	4	5	7	9	4	5	7	9	2	3	4	5	7	2	3	5	5	7	1?
4?	3	3	5	4	5	7	9	5	6	8	10	2	3	4	5	7	2	3	5	6	8	5?
3?	5	3	5	2	3	5	7	4	5	7	9	5	6	7	8	10	2	3	5	4	6	4?

III. Notation

Tablature: Alfabeto and stroke signs are used, but there are no meter or rhythmic signs and no barlines.

Instrument: 5-course guitar

IV. Indices

Title information in brackets [ ] is editorial; information in parentheses ( ) is from the table of contents.

Index of Pieces:

	Page	Title	Key	Meter
(Sonate semplici)	p. 11	Bergamasche (diverse)	C	[4/4]
	p. 11	[Bergamasca]	G	[4/4]
	p. 11	[Bergamasca]	D	[4/4]
	p. 11	Passagagli diversi	G	[3/4]
	p. 11	[Passacaglia]	D	[3/4]
	p. 11	[Passacaglia]	C	[3/4]
	p. 12	Gagliarda (Gagliarde diverse)	D	[3/2]
	p. 12	Gagliarda	G	[3/2]
	p. 13	Villan di Spagna	D	[4/4]
	p. 13	Villan di Spagna	G	[4/4]
	p. 13	Ciaccona (Ciaccone diverse)	G	[3/4]
	p. 13	Ciaccona	F	[3/4]
	p. 14	Follia per O (Follie diverse)	g	[3/4]
	p. 14	Follia per E	d	[3/4]
	p. 15	Pavoniglia (Pavoniglie diverse)	g	[3/4]
	p. 15	Pavoniglia per E	d	[3/4]
	p. 16	Ruggiero per A (Ruggieri diversi)	G	[4/4]
	p. 16	Ruggiero per C	D	[4/4]
	p. 17	Marchetta	G	[3/4]
	p. 18	Balletto (Ballo) di Trappolino	G	[4/4]
	p. 18	To(r)tiglione	d	[4/4]
	p. 19	Napolitana	G	[4/4]
	p. 19	Canario	d	[4/4]
	p. 20	Monica per O	g	[4/4]
	p. 21	Monica per E	d	[4/4]
	p. 22	Aria di Fiorenza per A	G	[4/4]
	p. 23	Aria di Fiorenza per C	D	[4/4]
	p. 24	Spagnoletta	d	[3/4]
	p. 25	Romanesca	g	[4/4]
	p. 26	Aria N(u)ova	G	[4/4]
	p. 27	Amorosette Ninfe	G	[4/4?]
	p. 28	Corrente Francese (per O)	g	[3/4]
	p. 29	Corrente Francese (per +[?])	D	[3/4]
	p. 30	Ballo d'Ossona	F	[4/4]
	p. 31	Clorida	G	[4/4]
	p. 32	Aurilla mia	d	[4/4]
	p. 33	Girumetta per C	D	[4/4]
	p. 34	Girumetta per B	C	[4/4]
(Sonate Passeggiate)	p. 36	Pass'e mez(z)o	G	[4/4]
	p. 38	Aria di Fiorenza	G	[4/4]
	p. 40	Follia	d	[3/4]
	p. 41	Aurilla mia	d	[4/4]
	p. 42	Burubu (Burubù)	D	[4/4]
	p. 43	Aria N(u)ova	d	[4/4]
	p. 44	Spagnoletta	d	[3/4]
	p. 45	Clorida	D	[4/4]
	p. 46	Pavoniglia	g	[3/4]
	p. 47	Pavoniglia doppia	g	[3/4]
	p. 48	Altro non è l mio cuore (core)	F	[4/4]
	p. 49	Amor poi che non giovano	d	[4/4]
	p. 50	Quella bell'amor	d	[4/4]
	p. 51	Cruda, cruda tiranna	C	[4/4]
	p. 52	Balletto di Mantua	d	[3/4]
	p. 53	No no, non voi piu cortesane	d	[4/4]
	p. 54	Il Taschino	D	[4/4]
	p. 55	La bella Dionora	d	[4/4]
	p. 56	Mal Francese (Franzese) mi tormenta	d	[4/4]
[Songs]	p. 60	Anno date, e stringete . . .	C	?
	p. 61	Un pitocco d'amor chiede pietà . . .	g	?
	p. 62	Non credete a Donne mai . . .	G?	?
	[p. 63]	[Volgi gl'occhi pietosi . . .]	-	-

Index of Genres (solo guitar only):

The following chart summarizes the contents of the book by genre. Major genres are given by the form used in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed., with the forms actually used in the book in parentheses. Lesser known titles are grouped under "miscellaneous dances" and "songs." Rhythmic variations and rotte are considered part of the main work.

