Renaissance Guitar Music

The following files were produced from scans of microfilm copies of the texts taken at the UC Berkeley Music Library in late 2019 and early 2020. Each scan was rotated, had its contrast adjusted, and where needed had some clean up done for removal of artifacts from the microfilm or capture process. The images were then converted to pdfs and put back together. All work was done using GIMP, Imagemagick, and command line pdf manipulation tools mostly from the poppler-utils package. All work was done on a Linux laptop rigged for working supine. Eventually I hope to get all these files up to IMSLP, but until then, they are here.

Notation for the Guitar, Lute and Vihuela - Johann von Solothurn https://share.google/3ef2pwQpTXnJiMGMd

I exchanged some email with Johann when I was getting started with renaissance guitar. His basic introduction will help you start playing from the same booklets our Renaissance antecedents played from.

I have never met Duarte, but they have a nice Ren Guitar blog. They are working on creating transcriptions of all known music written for the 4 course guitar. They have downloadable copies of originals, as well as transcriptions into French tab, Italian tab, modern staff, and musescore format. https://duarteguitarra.music.blog/original-manuscripts/. I am using the Mudarra transcriptions from Duarte's site.

This is a truly lovely album. It was released on CD Baby. The mp3's can still be purchased on Amazon Music. All but the last track are from the above books. This is the album that convinced me learn this instrument and its music.

A review of the CD from 2018 by E Colahan

If you want to hear the album, you can purchase tracks from amazon music at https://www.amazon.com/Margot-labourez-les-vignes/dp/B003PIGJDG or hear them on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PYy5yXd7Y&list=OLAK5uy_knnQJsulPVvyqHi5UiFzOQ-SY1Mx9G4Wo