In addition, works for the baroque lute from Johann Sebastian Bach and Sylvius Léopold Weiss and the many sonatas for harpsichord of Domenico Scarlatti adapt marvelously well to the guitar.Ĭlassical period music for classical guitar (1750 to 1840)ĭuring this time the Italian guitarists travelled through all of Europe. In 1692 the Italian Ludovico Roncalli published a collection of music for guitar. He published his "Nouvelles Découvertes sur la guitare" in Paris in 1705 as well as a treaty on accompaniment which includes the first fugues for guitar ever written.
In 1703, François Campion was given the title of professor of theorbo and guitar at the Royal Academy of Paris by king Louis XIV.
Robert de Visée, successor of Francesco Corbetta as musician at the court of the King of France, had his "Livre de guittarre dédié au Roy" printed in Paris (1682). In France, in 1670, Francesco Corbetta printed in Paris "la guitarre Royalle". In 1674, the Spaniard Gaspar Sanz published his "Instruccion de musica sobre la guitarra española". This innovation, together with the introduction of the flat back from about 1650, heralded the birth of the “Spanish guitar".īaroque Music for classical guitar (1670 to 1750) Round about 1570, the sonority and register of the guitar were increased with the addition of a fifth string. Between 15 they published 5 books of guitar tablatures. In 1549 Adrian Le Roy, together with his cousin, Robert Ballard, founded an important publishing house which was given the royal seal of approval. In the third book are published for the first time small pieces written for the four string guitar.ĭuring the sixteenth century, a score of books for guitar were published, mainly in Paris. In 1546 “Tres Libros de Musica para Vihuela" by Alonso Mudarra appeared in Seville. Two years later, in 1538, Luys de Narváez published in Valladolid "Los seys libros del Delphin de musica" which introduced into Spain the idea of Variations on a Theme. In 1536, that is to say a hundred years after the appearance of printing in Europe, Don Luys Milán, a gentleman at the court of the king of Portugal and of the Islands, published in Valencia, under the title of El Maestro, a collection of music which contains instrumental pieces for vihuela, as well as songs with vihuela accompaniment. This new process replaced the old practice of handwritten scores and, for the first time, the very rich lute repertory could be widely disseminated.
The pages were printed in three stages: first, the staves, then the notes and finally the text and the page numbers. In 1501, in Venice, the printer Ottavio Petrucci was the first to use typography in the production of music. Music of the Renaissance for classical guitar
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