Preface

Acknowledgments

Part 1. The Basics

1. The Instrument

2. Tuning and Stringing

3. Technique

4. Reading Tablature Notation

Italian Tablature

French Tablature

[...] 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 Carré (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" / François Campion (1705)

Folies d'Espagne / François 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 à dui / Giovanni Battista Granata (1651)

Follià: Sonata 12 de Coreli [sic] / Arcangelo Corelli/Anonymous (ca. 1725-30)

Selected Bibliography

Index