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

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Le Roy, Adrian, approximately 1520-1598.

Contributor:

Rowbotham, James, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Breve et facile instruction pour apprendre ... la guiterne. English

Subjects (All):

Cittern--Instruction and study.

Cittern.

Cittern music.

Genre:

Notated music.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves ; 13 x 18 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : [James Rowbotham], [1568]

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.

Local Notes:

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.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue, S96083

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 15486.5

Brown, Howard Mayer. Instrumental music printed before 1600, 1568⁹

OCLC:

249062142