Millioni 1627a

Millioni, Pietro

Quarta impressione
del primo, secondo, et terzo libro d'intavolatura (1627)

I. Overview

This is the first of three related books by Millioni from 1627. Millioni 1627b and 1627c are basically the same books with additional right-hand strums added, making these books some of the best sources for the exact use of these ornaments.

Title: Quarta impressione del primo, secondo, et terzo libro d'intavolatura. (Rome: Guglielmo Facciotti, 1627).

Description:
62 pp. in movable type
76 pieces
Foliation: none
Page Size -- I-Bc: c15.8 cm. (width) X 10.3 cm.; F-Pn: 15.8 cm. (width) X 10.1 cm.

II. Prefatory Material

p. (1) -- QUARTA IMPRESSIONE DEL PRIMO, SECONDO, ET TERZO LIBRO D'INTAVOLATURA. . . . [title page]

p. (2) -- [blank]

p. 3 -- DICHIARATIONE. Volendo dunque da se medesimo . . . [explanation of tablature and the alfabeto; with fingerings]

p. 4 -- [alfabeto (with finger dots)]:

+AAtBBtCC5DDtEFGG3G5HH2H3H5I
2203300000235712350
2002200220235734572
0000022212124634572
0331133103013534572
0330325001013512350

 

KK2K4K5LMM2M3M5NN2N3N5OPP2P5
12453123534571347
34671123512350347
34670345712350125
23563456812353125
12453345745683125

[The Bt and N2 chords are not used.]

[Other chords used in the tablature:]

P3
5
5
3
3
3

p. 5 -- Quando sarà posta bene . . . [alfabetoalfabeto tagliato]

p. 6 -- . . . lettere. Quando si . . . [left hand, trillorepicco]

p. 7 -- Modo di accordare . . . [tuning: possibly upper octave fifth course?]

p. 8 -- Modo di accordare . . . [tuning in tablature]

p. 9 -- Tavola delle lettere corrispondenti con le quali ciascuno se ne puol servire in trasmutar sonare da una lettera all'altra . . . [corrispondence chart]

III. Notation

Tablature: Alfabeto and stroke signs only; no meter or rhythm signs, or barlines.

Instrument: 5-course guitar

IV. Indices

Title information in brackets [ ] is editorial;

Index of Pieces (all solo guitar):

