Sixteenth-Century Guitar Tablatures
Beginning with Mudarra in 1546, the guitar appears in 13 extant printed books
from the sixteenth century. By far the largest number of these books
appears in Paris in the 1550s. All genre types are represented, but
dances feature more prominently than the others. Many of the later
books (from 1560 on) are no longer extant.
- Mudarra 1546
- Mudarra, Alonso. Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela
(Seville: Juan de Leon?)
Four-course guitar, vihuela, voice and vihuela, harp or organ in
Italian tablature
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- Barberiis 1549b
- Barberiis, Melchiore de. Opera intitolata contina, Intabolatura
di lauto (Venice: H. Scotto)
Lute, two lutes, seven-course guitar in Italian tablature
- [Morlaye 1550]
- Morlaye, Guillaume. Tabulature de guiterne (Paris: Michel
Fezandat)
Guitar in French tablature? **LOST
- Gorlier 1551
- Gorlier, Simon. Le troysieme livre (Paris: Robert Gran
Jon & Michel Fezandat)
Four-course guitar in French tablature
- Le Roy 1551b
- Le Roy, Adrian. Premier livre de tabulature de guiterre
(Paris: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
Four-course guitar in French tablature
- [Le Roy 1551c]
- Le Roy, Adrian. Briefve et facile instruction pour apprendre
la tabulature (?)
Guitar in French tablature? **LOST
- Le Roy 1552b
- Le Roy, Adrian. Tiers livre de tabulature de guiterre
(Paris: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
Four-course guitar in French tablature
- Morlaye 1552b
- Morlaye, Guillaume. Le Premier livre de chansons . . .
(Paris: Robert GranJon and Michel Fezandat)
Four-course guitar in French tablature
- Morlaye 1552c
- Morlaye, Guillaume. Quatriesme livre contenant plusieurs fantasies
. . . (Paris: Michel Fezandat)
Four-course guitar, cittern in French tablature
- Brayssing 1553
- Brayssing, Gregoire. Quart livre de tabulature de guiterre
(Paris: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
Four-course guitar in French tablature
- Morlaye 1553
- Morlaye, Guillaume. Le second livre de chansons . . .
(Paris: Michel Fezandat)
Four-course guitar in French tablature
- Fuenllana 1554
- Fuenllana, Miguel de. Libro de musica para Vihuela intitulado
Orphenica lyra (Valladolid: ?)
Voice and vihuela, six-course vihuela, five-course vihuela, four-course
guitar in Italian tablature
- Le Roy 1554
- Le Roy, Adrian. Cinqiesme livre de guiterre (Paris: Adrian
Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
Voice and four-course guitar in French tablature
- Le Roy 1556
- Le Roy, Adrian. Second livre de guiterre (Paris: Adrian
Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
Voice and four-course guitar in French tablature
- [Fuenllana 1564]
- Fuenllana, Miguel de. Libro de música para Vihuela
intitulado Orphenica Lira (Madrid: Francisco Sánchez)
Vihuela (five and six courses), four-course guitar in Italian tablature;
= Fuenllana 1554
- [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
- [Gorlier 156?b]
- Gorlier, Simon. Livre de Tabulature de Guiterne (Lyon:
Simon Gorlier)
Guitar in French tablature? **LOST
- Phalèse and Bellère 1570b
- Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers.
Selectissima elegantissimaque (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse
and Jean Bellère)
Guitar in French tablature
- [Phalèse and Bellère 1573a]
- Phalèse, Pierre, and Jean Bellère, publishers.
Selectissima carmina ludenda in Quinterna (Louvain: Pierre
Phalèse and Jean Bellère)
Guitar in French tablature; = Phalèse and Bellère 1570b? **LOST
(two volumes)
- [Le Roy 1578]
- Le Roy, Adrian. Briefve & facile instruction . . . sur
la Guiterne (Paris: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)
Guitar in French tablature? = [Le Roy 1551c]; **LOST
- [Amat 1586]
- Amat, Juan Carlos. Guitarra Española (Barcelona:
?)
Guitar in a special number tablature; = Amat 1639; **LOST
- [Giuliani 158?]
- Giuliani, [Girolamo]. Intavolatura de chitara (Venice:
Giacomo Vincenti)
Guitar in Italian tablature? **LOST
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