This is a translation from Swedish into English of the first 12 pages of the text in the Book Altgitarren by Per-Olof

Johnson. The
translation has been done for the benefit of the web community AltoGuitar.com. The translator is Sten Edebck, and the translation has
been checked and adjusted by James R Smith to ensure international usage. Pdf version by Christophe Han.
The book Altgitarren can be ordered from The Malm Academy of Music, telephone +46 (0)40 325450, website www.mhm.lu.se

about the origin of the alto guitar, technical playing instructions, short instrument history
and

transcriptions and arrangements for alto guitar by

Per-Olof Johnson
Plus further arrangements and transcriptions for alto guitar by
Anders Miolin
Brje Sandquist
Gunnar Hansson
Gunnar Spjuth
Gran Sllscher
Musical notation: Brje Sandquist

The Malm Academy of Music 1998

1. On the origin of the alto guitar

Since the end of the 1950's, when I ordered my first Bolin guitar, I had a very stimulating time of cooperation with the
music instrument designer Georg Bolin1. Georg possessed an extreme dexterity in craftsmanship, a great knowledge of
materials, and an unusually well-developed feeling for sound and a keen ear for quality of tone. He was not afraid of
unconventional solutions to problems, and so his design had a characteristic feature of ingenious simplicity.
Georg had not only a keen ear for quality of tone, he listened readily to the wishes of instrumentalists, and so he
always worked in a productive way together with performing musicians of different kinds. For me, this cooperation
was mostly, for natural reasons, about his design of various types of guitars like bass, baritone, tenor, alto, treble, and
octave guitar.
Concerning ideal sound, he tried to attain a pure, formable tone with a great possibility for variation of dynamics and
sound. Moreover, he aimed at great clarity which makes each part of a polyphonic movement stand out in transparent
lucidity, which is especially important for polyphonic music.
When I first met Georg I had for a long time pondered over the problems which occur when you try to transcribe music
for renaissance and baroque lute to ordinary tenor guitar. In the spring of 1960 I acquired an instrument that was a
reconstruction of a renaissance lute (Jordan), to be able to play lute music from the renaissance more faithfully to the
original way. In the autumn of 1960 I became a registered student at the Schola Cantorum at Basel, Switzerland, and
there I studied renaissance lute, musical notation, and performance practice concerning renaissance and baroque music.
However, I soon realized the difficulty of combining playing a single course guitar with playing a double course
renaissance lute2. Plucking a single string and plucking a double course require two completely different techniques
(regarding single string plucking, which is done with the nails of the right hand, see the chapter about plucking).
Plucking a double course is done with the finger tips of the right hand, which is an entirely different thing.
I could not compromise. The mere fact that the single strings of the guitar should be plucked with the nails and the lute
courses with the finger tips, makes such a compromise very complicated, not to say impossible. Either I had to
abandon the guitar and play only renaissance lute, or remain faithful to the guitar and play only guitar.
I then chose the latter alternative.
The older lute and vihuela3 music can be played on an ordinary tenor guitar without transcription if you tune the third
string to f sharp, because these instruments had six courses which is in principle the same number of strings as that of
the guitar. It is true that the most common renaissance lute and the vihuela were tuned (approximately) a minor third
higher than the tenor guitar. But with a capotasto at either the second or the third fret, and if you lower the tuning of
the third string half a note, the guitar has the same tuning as the early renaissance lute and the vihuela, that is g1 d1
a f c G.

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Born February 24, 1912, and deceased April 21, 1993

Double course = each string course consists of two strings, stretched closely together. Is also called double strung.
Vihuela = Spanish guitar-like instrument tuned like a renaissance lute, used in the 16th century.