Genres:	total	major	minor	meter
miscellaneous songs . . . (Aria Nova, Amorosette Ninfe, Clorida, Aurilla mia, Burubu, Altro non è l mio cuore, Amor poi che non giovano, Quella bell'amor, Cruda cruda tiranna, No no non voi piu cortesane, Il Taschino, La bella Dionora, Mal Francese mi tormenta)	16	8	8	[4/4]
miscellaneous dances . . . (Marchetta, Balletto di Trappolino, Napolitana, Ballo d'Ossona, Girumetta, Balletto di Mantua)	7	6	1	5 in [4/4] and 2 in [3/4]
Pavaniglia (Pavoniglia)	4	0	4	[3/4]
Ballo del Gran Duca (Aria di Fiorenza)	3	3	0	[4/4]
Bergamasca (Bergamasche)	3	3	0	[4/4]
Folia (Follia)	3	0	3	[3/4]
Passacaglia (Passagagli)	3	3	0	[3/4]
Chaconne (Ciaccona)	2	2	0	[3/4]
Corrente (Corrente Francese)	2	1	1	[3/4]
Galliard (Gagliarda)	2	2	0	[3/2]
Monica	2	0	2	[4/4]
Ruggiero	2	2	0	[4/4]
Spagnoletta	2	0	2	[3/4]
Villano (Villan di Spagna)	2	2	0	[4/4]
Canario	1	0	1	[4/4]
Passamezzo (Pass'e mezo, Pass'e mezzo)	1	1	0	[4/4]
Romanesca	1	0	1	[4/4]
Tourdion (Tordiglione)	1	0	1	[4/4]
Totals:	57	33	24	29 in [4/4], 26 in [3/4] and 2 in [3/2]

Index of Keys Used (solo guitar only):

Keys used in the book; an * indicates that the key is only used in a passacaglia. Note that the pitch is relative and that since the guitarist was using tablature, there was no need to think in terms of traditional key signatures.

A major	0	A minor	0
B flat major	0	B flat minor	0
B major	0	B minor	0
C major	4	C minor	0
C sharp major	0	C sharp minor	0
D major	11	D minor	17
E flat major	0	E flat minor	0
E major	0	E minor	0
F major	3	F minor	0
F sharp major	0	F sharp minor	0
G major	15	G minor	7
A flat major	0	A flat minor	0

Index of Names:

MARCHETTI, Tomasso (Romano)
IL PRIMO LIBRO D'INTAVOLATURA DELLA CHITARRA SPAGNOLA. Composto, e dato in luce da Tomasso Marchetti Romano . . . / p. (1) [t.p.]

GIARDINO DI VARIE VILLANELLE NUOVE, E CURIOSE Intavolate con lettere della Chitarra Spagnola. Da Tomasso Marchetti Romano. / p. 59

MONETA, Francesco [printer]
. . . In Roma, Per Francesco Moneta. 1660. . . . / p. (1) [t.p.]

ROSSI, Gio. Battista [bookseller]
Si vendono da Gio. Battista Rossi Milanese in Navona. / p. (1) [t.p.]

V. Bibliography

Boye, Gary R. "Giovanni Battista Granata and the Development of Printed Guitar Music in Seventeenth-Century Italy" (diss., Duke Univeristy, 1995).

Boye, Gary R. "Performing Seventeenth-Century Italian Guitar Music: the Question of an Appropriate Stringing" in Performance on Lute, Guitar and Vihuela: Historical Practice and Modern Interpretation, ed. V.A. Coelho (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Boye, Gary R. "The Case of the Purloined Letter Tablature: The 17th-Century Guitar Books of Foriano Pico and Pietro Millioni." Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 11:1 (2005).

Hudson, Richard. Passacaglio and Ciaccona: From Guitar Music to Italian Keyboard Variations in the 17th Century (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1981).

Répertoire international des sources musicales: Einzeldrucke vor 1800. RISM A/I [M 487 and RISM B/VI/2 p. 535

Tyler, James, and Paul Sparks. The Guitar and Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Classical Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002): 56.

Weidlich, Joseph. "Battuto Performance Practice in Early Italian Guitar Music." Journal of the Lute Society of America 11 (1978): 63-86.

VI. Exemplars

F-Pn = France: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département de la Musique (visited in 1992)

Condition: Very thin pages; some bleeding and stains but fairly legible. Some smudged letters; gold edges on pages

Binding: Red with gold trim hard cover (front cover torn loose); on spine in gold letters: "MARCH/ ETTI/ CHITARRA/SPAGN./ROMA/1660" [blue ribbon page marker added]

Manuscript additions:
Cover -- white tape: "INV. RéSERVE /Vm8 u.3" [w/ red tape circle (?)]; white tape, ink: "Ne pas communiquer / Donner à la place / [Vmd.3445"]
1 colored folio and 3 folios added in front
f. 3v -- pencil: "(cartes faites) / (Réserve) /V.2677 / A / [red stamp: c encircled] / Rés Vm8 u.3"

p. 1 -- red stamp: "BIBLIOTHEQUE IMPERIALE IMPRIMES"; red stamp: "ACQUISITION No [ink:] 41913" [facsimile of Bn copy]
p. 17 -- red stamp: "BIBLIOTHEQUE IMPERIALE IMPRIMES" [and p. 63]

3 added folios and one colored folio at end

I-Bc = Italy: Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale G. B. Martini (visited in 1991-1992)

Condition: Uneven page cut top and bottom; pages yellowed with some mildew damage, especially in A and B fascicles. Pages of varying thicknesses. Several apparently stray dots make rhythmic reading somewhat difficult.

Binding: Brown/yellow imitation leather with black spine and corners [recent]; hard cover, very sturdy.

Manuscript additions:
Cover -- blue tape: "AA411"
1 added page front, pencil: "AA411"

p. (1) -- top left, ink: "AA411"; blue stamp: "[BIBLIOTECA NEL] LICEO MUSICALE DI BOLOGNA"
p. 60 -- black stamp: "LICEO MUSICALE G.B. MARTINI BIBLIOTECA BOLOGNA" (and pp. 61 and 63)

1 added page back

A copy listed in RISM at I-Rsc = Italy: Rome, Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Biblioteca Musicale Governativa (visited in 1992) is actually anonymous 1648.

I-Vc = Italy: Venezia, Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Biblioteca

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