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16th & 17th Century Cittern Music
16th & 17th Century Cittern Music
4-course chromatic cittern
4-course chromatic cittern
Modern Editions:
Collections:
Twenty ballads for 4-course cittern, edited by John H. Robinson
Six pieces for chromatic cittern from the Millar/Mackalman manuscript, edited by Rob MacKillop
Solo works from Cambridge manuscript D.d.14.24, edited by Andrew Hartig
Cittern music from the Mulliner and Willoughby lute books, with an addendum from the Dallis lute book, edited by Enzo Puzzovio.
From Anthony Holborne's Cittharn Schoole (1597)
From Phalese's Hortulus cytharae (1570):
From Playford's Musick's Delight on the Citharen (1666):
From the Sammenhammer manuscript
Facsimiles:
"Greene-Sleeves" from Playford's New Lessons for the Citharen (1666)
Manuscript additions to Robinson's New Citharen Lessons (1609), Nanki Library [external link]
Otley manuscript, MS Mus 181. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. [external link]
Elias Walther manuscript, MS Dresden App. 1548 (c. 1660) - pieces for "gittern" tuned cittern [external link]
4-course diatonic cittern
4-course diatonic cittern
Modern Editions:
Collections:
Nine pieces for diatonic cittern from Guillame Morlaye's Quatriesme livre (1552), edited by Mark Wheeler
Original compositions:
Allemande DelGRossi by Andrew Hartig. (Dedicated to both Gregory "Doc" Rossi and Damien Delgrossi)
From Le Roy Second livre de cistre (1564):
From Phalese Hortulus cytharae (1570):
From the Rothschild MS (Rothschild I, 411 [OVID])
From Viaera Nova et elegantissima (1564):
Facsimiles:
Collections:
Ten Branles de Champaigne for 4-course Renaissance cittern, collected by Andrew Hartig
The tablature for diatonic cittern from the Robert Edwards Commonplace Book (c. 1650), reintabulated by Rob MacKillop
Three 4-course diatonic cittern manuscripts from the University of Ghent, Belgium:
BHSL.HS.3898/10 [external link]
BHSL.HS.3898/11 [external link]
BHSL.HS.3898/12 [external link]
6-course chromatic cittern - Kargel's tuning
6-course chromatic cittern - Kargel's tuning
Modern editions:
From Kargel and Lais's Toppel Cythar (1575)
Facsimiles:
Tabulatur Buch auff dem Instrument / Christianus Hertzogk Zu / Sachssen. Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden. Signature: Mscr.Dresd.J.307.m. [external link]
6-course chromatic cittern - Virchi's tuning
6-course chromatic cittern - Virchi's tuning
Modern editions:
From Virchi's Il primo libro di tabolatura di citthara (1574)
6-course diatonic cittern
6-course diatonic cittern
Duets, trios, & ensembles
Duets, trios, & ensembles
Modern editions:
Songs
Songs
18th Century Cittern Music
18th Century Cittern Music
General
General
Modern editions:
Edvard Storm MS (pieces for Norwegian sister), edited by Rockford Mjos
Facsimiles:
Moravian Choralbuch, BMB 4, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA.
Ramillete Florido (1743), Lothar Siemens Library collection at the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria [external link]
English guittar
English guittar
Facsimiles:
All music files via Google Drive
All music files via Google Drive
NOTE: The files below do NOT include the external links listed above.
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