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The Bottegari Lute Book: Volume 1
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Volume One of Mignarda Editions' long-awaited performing edition of the Bottegari manuscript is now available for shipping. The Bottegari Lute Book: Volume One contains music for voice with lute from the manuscript, including all the sacred music with Latin and Italian texts, the complete lute solos, and some of the more important settings of madrigals arranged by Bottegari for solo voice with lute. The edition is formatted for performance and only one exceptionally long piece has page turns.

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21 sacred & devotional pieces for voice & lute; 3 madrigals for voice & lute; 8 lute solos; appendix with 2 alternative settings, plus performance notes, texts & translations; spiral bound
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Lutesongs of the 15th Century: an Anthology
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Mignarda Editions is very pleased to present an anthology of music from late fifteenth-century France and Italy. The edition consists of chansons by composers Bedyngham, Du Fay, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Walter Frye, Ghizeghem and Robert Morton. Also featured are settings of chansons for lute solo from the Capirola manuscript as well as new arrangements. Included are texts, translations, and editorial notes. As always, Mignarda Editions are carefully formatted for performance with text underlaid and no page turns.

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16 chansons & 9 lute solos, plus performance notes,
texts & translations; spiral bound
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Jean-Baptiste Besard: Airs de Court
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Mignarda Editions presents a rare selection of airs de court from Jean Baptiste Besard's 1603 printed work, Thesaurus Harmonicus, a publication famous for its errors. Included are newly corrected versions of the six familiar airs from Respighi's Ancient Airs & Dances. The cantus of each air is transposed to conform with a lute tuned in G. The edition includes variants, translations, lute solos, and performance notes.

33 airs and lute solos, plus performance notes, translations, & variants, spiral bound
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Italian Lute Songs of the Sixteenth Century: An Anthology
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This second volume in Mignarda Editions' series of lute songs presents both rare and familiar Italian frottole, madrigali and lute solos by Marco Cara, Sebastiano and Constanza Festa, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Josquin, Phillipe Verdelot, Giovanni Matteo Asola, Luca Marenzio, Francesco da Milano and others. Several vocal settings are paired with intabulations for lute solo of the same piece, either from original sixteenth century sources or arranged by the editor for performance purposes. Also included are fantasias and recercars that are linked thematically to the vocal pieces. All songs are set for a lute tuned in G and most cantus parts are in the treble clef.

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42 pages of music plus notes and translations, spiral bound
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The Collected Lute Works of Hippolito Tromboncino
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Hippolito Tromboncino, a mid-sixteenth century Venetian singer/lutenist, is overshadowed by and often mistaken for his more colorful predecessor, Bartolomeo. His imaginative and highly decorated lute songs, found in the Bottegari manuscript, appear to represent the oft-depicted sixteenth century practice of playing the lower voices of a madrigal on the lute while singing an ornamented version of the superius. This edition contains the six known lute songs of Hippolito Tromboncino along with three fantasia/ricercars, two of which are of questionable attribution.

French tablature for renaissance lute in G and treble clef
20 pages, spiral bound
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This volume presents a selection of French chansons for lute and voice, many of which are newly intabulated from the original part music.

French tablature for renaissance lute in G and treble clef

Shakespeare's Lute Book
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A performing edition of songs, dances, and ballad tunes referenced in the work of Shakespeare and his circle. All pieces are formatted for ease of performance for voice and lute and for lute solo.

French tablature for renaissance lute in G and treble clef

The Bottegari Lute Book: Volume 2
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Volume 2 presents the the balance of the madrigal settings and the complete canzonette and villanelle from this famous manuscript source.

French tablature for renaissance lute in G and treble clef

Ron Andrico is a specialist in historical music for plucked strings and has had an active career in solo and ensemble performance, vocal accompaniment, recording, as an arranger, and in music for theater. Since 1995, he has been concentrating on the lute and is known for his work in editing historical sources of lute music, producing results both scholarly and practical.