DEDICATION; PREFACE; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I: THE GUITAR IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; 1. Spain: La Guitarra de quatro ordenes; 2. France: The Creation of the Repertory; 3. England: '... yused of gentilmen, and of the best sort ...'; 4. Italy: La Chitarra da sette corde; 5. Italy: The Role of the Guitar in the Rise of Monody; PART II: THE SPANISH GUITAR (C.1600-C.1750); 6. Italy: The Creation of the Repertory; 7. France: Les Guitarristes Royals; 8. 1. England; 2. The Low Countries; 3. Scandinavia; 4. Germany and the Austrian Empire; 9. Spain, Portugal, and the New World; APPENDIX I. A BRIEF GUIDE TO READING AND INTERPRETING BAROQUE GUITAR TABLATURES; APPENDIX II. SOURCES OF SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THE TUNING AND STRINGING OF THE FIVE-COURSE GUITAR; APPENDIX III. THE MANDORA; PART III: THE ORIGINS OF THE CLASSICAL GUITAR; 10. 1750-69: The Emergence of the Six-Course Guitar; 1. Spain, Portugal, and South America; 2. France; 3. Britain; 11. 1770-89: The First Six-String Guitars; 1. A Short History of String Making; 2. Spain, South America, and Portugal; 3. Italy; 4. France; 5. England. Germany, and Austria; 12. 1790 to the Early 1800's: The Triumph of the Six-String Guitar; 1. Spain and Portugal; 2. Britain; 3. Italy; 4. France; 5. Germany, Austria, and Elsewhere; 13. The Guitar |