It is to be noted that the tuning of the renaissance lute and that of the vihuela are relative, so it is impossible to
determine an absolute pitch. For instance, Luys Miln writes in El Maestro (1536): Take the highest string course and
tighten it as much as it can stand. Then you tune the other string courses after it.
The sizes of renaissance lutes and vihuelas varied, and so did the tuning which was dependant on scale length, string
quality, and to a certain extent on the temperature and air humidity at the time of the tuning.
As I came home from Basel in 1961 I borrowed from Georg a so called Requinto guitar that was tuned a1 e1 h g
d A. I retuned it g1 d1 a f c G, and so I got the same tuning as the renaissance lute and the vihuela.
Consequently, I did not need to make a detour via transcriptions of music for renaissance lute and vihuela, but I could
play this music directly from the original source.
When I became more and more absorbed in the lute litterature, I encountered new problems which were already
present in the Elizabethan lute, which had one or two extra bass strings. I asked Georg to build a terz guitar equipped
with single strings and extra bass strings. The first specimen of a terz guitar tuned as a lute was built in 1962 and it had
nine strings, which means that it had six main strings g1 d1 a f c G, and three extra bass strings tuned
diatonically down from the sixth string: (G) = F E flat D. These bass strings could also be tuned differently. On this
instrument I could play the entire Elizabethan repertoire without transcription, and even other lute music written for
lutes with 6 9 courses.
However, new problems arose when I tackled the early Italian baroque music written for the archiliuto, or theorbo
that is an extended lute with 11 13 string courses in renaissance tuning. It was thus equipped with 5 7 extra bass
courses.
In 1965 Georg built a ten string guitar tuned g1 d1 a f c G/F E flat D C. At that point in time, the
construction had gone so far away from the original form (the terz guitar) that we renamed it alto guitar considering
the tuning of the six main strings ( g1 d1 a f c G), which is the same as that of the most common renaissance
lute, which is called alto lute.
In 1966 Georg built a tenor guitar with five extra bass strings tuned e1 b g d A E/D C B1 A1 G1.
Then we found that its larger body gave it a deeper and more mellow sound, even if it was tuned like an alto guitar
with a capotasto behind the third fret: g1 d1 a f c G/F E flat D C B1 flat.
The same year Georg built, among other things, an alto guitar with 11 strings and larger body and shorter scale (57
cm). It was then that he made the cutaway on the treble side of the body to improve the playability in higher positions.
That year Georg also built a 13 string alto guitar tuned g1 d1 a f c G/F E flat D C B1 flat A1 G1.
No guitar had had so many strings before. Of course, it brought about new problems, and Georg experimented with
different bracings, tops and scale lengths etc.
Now there are alto guitars with 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 and even 14strings. The most common one has 11 strings (1966).
Guitars with more than 6 strings are certainly no novelty. They existed during the 19th century when Napoleon Coste
(1806 1883) played a 7 string guitar and Johan Kasper Mertz (1806 1856) a 10 string guitar. Coste's and Mertz'
guitars were however tenor guitars equipped with extra bass strings, and they do not have much in common with
Bolin's alto guitar, which is tuned like an archiliuto, that is to say a minor third higher than the tenor guitar and with
the major third in the tuning between the third and fourth strings and not between the second and third strings like the
tenor guitar. In certain arrangements, however, it can be convenient to tune the alto guitar with the major third between
the second and third strings (guitar tuning).

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The purpose of the alto guitar is primarily that guitarists, without having to change their plucking technique, shall be
able to play music for vihuela, renaissance lute, and renaissance tuned extended lutes (archiliutos) without transcription
and in a way that is more true to the original. Moreover it is possible, owing to the extra bass strings, to play music for
baroque tuned lute (f1 d1 a f d A G F E D C B1 A1) true to the original.
The alto guitar has not only affected my own choice of repertoire it has had a far-reaching effect on my pedagogical
activity. You can more easily access the lute literature when you avoid the time consuming work with transcription.
You can even play directly from the original tablatures if you like. You go to the well4 and drink fresh water. This has
meant, at least to me, great benefits. Nowadays, with few exceptions, I always start from the original. This has, in its
turn, meant that many of my pupils have paid more attention to the older epochs than they would have done otherwise.
An example of such a pupil is Gran Sllscher, who has paved the way for the popularity of the alto guitar in the
whole world, with his brilliant Bach interpretations on alto guitar. Three more of my many talented pupils have made
valuable contributions, for instance Gunnar Spjuth and Gunnar Hansson have used the alto guitar and made many fine
transcriptions for the instrument. Another one is Anders Miolin who has made (alto) guitar arrangements of piano
music by Eric Satie (1869 1925). Yet another of my pupils is Brje Sandquist who has made many fine arrangements
for alto guitar. Even composers have taken an interest in the alto guitar, among them Daniel Brtz who has composed a
ballade for alto guitar.
The cooperation between Georg and myself has concerned not only the alto guitar, but the alto guitar is the innovation
that has drawn most attention in the world. Other innovations which I have contributed to are the tenor guitar with 11
strings, the treble guitar (1982) with 8 strings tuned b1 f1 sharp d1 a e B - A G, and the 6 string bass guitar
tuned g d A F C G1.
I also followed Georg's work with the tonbord5 which gives low volume instruments a natural amplification.
Tonvggar and tontak6 are developments from the tonbord which aim at improving the acoustics of the room
itself. These inventions are outside my province, but I am happy that I participated when they were implemented.