PageTitleKeyMeterReprinted in:
p. 10Passacaglij diversiG[3/4] 
p. 10[Passacaglia]C[3/4] 
p. 10[Passacaglia]D[3/4] 
p. 10[Passacaglia]a[3/4] 
p. 10[Passacaglia]d[3/4] 
p. 10[Passacaglia]E[3/4] 
p. 11[Passacaglia]F[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 43)
p. 11[Passacaglia]Bb[3/4] 
p. 11[Passacaglia]Eb[3/4] 
p. 11[Passacaglia]g[3/4] 
p. 11[Passacaglia]f[3/4] 
p. 11[Passacaglia]G[3/4] 
p. 12Mutanze di Passacaglijg[3/4] 
p. 13Ciacconi diverseG[3/4] 
p. 13[Ciaccone]C[3/4] 
p. 13[Ciaccone]D[3/4] 
p. 13[Ciaccone]E[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 40)
p. 13[Ciaccone]F[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 62)
p. 13[Ciaccone]A[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 39)
p. 14Mutanze di Caccione (Ciaccone)G[3/4] 
p. 14[Mutanze di Ciaccone]F[3/4] 
p. 15Bergamasche (Bergamasca per A e per C)G[4/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 11) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 11) repicchiNote 1
p. 15[Bergamasca]D[4/4] 
p. 16FavoritaBb[4/4] 
p. 16Ballo del fioreg[4/4] 
p. 17Folias (per A)G[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 13, 14) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 13, 14) repicchi
p. 17Folias (per B)C[3/4] 
p. 18Folias con mutanza (per G3)G[3/4] 
p. 18Folias (per E)d[3/4] 
p. 19Pavaniglia (per O)g[4/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 15, 16) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 15, 16) repicchi
p. 19Pavaniglia (per B)C[4/4] 
p. 20Pavaniglia (per P3)g[4/4] 
p. 20Pavaniglia (per E)d[4/4] 
p. 21Gagliarda (per A)G[3/2]Millioni 1627b (p. 18) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 18) repicchi
p. 22Gagliarda con mutanza (per G3)G[3/2] 
p. 23Gagliarda (per B)C[3/2] 
p. 24Ruggiero (per A)G[4/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 21) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 21) repicchi
p. 25Ruggiero con mutanza (per G3)G[4/4] 
p. 26Ruggiero (per B)C[4/4] 
p. 27Tenor di Napoli (per A)G[4/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 23, 24) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 23, 24) repicchi
p. 28Tenor di Napoli con mutanza (per G3)G[4/4] 
p. 29Tenor di Napoli (per B)C[4/4] 
p. 30Balletto (Baletto) di Madamad[4/4?] 
p. 31CalataD[3/4] 
p. 32Quest' (Questi) è quel locog[4/4?]with ripresa
p. 33Romonesca (Romanesca per H)g[4/4] 
p. 34Romonesca (Romanesca) con mutanza (per N3)g[4/4] 
p. 35Pass'e mezzo (per A)G[4/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 27) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 27) repicchi
p. 36Pass'e mezzo con mutanze (per G3)G[4/4] 
p. 37Pass'e mezzo (per B)C[4/4] 
p. 38Fantinellag[4/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 33) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 33) repicchi
p. 39Marchetta (per A)G[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 37) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 37) repicchi
p. 39CiacconaG[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 37) and Millioni 1627c (p. 37)
p. 40Marchetta con Mutanza (per G3)G[3/4] 
p. 40CiacconaG[3/4]= p. 13
p. 41Marchetta (per B)C[3/4] 
p. 41CiacconaC[3/4]= p. 13
p. 42Allegrezza d'AmoreD[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 52) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 52) repicchi
p. 43Monicha (per O)g[4/4]with ripresa; Millioni 1627b (p. 35) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 35) repicchi
p. 44Spagnoletta (per O)g[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 45, 46) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 45, 46) repicchi
p. 45Amorosette Ninfed?[4/4?] 
p. 46Pass' e mezzo (per C)Bb[4/4] 
p. 48Aria Nuova (Nova per H)g[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 41, 42) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 41, 42) repicchi
p. 48Passacagliod[3/4]= p. 10
p. 49Aria Nova con mutanze (per N3)g[3/4] 
p. 49PassacaglioG[3/4]= p. 11
p. 50Aria di Fiorenza (per A)G[4/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 47, 48) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 47, 48) repicchi
p. 51--Rotta della dett'Aria di FiorenzaG[3/4] 
p. 52Aria di Fiorenza con mutanza (per G3)G[4/4] 
p. 53Aria di Fiorenza (per B)C[4/4] 
p. 54Brando di MaltaD[3/2?]Millioni 1627b (p. 54) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 54) repicchi
p. 54Vilan di SpagnaD[4/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 12) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 12) repicchi
p. 55Sicilianaa[4/4]with ritornello
p. 56Pass'e mezzo (per I)A[4/4] 
p. 58BarrieraD[4/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 70-72) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 70-72) repicchi
p. 61Gagliarda di quattro tempi doppo la BarrieraD[3/2]Millioni 1627b (p. 73-74) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 73-74) repicchi
p. 62Canariod[3/4]Millioni 1627b (p. 74) with trilli and Millioni 1627c (p. 74) repicchi

Notes:

1. Trilli and repicchi are ornamental strums that divide the normal rhythm into smaller groups. Return to text

Index of Genres:

