| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 248 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Series |
Musical performance and reception |
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Musical performance and reception.
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| Contents |
Imagery -- Who owned a gittern? -- The gittern trade -- 'An instruction to the gitterne' -- Sounding strings -- The gittern and Tudor song -- Thomas Whythorne : the autobiography of a Tudor guitarist |
| Summary |
"This groundbreaking book, the first entirely devoted to the renaissance guitar in England, deploys new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical world of the four-course guitar among courtiers, government servants and gentlemen."--Back of book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Guitar -- England -- 16th century
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Strings.
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Guitar
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Gitarre
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Gitarr -- historia.
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England
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316378953 |
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1316378950 |
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9781316257975 |
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1316257975 |
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9781316374955 |
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1316374955 |
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1316373959 |
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9781316373958 |
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