Nicholas Erneston Music Library

I. Overview

Much of this book is made up of pieces from Millioni 1627a with ornamental strums, or trilli, added to them. There are also new pieces in different keys: there are 41 new pieces, 35 pieces from the earlier work with added trilli, and 9 pieces reprinted exactly.

Title: Seconda impressione del quarto libro d'intavolatura di chitarra spagnola. (Rome: Guglielmo Facciotti, 1627).

Description:
80 pp. in movable type
85 pieces
Foliation: (A)BCDE [8 ff.. each]
Page Size -- I-Bc: 16.2 cm. (width) X 10.2 cm.; GB-Lbl: 15.7 cm. (width) X 10 cm.

II. Prefatory Material

p. (1) -- SECONDA IMPRESSIONE DEL QUARTO LIBRO D'INTAVOLATURA DI CHITARRA SPAGNOLA. . . . [title page]

p. (2) -- [blank]

p. 3 -- DICHIARATIONE. Volendo dunque da se medesimo . . . [contents = Millioni 1627a]

p. 4 -- [alfabeto]

 

[The Bt and K chords are not used. Other chords used in the tablature:]

p. 5 -- Quando sarà posta bene . . . [= Millioni 1627a until "Quando si trovaranno delle sonate intavolate con Trilli . . ." ll.6-14 which explain his notation of the trillo]

p. 6 -- -gna anco allongare . . . [= Millioni 1627a until second paragraph: "Se alcuna persona volesse imparare a sonare tutte le sonate có trilli . . ." which explains the rhythmic value of the trillo.]

p. 7 -- questo modo . . . [finishes discussion of the trillo. Paragraphs 2 and 3 = Millioni 1627a]

p. 8 -- Quando è accordata . . . [= Millioni 1627a (typo on accordata in title of last stave]

III. Notation

Tablature: Alfabeto and stroke signs only; no meter or rhythm signs, or barlines. A right-hand trill is indicated as "t" at the level of strokes. Its value is value: 1 quarter note = 4 trilli.

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. Trilli 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.

 

 

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:

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

MILLIONI, Pietro [composer]
SECONDA IMPRESSIONE DEL QUARTO LIBRO D'INTAVOLATURA DI CHITARRA SPAGNOLA. . . . Composto, e dato in luce dal medesimo 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 2838

Tyler, James, and Paul Sparks. The Guitar and Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Classical Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002): 86.

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

VI. Exemplars

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

Condition: clean page edges with few stains or damage; some crooked printing but very legible

Binding: recent marroon hard-cover with gold trim; gold letters on spine: "P.MILLIONI. / SECONDA IMPRESSIONE DEL QUARTO / LIBRO D'INTAVOLATURA. ROMA. 1627."

Manuscript additions:
Spine: brown tape: "k.4" and "a9"
2 folios added at front

p. (1) -- "k.4.a.9" pencil
p. (2) -- red stamp: "BRITISH MUSEUM"
p. 78 -- red stamp: "BRITISH MUSEUM 16 JL 1901"
p. (80) -- red stamp: "BRITISH MUSEUM 16 JL 1901"

2 folios added at back

**Not listed in RISM.

 

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

Condition: pages darkened and stained but legible; fairly good corners and clean page edges; original pages with gold edges; visible especially from the bottom

Binding: recent marbled hard-cover with red/black/brown borders like Millioni 1627a; black band with gold letters on spine: "MILIONI / CHITARRA / SPAGNOL / 4"

Manuscript additions:
Cover -- blue tape: "AA 344"
Spine -- blue tape: "AA 344"
1 folio added at front; 4 at the end

p. (1) -- black stamp: "ARCHIVIO MUSICALE NEL LICEO DI BOLOGNA"
p. (80) -- black stamp: "LICEO MUSICALE G.B. MARTINI BIBLIOTECA BOLOGNA"