The following chart summarizes the solo guitar 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:totalmajorminormeter
Passacaglia (Passacaglij, Passacaglio)1596[3/4]
Chaconne (Ciaccona, Ciacconi)11110[3/4]
miscellaneous dances . . . (Tenor di Napoli, Balletto di Madama, Marchetta)7614 in [4/4], and 3 in [3/4]
miscellaneous songs . . . (Quest'è quel loco, Allegrezza d'Amore, Amorosette Ninfe, Aria Nuova, Aria Nova)5143 in [3/4], and 2 in [4/4]
Passamezzo (Pass'e mezzo)550[4/4]
Folia (Folias)431[3/4]
Galliard (Gagliarda)440[3/2]
Pavaniglia413[4/4]
Ballo del Gran Duca (Aria di Fiorenza)330[4/4]
Romanesca (Ballo del Fiore, Romonesca)303[4/4]
Ruggiero330[4/4]
Bergamasca (Bergamasche)220[4/4]
Barriera110[4/4]
Brando110[3/2?]
Calata110[3/4]
Canario101[4/4]
Fantinella101[4/4]
Favorita110[4/4]
Monica (Monicha)101[4/4]
Siciliana101[4/4]
Spagnoletta101[3/4]
Villano (Vilan di Spagna)110[4/4]
Totals:765323[3/4] = 38
[4/4] = 33
[3/2] = 5

 

Index of Keys Used:

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 major2 A minor2
B flat major3 B flat minor0
B major0 B minor0
C major11 C minor0
C sharp major0 C sharp minor0
D major9 D minor7
E flat major1* E flat minor0
E major2 E minor0
F major3 F minor1*
F sharp major0 F sharp minor0
G major22 G minor18
A flat major0 A flat minor0

 

Index of Names:

FACCIOTTI, Guglielmo [printer]
IN ROMA, Per Guglielmo Facciotti. 1627 . . . / p. (1)

MILLIONI, Pietro [composer]
QUARTA IMPRESSIONE DEL PRIMO, SECONDO, ET TERZO LIBRO D'INTAVOLATURA. DI PIETRO MILLIONI . . . / p. (1)

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 2834

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

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: darkly-stained pages at beginning and others dark; but all legible; worn page edges

Binding: recent hard cover with red/blue/green designs

Manuscript additions:
Cover -- white tape: "INVENTAIRE" [black ink]; "RESERVE" [blue ink on top of other]; "Vm8 u.4" ink; white tape: "Vm"
1 folio added at front

p. (1) signed: "[illegible (Brossard?)] . . . no.640"; red stamp: "BIBLIOTHEQUE ROYALE I"; ink: "Rés. Vm8 u4"

p. 4 -- all chords re-written in French tablature [partially fingered]:

+AAtBBtCC5DDtEFGG3G5HH2H3H5I
addadcfaababcbbcdfa
addbbddbadabcbdefhc
aaaaacccbcbcecdefhc
caaccaaccacdfddefhc
ccaddaaaaacdfdbcdfa

 

KK2K4K5LMM2M3M5NN2N3N5OPP2P5
b-cfdddfhef-gdbcf
c-dgdeegibc-ddbcf
d-ehaddfibc-dabcf
d-ehbbbdfbc-dadeh
b-cfdbbdfde-fbdeh

[K2, N3 missing; M2 incorrect--should be M]

[Additional chord added on p. 4, not labelled (= F major w/ A not C on the 5th course)]:

-
b
b
c
d
a

[Another chord added on p. 9 (= Eb major)]

-Ma
bg
be
ca
df
ag


p. 21 -- red stamp: "BIBLIOTHEQUE ROYALE I"
p. 62 -- red stamp: "BIBLIOTHEQUE ROYALE I"
3 folios added at end

 

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

Condition: thin, water-damaged pages but no tears; corners very good. Very legible; smudges: reddish/brown, especially pp. 52-53

Binding: recent marbled hard-cover with red/black/brown borders; white spine with gold design and "MILIONI / CHITARR / SPAGNUO /"

Manuscript additions:
Cover -- blue tape: "AA 343"
Spine -- blue tape: "AA 343"
1 folio added at front; 5 at the end [original??]
+f. 1r: "NN-5305" in ink, crossed out

p. (1) -- ink: "Ad usum D. Dominici . . . Januarij . . . Can. Reg.is . . . ar.is, 1691" [partially obscurred by decoration and stamp]
black stamp: "ARCHIVIO MUSICALE NEL LICEO DI BOLOGNA"

p. 64 -- black stamp: "LICEO MUSICALE G.B. MARTINI BIBLIOTECA BOLOGNA"


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