Nicholas Erneston Music Library

I. Overview

This edition equals pp. 17-44 of Millioni/Monte 1678, also printed by Zini. The book begins with a short section of songs (entitled "Canzonette del Vespesiano") with text only

Title: Novissime canzonette musicali de diversi auttori . . . (Venetia: il Zini, 1678).

Description:
48pp. in movable type
25 pieces [+ 18 songs]
Foliation: ABC (8 ff. each)
Page Size -- I-Rsc: 14.9 cm. (width) X 9.6 cm.

II. Prefatory Material

p. (1) -- NOVISSIME CANZONETTE MUSICALI DE DIVERSI AUTTORI. IN VENETIA, Per il Zini. 1678. Con Licenza de'Superiori."

p. (2) -- [blank]

[Alfabeto (from Millioni/Monte 1678):]

III. Notation

Tablature: Alfabeto and stroke signs only; no meter or rhythm signs, or barlines. Very bad stroke alignment--even worse than Millioni/Monte 1678. Songs on pp. 3-16: with text only.

Instrument: 5-course guitar

IV. Indices

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

Index of Pieces:

Notes:
1. This piece should have come after the Ballo del Monte Verde on p. 21. 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.

 

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.

Index of Names:

ZINI, [G]iacomo
. . . IN VENETIA, Per il Zini. 1678. / 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).

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

Tyler, James, and Paul Sparks. The Guitar and Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Classical Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002): 87.

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

VI. Exemplars

I-Rsc = Italy: Roma, Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Biblioteca Musicale Governativa (visited in 1992)

Condition: Darkened pages with very ragged corners; some pages partially missing (e.g., pp. 15-16).

Binding: Recent multi-colored hardback.

Manuscript additions:
Spine -- white tape w/ blue: "32"; white tape w/ red: "REGIA ACCADEMIA DI SANTA CECILIA BIBLIOTECA A.C.S. (ink:) 1 A.37"
Inside front cover – white tape w/ red: "REGIA ACCADEMIA DI SANTA CECILIA BIBLIOTECA C.S.01 A 20" with purple stamp: "ANNULATO"; white tape w/ blue: "R. BIBLIOTECA MUSICALE GOVERNATIVA DI S. CECILIA "

1 added folio at front

p. 3 -- "Musica del Pallassicius [?] Carlo . . ." faded pencil
p. 9 -- [blurred purple stamp and:] "P.a. Bussaui [?] Siacionu [?] / Autorio J. Sartorio 1678 Gasparo" pencil
"FINE" old ink

1 added folio at back

inside back cover -- faded note in pencil [illegible]