2.1 Technical playing instructions

There are differents schools of playing technique. The technique that is described in the most common guitar schools
can generally, regarding playing on the six main strings, be used on alto guitar. For playing on the extra bass strings
and damping them, there is however a need for additional techniques. (see item 2.2 below).
Here I would like to describe how I regard classical guitar technique broadly, and more specifically the special
technique needed to play the alto guitar.
I believe that a high quality education demands building an interpretatory technique, that is an instrumental technique
that always puts priority on the musical expression. There is a need for a clear idea of how to interpret before starting
the study of instrumental technique. The connection between idea and execution must be developed so that the
performed result fully corresponds to the idea. That is why technique can never be separated from interpretation in
musical studies.
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Well and source are the same word in Swedish (klla) - translator's note.
Tonbord = tone board, an amplifier/loudspeaker where a guitar top like wooden construction emits the sound - translator's
note.
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Tonvggar and tontak = tone walls and tone ceilings - translator's note.
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It should be a matter of course that students of music are to taught to have a greater musical and artistic awareness, and
not only to be competent instrumentalists. Fast and loud play is easily measured, and therefore often given precedence.
To shape music with artistic awareness, with a technique that manifests itself only in the perfect clarity of the
execution, is more difficult but makes us happier.
To get a clear idea of how you want to interpret, you need, among other things, knowledge of the notation and
execution practice of the different epochs, plus a mature understanding of music. In his or her interpretation a musician
must present a carefully prepared and complete form. In order to attain impact, this form must be deeply rooted in the
artistic conviction of the individual. Research within the repertoire in question is therefore a means of attaining this
form, never a goal in itself. The collection of objective facts is not enough! The application of all knowledge must be
done with adjustment to the the individual's will of expression, subjective musical way of thinking, and technical
competence.
This is about research with artistic overtones, a search for beauty rather than objective truth.

2.2 Technical playing instructions

Sitting position
Concerning sitting position, players have lately and to an increasing extent started to use a support device that is
screwed on to the body of the guitar and then rests on the left thigh. This is in order to achieve a natural sitting position
with both feet on the same level, firmly placed on the floor. Serious occupational injuries, which often strike guitarists
in the form of back trouble and motor disturbances of both hands, can be avoided if you use this thigh support
instead of a footstool.

Striking the strings

You pluck the string with the nail, pull it, and release it. The loudness of the tone depends on how hard you have
pulled the string. The term striking is misleading. You do not actually strike the string you seize it, pull it, and
release it without changing the tension of the string when you release it (do not jerk the string).
If you change the tension of the string when you release it, then there is a conflict between two incompatible forces,
namely the own will of the tense string to return to its original position, and the power of the striking finger which,
through an extra jerk, incorrectly forces the string in the opposite direction.
To achieve a good tone quality it is thus important to pull the string only to a certain point (you pull it more if you
want a loud tone and less if you want a quiet tone) and then release it without changing the tension of the string at the
moment you leave the string. Remember the rule: the least possible movement, the greatest possible relaxation.
This plucking technique makes it possible to emphasize any part you want in a polyphonic movement. You pull the
string on which the part in question is played more than the other strings. This description is in principle valid for both
free stroke (tirando) and rest stroke (apoyando).

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Rest stroke:
Pull the string with the finger nail towards the nearest lower string. Without changing the tension of the string when
the fingernail leaves the string, the finger falls and rests against the nearest underlying string. With thumb rest stroke,
the thumb nail slides towards the nearest overlying string and rests there.

Free stroke:
With free stroke the finger goes free from the underlying string, and with thumb rest stroke free from the overlying
string.

