[The breffe and playne instruction to lerne to play on the gyttron and also the Cetterne]

Contributor:

Rowbotham, James (printer)

Name:

Le Roy, Adrian, approximately 1520-1598

Date:

1568

Publisher:

[James Rowbotham]

Subject:

Cittern -- Instruction and study; Cittern music; Cittern

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

Notated music; scores (documents for music)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves; 13 x 18 cm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from: Brown, Howard Mayer. Instrumental music printed before 1600.; Fragment of an English translation, of which no complete copy is extant, of Adrian Le Roy. Breve et facile instruction pour apprendre la tablature : a bien accorder, conduire, et disposer la main sur la guiterne. Paris : Le Roy, 1551.; French cittern tablature.; MT654.C58 .L47 B7 1568: Two separate fragments, joined in the 20th century, pieced together at the foot of one leaf and at the head of the second leaf. Described in: Tyler, James. The guitar and its music (Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 26-29 and Ward, John M. "Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: Notes on the Cittern, Gittern & Guitar in 16th & 17th-Century England," Lute Society Journal XXI (1979-81), p. 16-17 and 107-8, both articles laid in. Formerly bound into library's copy of Archaionomia, 1568 (Lea Collection L.1.11); Photographic print and negative available.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio MT654.C58 .L47 B7 1568

Collection:

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)