Nicholas Erneston Music Library

I. Overview

Like Millioni 1627b, much of this book is made up of pieces from Millioni 1627a with ornamental strums, or repicchi, added to them.

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

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

II. Prefatory Material

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

p. (2) -- AL MOLTO ILLUSTRE, ET MOLTO REVERENDO SIGNORE, & Padron mio osservandissimo IL SIGNOR LODOVICO ARAGAZIO. [dedication signed 22 January 1627]

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

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 . . ." ll.6-14 which explain his notation of the repicco]

p. 6 -- váranno doi mano . . . [= Millioni 1627a until second paragraph: "Se alcuna persona volesse imparar'a sonare ogni sorte di sonate con repicchi . . ." which explains the repicco.]

p. 7 -- giù in questa maniera . . . [finishes discussion of the Millioni 1627a]

p. 8 -- Quando è accordata . . . [= Millioni 1627a]

III. Notation

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

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. 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.

 

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:

ARAGAZIO, Lodovico [patron]
AL MOLTO ILLUSTRE, ET MOLTO REVERENDO SIGNORE, & Padron osservandissimo

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

MILLIONI, Pietro [composer]
PRIMA IMPRESSIONE DEL QUINTO LIBRO D'INTAVOLATURA DI CHITARRA SPAGNOLA. 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 2840

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

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

Condition: some mildew and smudge marks (especially p. [67]) but page edges very good. Thick paper with gold edges.

Binding: recent marbled hard-cover with red/black/brown borders like Millioni 1627a; white spine, black panel with gold letters: "MILIONI / CHITARA / SPAGNUOL / 5"

Manuscript additions:
Cover -- white tape: "AA 345" over ink on white spine: "AA345"
Spine -- blue tape: "AA 344"

1 folio added at front
+f. 1r -- "5307" ink, crossed out
p. (1) -- black stamp: "ARCHIVIO MUSICALE NEL LICEO DI BOLOGNA"

misnumbered pages: 66 69 [67] 68

p. 55 -- l.3, ch.2: F with d-d-u-d erased [?] for d-d-u [possibly just light print??]

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