Timbre (striking points):

Sulla tastiera: the string is struck at the fretboard, which gives a soft (dolce) tone.
Sul ponticello: the string is struck at the bridge which gives a nasal tone.

Striking angles:
The string can be struck in different directions. Upwards from the guitar top gives a more nasal sound (used with
ponticello playing), and downwards towards the underlying string gives a softer sound (used with sulla tastiera
playing). With free stroke you should try to attain a downwards strike, but without touching the underlying string.
The two types of timbre, sulla tastiera and sul ponticello, can thus be emphasized through striking angles.

Articulation (tone striking, and the connection of tones)

a) Legato = bound: for guitar this is is a technical term for tones produced by the left hand only, an attempt to imitate
the genuine legato where the tones are connected to each other without a new attack, which is impossible on guitar.
Upgoing legato: for instance
(Illustration)

In this example c is struck as usual, and d is produced with the third finger of the left
hand, which is hammered down between the second and the third fret so that the tone d rings.

Downgoing legato: for instance

(Illustration)

In this example d is struck as usual, and after that the third finger of the left hand
pulls the string sideways and releases it so that c rings.

b) Portato = carried, softly struck tones, only slightly separated

c) Non legato = a little more sharply struck tones, slightly separated
d) Staccato = short, separated tones with intermediate pauses
e) Staccatissimo = very short tones, separated by longer pauses

f) Pizzicato (bow term) = with pizzicato a bow musician plucks the string with a finger instead of using the bow. On
guitar, pizzicato means that the string is damped with the little finger side of the right hand over the bridge, and the
string is (most often) struck with the pad of the thumb, the sound then resembles the pizzicato of bow musicians.
The different types of articulation are noted in the following way.
(Illustration)

More terms concerning articulation exist, e g martellato = hammering, tenuto = sustained,

marcato = refers to both articulation and character notation.

Character notations
Character notations like for instance, afetto = with a warm feeling, agito = agitated, con brio = lively, ardent, cantabile
= singable, and more, are notations which give information on how the composer wants the character of the music to
be.

Play on the extra bass strings and damping these strings

Due to the great number of strings of the alto guitar, damping gets more complicated than with an ordinary 6 string
guitar. This concerns not only the direct damping of struck strings, but also damping of overtones ringing in resonance,
from the great number of strings.
To be able to damp effectively, you need to know the overtone series of each string, so you can damp undesired
lingering notes quickly. However, lingering overtones which are harmonically acceptable do not always need to be
damped.
S3 = major third
5 = perfect fifth
L7 = minor seventh
8 = octave
9 = ninth

(Illustration)

The overtone series of the strings of the alto guitar (NOTE! Transposed tuning)

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Damping technique:
Total damping:

The thumb side of the right hand is put over all the strings.
The left hand can also be used for damping.

Partial damping:
With movement step by step on loose bass strings, for instance
(Illustration)
The tones are damped with the side of the right thumb at the same time as the thumb nail seizes the string above to
prepare the next tone.
With downgoing movement step by step on loose bass strings, for instance
(Illustration)
is damped with the right thumb which damps afterwards by striking the tone B and falling towards the string above
(rest stroke) and thereby damping the previous tone etc. All bass strings which vibrate freely, that is the strings number
7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, can be damped with the thumb side of the right hand. Be careful to change the hand position as little
as possible.

Learn to interprete the score of the music

It is of course important to understand all the information that a music score can give, both technically and, most
important, musically. In parallell with instrumental studies, you should study music theory, harmony, form theory,
notation, and execution practice, plus musical terminology. Knowledge is not art, but it is necessary for a consummate
artistic interpretation.
The repertoire of the alto guitarist is primarily renaissance and baroque music, but also later music in transcription or
arrangement. As a basis for the choice of repertoire, the following repertoire plan can be used.

