Nicholas Erneston Music Library

I. Overview

The contents equal the first three books of Foscarini as seen in Foscarini 1640, but many of the dedications and titles are different and were

Title: Il primo, seco[n]do, e terzo libro della chitarra spagnola (s.l.:, s.n., n.d.).

Description:
(6) + 80 pp. [preface in movable type; music engraved]
188 pieces
Foliation: none
Page Size -- I-Bc [copy 1]: 18.5 cm. (width) X 23.8 cm.
Plate Size -- I-Bc: 14.5 cm. X 19.4 cm.
Page size -- I-Bc [copy 2]: 18.4 cm. (width) X 25.5 cm.
Plate Size -- I-Bc: 14.5 cm. X 19.4 cm.
Page Size -- F-Pn: c18.3 cm. (width) X 24.2 cm.
Plate Size -- F-Pn: 15.1 cm. X 20.1 cm.

II. Prefatory Material

f. 1 -- blank [seems original]

f. 2r -- [t.p.; in rectangular border:] IL PRIMO SECO[N]DO, E TERZO LIBRO DELLA CHITARRA SPAGNOLA Nelli quali si contengono tutte le sonate ordinarie semplici & passeggiate, Con una nuova inventione di passacalli Spagnoli variati Ciacone Follie, Zarabande, Arie diverse Toccate musicali, Balletti, Corre[n]ti Volte, Gagliarde, Alemande con alcune sonate picicate al modo di leuto con le sue regole per imparare à sonarle facilissimamente. Autore L'ACADEMICO CALIGINOSO DETTO IL FURIOSO. Novamente composto, e datto in luce.

[ICON: 4 musical scenes with cherubs(?) in each corner: left top, winged cherub playing a violin with another holding a book (illegible) in front of him; right top, 3 cherubs, one playing a lute (5 visible strings), 1 a cornet, another resting his arm on an opened book (illegible); lower right, 1 cherub playing a guitar (little detail), 1 holding a book; lower left, 2 cherubs: cornettist/harpist. In lower panel: theorbo, cello, lute, violin to winds surmounted by the skull (of a bull?) with horns. Right panel: same skull with archlute, lute, guitar (6 visible strings), violin w/ bow, 2 horns (cornet?). Shield below title: 4 quadrants: 2 w/ sailing ship and 2 w/ faces (cherubs?) and what appear to be a type of onion.]

f. 2v -- blank

f. 3r -- portrait [Foscarini? = Foscarini 1640; see facsimile]

f. 3v -- blank

f. 4r -- A'I LETTORI . . . [ff. 4-6v = Foscarini 1640 preface; see facsimile]

p. 1 -- [alfabeto:]

 

 

[Other chords used in the tablature:]

III. Notation

Tablature: Pages 2-14: Alfabeto and stroke signs with triple meter signs only; rhythm signs in some but not all pieces; no barlines. Pages 15-78: Alfabeto with Italian tablature, meter and rhythm signs, but only some with 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 (all for solo guitar except p. 70 for two guitars):

Notes:
1. For two guitars tuned a fifth apart. 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:

Barbi, Andrea
. . . Al m.to Ill.re Sig. Andrea Barbi P[ad]ron Oss.mo / p. 18

Bonetto, Gio. Battista
Gagliarda detta la Bonetta All'Illustre S.Gio:Batta Bonetto / p. 25

Boschetti, Biasio
Balletto detto il favorito All Ill.re Sig.r BIASIO Boschetti / p. 64

Brancaleone, Giulio Francesco
Corrente concertata à doi Chitarre Al Molt' Ill.re Sig.r Il S.r

Canossa, Paolo
Passacalli passeggiati sopra l'E All Ill.mo S.r Conti Paolo Canossa / p. 32

Capponi, Gio. Franco
Gagliarda detta la Crudele Al m. Ill. S. Il. S. Gio. Fran.co Capponi / p. 58

Felli, Gio. Marco
Balletto il fedel Amante All'Ill.i S.ri Gio: Marco, e Georgio Felli [?] Gutbettr. / p. 35

Franchi, Andrea
Capriccio 3.a Sopra il passacaglio passeggiato del P. Dedicato All'Illustre Sig.r Andrea Franchi / p. 78

Furlieger, Gio. Filippo
Toccata Seco[n]da Musicale All.re S. Gio. Filippo Furlieger / p. 31

Ghirardira, Bernino
Corrente detta la Gentile All'Illustriss. S.r Marchese Bern.no Ghirardira [-na?] / p. 75

