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The guitar in Tudor England : a social and musical history / Christopher Page.
- Title
- The guitar in Tudor England : a social and musical history / Christopher Page.
- Author
- Page, Christopher, 1952-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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- Description
- xix, 248 pages; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "This groundbreaking book, the first entirely devoted to the renaissance guitar in England, deploys new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical world of the four-course guitar among courtiers, government servants and gentlemen." -- Back of book.
- Series Statement
- Musical performance and reception
- Uniform Title
- Musical performance and reception
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Imagery -- Who owned a gittern? -- The gittern trade -- 'An instruction to the gitterne' -- Sounding strings -- The gittern and Tudor song -- Thomas Whythorne : the autobiography of a Tudor guitarist.
- ISBN
- 9781107108363
- 1107108365
- LCCN
- ^^2014046560
- OCLC
- 897946458
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library