The Spanish baroque guitar, with a transcription of De Murcia's Passacalles y obras / by Neil D. Pennington.

Author/creator Pennington, Neil D.
Other author Murcia, Santiago de.
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : UMI Research Press, ©1981.
Description2 volumes : illustrations, music ; 24-29 cm.
Subjects
Guitar.
Musical instruments--Spain.
Guitar music.

SeriesStudies in musicology ; no. 46
Studies in musicology ; no. 46. ^A163772
Contents v. 1. Introduction -- Background: Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The land ; Seventeenth-century decline and revitalization under the Bourbons ; The inquisition during the reign of Felipe V ; The Italian musical presence in the court of Felipe V ; Benito Jeronimo Feijoo -- The Baroque guitar in Spain. The instrument ; Spanish guitar notation: 1596-1799 ; Tuning ; Technique ; Ornamentation -- Sources on the Baroque guitar in Spain. Sources of primary importance ; Sources of secondary importance -- The musical circle and musical labyrinth -- Santiago de Murcia's Passacalles y obras de guitarra por todos los tonos naturales y acidentales (1732). Background ; The borrowings ; The transcriptions ; The Passacalles ; The suites ; Ornamentation and left-hand fingerings -- Overview: the place of the guitar in Spanish society during the Baroque era -- Appendix I. Guitarists, guitar makers, vihuelists, lutenists, and composers ; Appendix II. Selected documents relating to musicians in Spain during the Baroque guitar period ; Appendix III. Postscript: "Antidotum tarantulae" ; Appendix IV. List of incipits from the Libro de diferentes cifras... -- v. 2. Passacalles -- Suites.
General noteRevision of the author's thesis, University of Maryland, 1979.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 289-300) and index.
Contains title Passacalles y obras. 1981.
LCCN 81013016
ISBN0835711889 (set)
ISBN0835712613 (vol. 1)

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Music Music Stacks ML1015.G9 P5 1981 V. 1 ✔ Available Place Hold
Music Music Stacks ML1015.G9 P5 1981 V. 2 ✔ Available Place Hold