Gutbettr [?], Georgio Felli
Balletto il fedel Amante All'Ill.i S.ri Gio: Marco, e Georgio Felli [?] Gutbettr. / p. 35

Lago, Gio. Batista
Capriccio sopra la Ciacona Al Ill.re Sig.r Gio: Batista Z[L?]ago P[ad]ron Oss.mo / p. 28

Marogna, Marcello
. . . Al Molto Ill.re S.r Marcello Marogna P[ad]ron Oss.mo / p. 15

Mattucci, Lutio
. . . Al m. Ill.r Sig.r Il Sig. Lutio Mattucci / p. 51

Minelli, Christoforo
Alemanda All Ill.o Sig.r Christoforo Minelli / p. 40

Montanari, Peolo
. . . Al Molto Ill.re Ecc.mo Sig. Il Sig. Paolo Montanari / p. 44

Oldradi, Pietro Antonio
Capricio sopra il passacaglio de L All'Ill.re Sig. Pietro Antonio Oldradi / p. 71

Ottolini, Giovanni
Corrente detta l'Ottolina All'Illustre S. Giovanni Ottolini / p. 37

Pompeo, Gio. Paolo
Tasteggiata Musicale All Ill.mo Sig.r et P[adr]on Col.mo Il S. Conte Gio. Paolo Pompeo / p. 48

Quistsi, Marc'Antonio
Tasteggio Musicale All'Illustriss. Sig. Conte Marc'Antonio Quis[t?]si / p. 38

Ragani
. . . Al . . . Ragani [spelling variant of Raccagni?] / p. 54

Schgtofer [sic!], Marco
Folias sopra l'O, con parti variate. All Ill.s Sig.r Marco Schgtofer Scolaro Carissimo / p. 23

Segala, Martino
Corrente detta la Gratiosa All'Illustre S. Martino Segala / p. 36

Tirabosco, Giovanni
[NO title on top] Al Ill.re Sig.r il Sig.r Giovanni Tirabosco / p. 47

Turco, Marc'Antonio
Toccata Musical detta la TURCA All'Illustriss. Sig.r Mar'Antonio TURCO / p. 20

V. Bibliography

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

________. "Giovanni Paolo Foscarini and His Three Styles for the Guitar" Lute Society Quarterly XXX, no. 4 (November 1995): 5-9.

________. "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).

BUC (The British Union Catalog), Edith B. Schnapper. The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music Printed before the Year 1801: A Record of the Holdings of Over One Hundred Libraries throughout the British Isles. London: Butterworths, 1957.

Danner, Peter. "Giovanni Paolo Foscarini and His 'Nuova Inventione.'" Journal of the Lute Society of America VII (1974): 4-18.

________. "Communications." Journal of the Lute Society of America XI (1978): 101.

Eisenhardt, Lex. "Bourdons as Usual." Lute Society Journal (UK) XLVII (2007): 1-37.

________. "Dissonance and Battuto, A Hidden Practice in the Performance of Seventeenth-Century Guitar Music?" Lute Society Journal (UK) XLVII (2007): 38-54.

Goy, François-Pierre. "Three Versions of Pierre Gaultier's Bataille (1626, 1638, 1650)." Journal of the Lute Society of America XLII-XLIII, Essays in Celebration of Arthur J. Ness's 75th Birthday, Part II (2009-2010): 1-89.

Hall, Monica. "Dissonance in the Guitar Music of Francesco Corbetta." Lute Society Journal (UK) XLVII (2007): 55-80.

________. "Was Foscarini also Weird? Baroque Guitar Tablature for the Perplexed." Lute Society Journal (UK) XLIX (2009): 49-69.

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

Paoloni, Paol. "Mastri 'liutari' e 'chitarrari' nella Macerata del XVII secolo." in Le Marche Centro-Meridionali fino al Sec. XVIII: Nuove Ricerche (Macerata: Centro di Studi Storici Maceratesi, 2015): 431-467.

Répertoire international des sources musicales: Einzeldrucke vor 1800. RISM A/I [F 1538 and [FF 1538

Strizich, Robert. "L'accompagnamento di basso continuo sulla chitarra barocca, I." Il Fronimo: Rivista trimestrale di chitarra e liuto 9, no. 34 (January 1981): 15-26.

________. "L'accompagnamento di basso continuo sulla chitarra barocca, II." Il Fronimo: Rivista trimestrale di chitarra e liuto 9, no. 35 (April 1981): 8-27.

