The guitar was played everywhere in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare, from the royal court to the tavern. This groundbreaking book uses new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical world of the instrument among courtiers, gentlemen and apprentices.
The guitar was played everywhere in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare, from the royal court to the tavern. This groundbreaking book uses new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical world of the instrument among courtiers, gentlemen and apprentices.
Christopher Page is a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor of Medieval Music and Literature at the University of Cambridge, and from October 2014 Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College, London for three years. He holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology. In 1981 he founded the professional vocal ensemble Gothic Voices, which now has twenty-five CDs in the catalogue, three of which won the coveted Gramophone Early Music Record of the Year award. In 2012, he was a founder member of the Consortium for Guitar Research at Sidney Sussex College, an affiliate of the Royal Musical Association. He has published many books and articles on early music, most recently a major study, The Christian West and its Singers: The First Thousand Years (2010).
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Introduction 1. Imagery 2. Who owned a gittern? 3. The gittern trade 4. 'An instruction to the Gitterne' 5. Sounding strings 6. The gittern and Tudor song 7. Thomas Whythorne: the autobiography of a Tudor guitarist Conclusion Appendices: Appendix A. The terms 'gittern' and 'cittern' Appendix B. References to gitterns from 1542-1605 Appendix C. The probate inventory of Dennys Bucke (1584) Appendix D. Octave strings on the fourth and third course Appendix E. The fiddle tunings of Jerome of Moravia, swept strings and the guitar Appendix F. The mandore and the wire-strung gittern Appendix G. The ethos of the guitar in sixteenth-century France Appendix H. Raphe Bowle.
Introduction 1. Imagery 2. Who owned a gittern? 3. The gittern trade 4. 'An instruction to the Gitterne' 5. Sounding strings 6. The gittern and Tudor song 7. Thomas Whythorne: the autobiography of a Tudor guitarist Conclusion Appendices: Appendix A. The terms 'gittern' and 'cittern' Appendix B. References to gitterns from 1542-1605 Appendix C. The probate inventory of Dennys Bucke (1584) Appendix D. Octave strings on the fourth and third course Appendix E. The fiddle tunings of Jerome of Moravia, swept strings and the guitar Appendix F. The mandore and the wire-strung gittern Appendix G. The ethos of the guitar in sixteenth-century France Appendix H. Raphe Bowle.
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