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The Guitar and its Music - From the Renaissance to the Classical Era (Paperback, New edition)
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The Guitar and its Music - From the Renaissance to the Classical Era (Paperback, New edition)
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Following on from James Tyler's The Early Guitar: A History and
Handbook(OUP 1980) tthis collaboration with Paul Sparks (their
previous book for OUP, The Early Mandolin, appeared in 1989),
presents new ideas and research on the history and development of
the guitar and its music from the Renaissance to the dawn of the
Classical era. Tyler's systematic study of the two main guitar
types found between about 1550 and 1750 focuses principally on what
the sources of the music (published and manuscript) and the
writings of contemporary theorists reveal about the nature of the
instruments and their roles in the music making of the period. The
annotated lists of primary sources, previously published in The
Early Guitar but now revised and expanded, constitute the most
comprehensive bibliography of Baroque guitar music to date. His
appendices of performance practice information should also prove
indispensable to performers and scholars alike. Paul Sparks also
breaks new ground, offering an extensive study of a period in the
guitar's history-notably c.1759-c.1800-which the standard histories
usually dismiss in a few short paragraphs. Far from being a dormant
instrument at this time, the guitar is shown to have been central
to music-making in France, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and South
America. Sparks provides a wealth of information about players,
composers, instruments, and surviving compositions from this
neglected but important period, and he examines how the five-course
guitar gradually gave way to the six-string instrument, a process
that occurred in very different ways (and at different times) in
France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Britain.
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