Tyler, James, and Paul Sparks. The Guitar and Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Classical Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002): 63-66, 88, 175-176, 178, 180-181.

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

VI. Exemplars

D-B [formerly D-ddr-Bds] = Germany: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung

Not yet visited.

F-Pn = France: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département

Condition: very dark plate marks; some bleeding and smudging

Binding: recent dark brown hard cover; on spine in gold letters on red: "FOSCARINI -- I QUATRO LIBRI DELLA CHITARRA SPAGNOLA"

Manuscript additions:
Cover -- white tape: "INV. RÈSERVE Vm 8u2"
1 added folio at front
+f. 1r -- pencil: "[Rés. Vm8 u.2"
red stamp: "BIBLIOTHEQUE IMPERIALE IMPR." [and f. 1r, 2r, 3r. . .pp. 56, 64]
[f. 1r -- engraved: "I QUATRO LIBRI DELLA CHITARRA SPAGNOLA . . . "]
f. 1v -- blank
f. 2r -- engraved portrait
f. 2v -- blank
f. 3r -- A'I LETTORI [through f. 5v = Foscarini 1640]

[pp. 1-78 = 1.o-3.o libri; then TAVOLA (NO 4.o) as in I-Bc]

1 added folio at back [w/ red stamp again]

GB-Lbl = Great Britain: London, The British Library (visited in 1992)

This copy, listed in RISM, is actually Foscarini 1632.

I-Bc = Italy: Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale G. B. Martini (visited in 1991-1992) [copy 1]

Condition: much mildew damage; darkened plate imprint but very legible (except p. 57: very light and blurry); dog-earred and wrinkled pages but few tears

Binding: grey cardboard; spine with three ridges [original?]

Manuscript additions:
Cover -- tape: "V34 / 1 vol."; ink: "Accademico Caliginoso / detto il Furioso / 1.o, 2.o, e 3.o libro della Chitarra Spagnuola"; ink, bottom: "Libro unico (Ve n'ha un altro esemplare sotto il #[?] precedente" [see below]
Spine -- blue tape: "V.34"
Inside Cover -- [illegible; name?]

f. 2r -- [upper coat of arms(?) REMOVED (cut out)] older black stamp: "ARCHIVIO MUSICALE NEL LICEO DI BOLOGNA"

p. 18 -- hand? stave 1: first A and B filled in [original too light?]; st. 1: 1st stroke erased for downstroke [only real difference with Foscarini 1640]; st. 2: first A filled in [poor print?]
p. 24 -- illegible note in border: "Impre . . ." [?]
p. 48 -- more notes filled in by hand
p. (80) -- very blurred black stamp: "BIBLIOGRAFICO BOLOGNA . . ."

I-Bc = Italy: Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale G. B. Martini (visited in 1991-1992) [copy 2]

N.B.: There is also at I-Bc a book with the title page of "I quattro libri" [Foscarini 1632] but the contents are otherwise exactly equal to Foscarini 1630 described above [pieces listed as being from the fourth book in Foscarini 1640 are NOT present]. Here follows an abbreviated description:

Condition: Plate area less dark than Foscarini 1630; less ragged pages and overall in better condition

Binding: white cardboard with taped spine; the first and second fascicles are very loosely bound (up to A'I LETTORI) and seem to be tied more to the cover (not original?) than the tightly-bound remaining portion (music). [Perhaps the title page and preface of a copy of I 4.o libri were tied to a copy of Foscarini 1630?? But note the difference in page sizes.]

Manuscript additions:
1 blank folio added at front
f. 1r -- I QUATRO LIBRI / DELLA / CHITARRA SP. . . [= Foscarini 1630 but icon. differences: bottom shield (but with same initials) with knight's helmet on top supported by 2 cherubs (of noticeably different style than the others); top center: same helmet with a crown -- shield below apparently filled in by hand (w/ 2 crossbars diagonlly and a shaded portion on the right); remainder = 3.o book]
Cover -- blue ink: "V33 / Academica Caliginoso / detto il Furioso / I quattro libri della Chitarra Spagnola"; lower left: "Libro unico"
Spine -- blue tape: "V33"
Inside Cover -- pencil: "autore: Foscarini, Gio. Paolo / cfr. V34" [modern]

+f. 1r -- "no.2479"
f. 1r -- black stamp: "ARCHIVIO MUSICALE NEL LICEO DI BOLOGNA"
p. (5) -- bottom: [illegible and:] d g c e a 1 2 3 4 5 [tuning??]

[folios 1-46 numbered by hand in pencil; modern]