Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of music examples
- Acknowledgments
- Note on music examples
- List of abbreviations
- 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
- Appendix A The terms ‘gittern’ and ‘cittern’
- Appendix B References to gitterns from 1542 to 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
- Bibliography
- Index
List of abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2016
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of music examples
- Acknowledgments
- Note on music examples
- List of abbreviations
- 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
- Appendix A The terms ‘gittern’ and ‘cittern’
- Appendix B References to gitterns from 1542 to 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
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Guitar in Tudor EnglandA Social and Musical History, pp. xviii - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015