Period Sources of Music for Cithrinchen (17th/18th C.)
The following is a table of period printed and manuscript sources of music for the Hamburg Cithrinchen sorted by date of publication. Clicking on the links will display the contents for that book. I hope eventually to have links to the contents for all extant prints. If there are any other sources you know of that have been missed, or if you have a correction, please contact me and I will be more than happy to include them.
N.B. A title in brackets { } denotes a lost source.
Printed Music Sources for Cithrinchen (17th C.)
Ahlens, Johann Georg. Unstrutische Clio, Oder Musicalischer Mäyenlust Erster Theil (1676).
[Contains some music arranged for two "Citharine" or "Citharina" and basso continuo in staff notation.]
Ahlens, Johann Georg. Unstrutische Calliope, Oder Musicalischer Mäyenlust Zweyter Theil (1677).
[Contains some music arranged for two "Citherlein" or "Citarina" and basso continuo in staff notation.]
Ahlens, Johann Georg. Unstrutische Erato, Oder Musicalischer Mäyenlust Dritter Theil (1677).
[Contains some music arranged for two "Citherlein" and basso continuo in staff notation.]
Kremberg, J. Musicalische Gemüths-Ergötzung (1689). Dresden.
Manuscript Music Sources for Cithrinchen (17th/18th C.)
"Elias Walther's music book." MS Dresd. App. 1548. Germany: Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek. (c. 1660)
Mus.ms.40622. Poland: Kraków, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Biblioteka Jagiellońska. (1664-1680)
Mus.ms.40267. Poland: Kraków, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Biblioteka Jagiellońska. (c. 1700)
{Mus.ND VI 3241. Germany: Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky, Musiksammlung. (c. 1700) }
[Destroyed 1944]
Wenster G30. Sweden: Lund Universitet, Universitetsbiblioteket, Handskriftsavdelningen. (1722)
Ms.M.A/2488. Germany: Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky, Musiksammlung. (1736)
Bibliographical Sources
Boye, Gary. Music for the Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (1470-1799). https://music.library.appstate.edu/lute
Gill, Donald. ‘James Talbot’s Manuscript: V: Plucked Strings: the Wire-Strung Fretted Instruments and the Guitar’, CSJ, 15 (1962), 62–9
Gill, Donald. "The Seventeenth Century Gittern and the Englisch Zitterlein." The Lute, Vol 35 (1995).
"James Talbot’s manuscript." Mus.1187. Great Britain: Oxford, Christ Church Library. (c. 1695)
Michel, Andreas. "Hamburger Cithrinchen." http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/zistern.htm
Tyler, James. "Cithrinchen [bell guittern]." New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
Ward, John. "Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: notes on the cittern, gittern and guitar in 16th- and 17th-century England." Lute Society Journal 21 (1979-81).