Works for the Cittern
There are 16 extant books for the cittern from the sixteenth century, plus
14 books now lost. French sources outnumber Italian nearly 2 to 1, and the
bulk of the repertoire consists of intabulations and dances. Much of the
material printed in the 1570s and 1580s is reprinted from earlier sources.
Each book is listed as to type of tablature (TAB), either Italian (IT), French
(FR), or German (GER), and the contents are divided into four genre types:
songs (with standard notation and tablature), intabulations (arrangements
of pre-existing vocal models), abstract pieces (ricercari, fantasias, etc.),
and dances. Finally, pieces reprinted from previous sources are listed
separately.
Cittern Tablatures
Books IT/FR/GER songs/intabs/abstr/dances REPR. pieces
1525-1532 [1] 0/ 0/ 0 0 0 0 0 0
1550-1559 1 0/ 1/ 0 0 0 0 9 0
1560-1569 5 [+6] 0/ 5/ 0 0 107 3 167 4
1570-1579 5 [+3] 4/ 1/ 0 7 93 3 79 199
1580-1589 2 [+1] 1/ 1/ 0 0 6 2 42 183
1590-1599 3 [+3] 0/ 3/ 0 0 81 6 59 0
totals: 16 [+14] 5/11/ 0 7 287 14 356 386
- [Schlumberger
1525/32]
- Schlumberger, J. Cythare germanice tabulature (Mainz?:
)
Four-course cittern? **LOST
- Morlaye 1552c
- Morlaye, Guillaume. Quatriesme livre contenant plusieurs fantasies
. . . (Paris: Michel Fezandat)
Four-course guitar, cittern in French tablature
- [Vreedman 1563]
- Vreedman, Sebastian. Carmina quae cythara pusantur (Louvain:
Pierre Phalèse)
Cittern in French tablature; = Vreedman 1569? **LOST
- Le Roy 1564
- Le Roy, Adrian. Second livre de cistre (Paris: Adrian
Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
Cittern in French tablature
- Viaera 1564
- Viaera, Frederic. Nova et elegantissima in cythara (Louvain:
Pierre Phalèse)
Cittern in French tablature
- Le Roy and Ballard 1565
- Le Roy, Adrian and Robert Ballard. Breve et facile instruction
pour apprendre la tablature (Paris: Adrian Le Roy and Robert
Ballard)
Cittern in French tablature
- [Rowbotham 1568]
- Rowbotham, James, publisher. The breffe and playne instruction
to lerne to play on the gyttron and also the Cetterne (London:
James Rowbotham)
Guitar, cittern in French tablature? = Le Roy and Ballard 1565?
**LOST
- Vreedman 1568
- Vreedman, Sebastian. Nova longeque elgantissima cithara
(Louvain: Pierre Phalèse)
Cittern in French tablature
- [Kargel 1569a]
- Kargel, Sixt. Carmina Italica, Gallica & Germanica ludenda
cythara (?)
Cittern in Italian tablature? = Kargel and Lais 1575? **LOST
- [Kargel 1569c]
- Kargel, Sixt. Renovata cythara (Mainz: ?)
Cittern in Italian tablature? = Kargel 1578? **LOST
- Vreedman 1569
- Vreedman, Sebastian. Carminum quae cythara pulsantur liber
secundus (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse)
Cittern in French tablature
- [Gorlier 156?a]
- Gorlier, Simon. Livre de Tabulature de Cistre (Lyon: Simon
Gorlier)
Cittern in French tablature? **LOST
- [Le Roy 156?]
- Le Roy, Adrian. [Troisième livre de cistre] (?)
Cittern in French tablature? **LOST
- Phalèse and Bellère 1570a
- Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Hortulus cytharae
(Louvain: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
Cittern in French tablature
- Virchi 1574
- Virchi, Paolo. Il primo libro di tabolatura di citthara
(Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Voice and six-course cittern, six-course cittern, fourteen-course
cittern in Italian tablature
- [anon. 1575]
- Anonymous. Jardinet de cistre (Paris: ?)
Cittern in French tablature? **LOST
- [Kargel 1575]
- Kargel, Sixt. Renovata Cythara (?)
Cittern in French tablature; = Kargel 1578? **LOST
- Kargel and Lais 1575
- Kargel, Sixt, and Johan Dominico Lais. Toppel Cythar (Strassburg:
Bernhard Jobin)
Six-course cittern in Italian tablature
- [Phalèse 1575]
- Phalèse, Pierre, publisher. Hortulus cytharae (Louvain:
Pierre Phalèse)
Cittern in French tablature; = Phalèse and Bellère 1570a? **LOST
- Kargel 1578
- Kargel, Sixt. Renovata cythara (Strassburg: Bernhard Jobin)
Four-course cittern in Italian tablature inverted
- Kargel and Lais 1578
- Kargel, Sixt, and Johan Dominico Lais. Toppel Cythar (Strassburg:
Bernhard Jobin)
Six-course cittern in Italian tablature; = Kargel and Lais 1575
- Kargel 1580
- Kargel, Sixt. Renovata cythara (Strassburg: Bernhard Jobin)
Cittern in Italian tablature inverted; = Kargel 1578
- [Brambilla 1582]
- Brambilla, Ambrosius. Anleitung die Zither zu spielen
(?)
Cittern? **LOST
- Phalèse and Bellère 1582
- Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers. Hortulus citharae
(Antwerp: Pierre Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
Cittern in French tablature
- [Bellère 1592]
- Bellère, Jean, publisher. Le jardinet du cistre vulgaire
(Anvers: Jean Bellère)
Cittern in French tablature; **LOST
- [Barley 1593]
- Barley, William. A new booke of citterne lessons (?)
Cittern in French tablature? **LOST
- [Danter 1593?]
- Danter, J. A Moste Perfect and True Instruction (London:
?)
Cittern in Italian tablature? **LOST
- Holborne 1597
- Holborne, Antony. The cittharn schoole (London: Peter
Short)
Voices, bass and cittern, cittern in letter tablature (French tablature?)
- Allison 1599
- Allison, Richard. The psalmes of David in meter (London:
William Barley)
Voices, lute or cittern in French tablature
- Morley 1599
- Morley, Thomas. The first booke of consort lessons (London:
William Barley)
Two viols, lute, pandora, and cittern in French tablature
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