Nicholas Erneston Music Library

I. Overview

This book, at the I-Bc, contains both a printed preface and manuscript music.

Title: Ricreationi armoniche overo toccate di chitarriglia . . . (n.d. [after 1675 and before 1682?]).

Description:
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II. Prefatory Material

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III. Notation

Tablature: WORKING . . . .

IV. Indices

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

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Index of Pieces:

Notes:

1. 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.

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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.

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Index of Names:

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).

Répertoire international des sources musicales: Einzeldrucke vor 1800. RISM A/I [P 1560

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

VI. Exemplars

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

Condition: 12 sheets of MS loose; not bound with printed.

Binding: Off-white cardboard [original?].

Manuscript additions:
Spine -- blue tape: "BB135"
Cover -- ink: "BB135 / Pesori Stefano / Ricreazione Armoniche"
f1r -- blue stamp: BIBLIOTECA DEL LICEO MUSICALE DI BOLOGNA"; [ink in margins; pen: "u67/469" ??]

Inside back cover -- ink: "[?]enano Caddre lola[??] 1682" [mostly illegible]