Nicholas Erneston Music Library

I. Overview

This book was plagiarized in both Marchetti 1665 and Pico 16[9]8 (not the other way around, as is usually stated). It is quite legible, in comparison to the other copies, and should be regarded as a reprint of an earlier (now lost)

Title: Nuova corona d'intavolatura di chitarra spagnola, novamente ristampato secondo il vero originale di Pietro Millioni (Rome: heirs of Mancini, 1661).

Description:
64 pp. in movable type
58 pieces (+ 6 songs)
Foliation: ABCD (8 ff. each)
Page Size -- I-Bc: 15.2 cm. (width) X 9.6 cm.

II. Prefatory Material

p. (1) -- NUOVA CORONA / D'INTAVOLATURA / DI CHITARRA SPAGNOLA / Novamente ristampato secondo il vero originale di / PIETRO MILLIONI. / Con alcune sonate, e passeggiate nuove del istesso Autore non / più poste alla stampa, tutte vaghe, e curiose, trà le quali / vi s'è anco aggiunto la Siciliana, e le Letanie de'Santi / con l'intavolatura messe spezzatamente. / In Roma per l'Herede del Mancini 1661. Con Lic. de'Sup. / Si vendono alla Stamparia dell'Herede del Mancini, / appresso all'Orat. della SS. Trinità de'Pellegrini. [t.p.]

p. (2) -- [hand with finger names; guitar with 5 string and 9 fret numbers; = Pico 16[9]8 exactly but is upside-down]

p. 3 -- Regola per imparare ad accordar la Chitarra Spagnola. [tuning;

pp. 4-6 -- [verbal alfabeto]:

 

[S, T, and Z are not actually used in the pieces.]

p. 7 -- LETTERE TAGLIATE:

[Dt is not actually used in the pieces.]

[Other chords used in the tablature:]

 

p. 7 -- [= Pico 16[9]8 except for "Si Avvertisce" note about i/I difference]

III. Notation

Tablature: Alfabeto only without measure lines, meter or rhythm signs. Similar to Pico 16[9]8 except: letters above the upstrokes, not on the line as in Pico, so that it is much more legible. Songs (pp. 58-64): texts w/ alfabeto 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 (solo guitar):

 

Index of Pieces (songs with text and alfabeto only):

 

Notes:

1. These pieces are similar to, but not exact reprints of the pieces in this book. Return to text

2. These pieces equal songs in Pietro Millioni's Prima scielta di villanelle accomodate con l'intavolatura per cantare sopra la chitarra spagnola (Rome, 1627). Return to text

Index of Genres:

The following chart summarizes the 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 (solo guitar only):

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:

MANCINI, [heirs of; printer]
NUOVA CORONA D'INTAVOLATURA DI CHITARRA SPAGNOLA Novamente ristampato secondo il vero originale di PIETRO MILLIONI. . . . In Roma per l'Herede del Mancini 1661. Con Lic. de'Sup. Si vendono alla Stamparia dell'Herede del Mancini, appresso all'Orat. della SS. Trinità de'Pellegrini.

MILLIONI, Pietro [composer]
NUOVA CORONA D'INTAVOLATURA DI CHITARRA SPAGNOLA Novamente ristampato secondo il vero originale di PIETRO MILLIONI. / p. (1) [t.p.]

FINE Delle Sonate ordinarie E PRINCIPIO Delle Passeg giate, dove sono molte Ariette Venetiane bizzarre da sonare. DI PIETRO MILLIONI. / p. (32)

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 2841

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

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: Pages very brittle and edges uneven and tattered. First two fascicles darkened but legible.

Binding: Dark grey cardboard, with some spots; bent lower right corner, but in good condition.

Manuscript additions:
Cover -- white tape: "AA350" over "[AA]d50" ink; blue tape: "[AA]350"; ink: "Milioni Pietro / Nuova corona "

p. (1) -- top left, ink: "5312"; black stamp: "ARCHIVIO MUSICALE NEL LICEO . . ." [illegible in border]
p. 36 -- line 3, chord 1: N10:d >> N10:d d [by hand]

p. 58 -- black stamp: "LICEO MUSICALE G.B. MARTINI BIBLIOTECA BOLOGNA"