A Guide to Playing the Baroque Guitar
- Author: Tyler, James
I recommend [this] book highly to all students, players, and teachers of the Baroque guitar —
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$43.00Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1. The Basics
- 1. The Instrument
- 2. Tuning and Stringing
- 3. Technique
- 4. Reading Tablature Notation
- Italian Tablature
- French Tablature
- 5.The Fundamentals of Battuto (Strumming) Technique
- Simple Strokes
- Rhythmic Ornamentation
- 6. Reading Mixed Tablature Notation
- Performance Markings
- Ornament Signs
- More about Alfabeto
- 7. Idioms Unique to the Baroque Guitar
- "Inversionless" Chords
- Campanelas
- The Selective Playing of Bourdons
- 8. A Note on Basso Continuo
- Part 2. An Anthology of Music for Baroque Guitar
- Introduction to the Anthology
- 9. Pieces Suitable for Stringing A
- Pavanas por la D / Gaspar Sanz (1675)
- Suite of English Tunes / Elizabeth Cromwell's Manuscript (ca. 1684)
- Corrente nona / Ferdinando Valdambrini (1646)
- Allemande-Sarabande / Antoine Carre (1671)
- 10. Pieces suitable for Stringing B
- Prelud[io]-Chiacona / Francesco Corbetta (1648)
- Alemanda-Corrente-Sarabanda-Giga / Giovanni Battista Granata (1674)
- Passacaille dite Mariona / Lelio Colista (ca. 1675)
- Prelude / Angelo Michele Bartolotti (ca. 1655)
- Allemande "La Furieuse" / Francois Campion (1705)
- Folies d'Espagne / Francois Le Cocq (ca. 1700)
- 11. Pieces Suitable for Stringing C
- Pavaniglia con parti variate / Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (ca. 1630)
- Aria di Fiorenza / Anonymous/Carlo Calvi (1646)
- Capriccio-Sarabanda-Capriccio / Francesco Asioli (1676)
- Jacaras / Francisco Guerau (1694)
- 12. Pieces for Guitar and Basso Continuo
- Sinfonia a 2 / Francesco Corbetta (1643)
- Sinfonia a dui / Giovanni Battista Granata (1651)
- Follia: Sonata 12 de Coreli [sic] / Arcangelo Corelli/Anonymous (ca. 1725-30)
- Selected Bibliography
- Index