Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

Autor: Thomas, Benjamin W.

The Lute Books of Giulio Cesare Barbetta: A Polyphonic Transcription of the Composer's Complete Works and an Analysis of the Fourteen Fantasias Volume I

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The great number of musical sources preserved in manuscript and printed form clearly reflects the prominent position held by the lute as a musical instrument during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.  Only a relatively small portion of this vast literature is presently available to scholars and interested laymen in the form of modern transcriptions.  Referred to as "l'instrument noble par excellence,"
the lute's popular and fashionable appeal is evidenced by the large number of composers who dedicated themselves to this instrument.

Among the number of outstanding lute composers living in Italy during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was Giulio Cesare Barbetta (c. 1540-after 1603).  During his lifetime Barbetta published a total of four books of lute pieces containing arrangements of polyphonic compositions of various Renaissance composers as well as a large number of original compositions including .preludes, airs, fantasias, and
dance pieces.  Although Barbetta achieved importance as a leading figure in the Italian school of lute composition,

The Lute Books of Giulio Cesare Barbetta: A Polyphonic Transcription of the Composer's Complete Works and an Analysis of the Fourteen Fantasias Volume I there is little readily available material, either biographical or musical; this study provides the scholar, the performer, and the listener with biographical data and a modern edition of the  composer's complete works.

Volume I is organized in six chapters with three appendices.  Chapter I serves as an introduction providing information relative to the position held by the lute in domestic and courtly circles, the universal aspect of the instrument, its early history and development, its notation, various reasons for the lute's subsequent decline in popularity, and a brief discussion of Barbetta as a composer.

Volume II contains a polyphonic transcription  of Books One (1569) and Two (1582) and Volume III, Books Three (1585) and Four (1603).  Both Volumes II and III are preceded by a table of contents.

Volume I

Volume II

Volume III

 

 


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