French tablature for nine-course lute

Lautenbuch des Wolff Christian von Harling, ca.1618
Herausgegeben von Joachim Lüdtke




Lutebook of Wolff Christian von Harling



     
Lübeck, 2005. 21 x 30 cm, 117 pp.

Halftone. Lutebook formerly in the possession of Wolf Christian von Harling, a nobleman from Eversen, Lower Saxony. The manuscript, in several hands, contains dances of French provenance (some of them clearly based on the four-voice versions of Michael Praetorius’ Terpsichore), English music (sometimes with German titles, including versions of Dowland’s Battle Galliard and Frog Galliard), and Lutheran chorales and other German pieces. French tablature for nine-course lute (nearly all the pieces may be realized on lutes with 7 or 8 courses). Clothbound. $84

     




Lutebook of Wolff Christian von Harling
                   

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