3.1 Short history of instruments

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the lute was one of the most common instruments, and it was used as a solo,
accompaniment, and ensemble instrument. In addition to the ordinary lute, shaped as a half pear, the musicians of
Spain and Italy used the guitar-like vihuela, which was tuned in the same way.
During the latter half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century, there were also extended lutes,

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that is lutes which in addition to the six main strings were equipped with 1 7 freely vibrating courses of bass strings.
Different lutes and vihuelas could certainly be tuned at different pitches, but in principle the tuning was the same, that
is a fourth/third tuning with the third in the middle: perfect 4, perfect 4, major 3, perfect 4, perfect 4.
On the early European lute the first (highest) and sometimes also the second string were single, while the others were
double. The second and third string courses were tuned in unison, while the fourth, fifth, and sixth courses were tuned
in octave. On the Elisabethan lute and on the vihuela all strings courses were tuned in unison.
The alto guitar was designed to make it possible to play music for renaissance tuned lutes and vihuelas, and extended
lutes, more authentically. That music is notated in Italian, Spanish, German, and French tablature from the period 1507
to 1650. The earliest tablature we know is Octavianus Petrucci's Intabulatura de Lauto Primo, Secundo, Terso and
Quarto, Venice 1507 1511. The latest known tablature publication for a renaissance-tuned lute is Il Liuto di
Bernardo Gianoncelli detto il Bernardello, Venice 1650.
Different lute tunings taken from: Syntagma Musicum (1615/29) by Michael Praetorius (1571/73 ? - 1621). Note: the
pitch is relative and double courses were used.

(Illustration)

= Small octave lute. Could be tuned one tone higher.

(Illustration)

= Small treble lute.

(Illustration)

= Treble lute.

(Illustration)

= Alto lute (cf. terz and alto guitars).

(Illustration)

= Tenor lute (cf. tenor or standard guitar).

(Illustration)

= Bass lute.

(Illustration)

= Large bass lute.

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During the late renaissance and the baroque era there were many types of extended lutes with different tunings and
number of strings. The most common solo lute with extra bass strings was the liuto atiorbato or archiliuto. It was
tuned like this:
(Illustration)

Scordatura tunings (retunings) existed for both the main strings and in particular the extra bass strings. Renaissance
tuning has been the prototype of the tuning of the alto guitar. The only difference is that the alto guitar has single
strings across all the courses (cf. baroque lute tuning).

3.2 Vihuela tunings

Luys Miln writes in the preface of El Maestro (Valencia 1535): If the vihuela is large, take the first (string course)
more thick than thin, and if it is small then take the first more thin than thick; and when this is done, raise the first as
high as it can stand, and then tune the other string courses in relation to the first one.
From this it may be concluded that the vihuela existed in various sizes, and that the tuning was relative. No absolute
pitch can be determined. This means that the absolute pitch was dependant on the dimensions and quality of the
strings, the scale length of the instrument, and to some extent on the temperature and the air humidity on the time of
the tuning. This is also valid for all lute tunings during the renaissance. However, other musicians worked with relative
tunings. Juan Bermudo, Franciscan monk and music theorist, states in his Declaracin de instrumentos musicales, that
his contemporary vihuela players often imagined (imaginan) the sixth string course as gamaut, which means that the
G-tuning was, besides the A-tuning, the most common relative tuning with the vihuelists (see relative tunings).
With Miln, Mudarra, and Fuenllana there are no direct tuning instructions for relative pitch, but Valderrbano and
Daza describe 8 different tunings, Narvez 6, and Pisador 4.
It is hardly probable that 8 vihuelas with different tunings were used. The tunings were relative and worked rather like
a tonal orientation, thus, clefs put at the beginning of each piece of music, were part of the tonal information.

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Relative vihuela tunings

(Table with illustrations)

The only direct information on how vihuelas of different sizes could be tuned in relation to each other we find in
Valderrbanos Silva de Sirenas, Libro IV. In that book there are duets for differently tuned vihuelas, that is for two
vihuelas tuned in unison, or for two vihuelas tuned at a distance of a third, fourth or fifth. If we start with Valderrbano
s eight different tunings, we have two alternatives.
Either we start from D (= number 7)7 or from E (= number 6). If we start from D we get the tunings
D F G A (= the tunings 7, 5, 3, and 2). Since we guitarists are used to E-tuned instruments, I have chosen to start
from E. Then we get the following tunings, which may well have been the most common absolute vihuela tunings:

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The numbers in this paragraph refer to the table above translator's remark.

(Illustration)

Cf. treble guitar (Bolin) and small treble lute (Praetorius).

(Illustration)

Cf. treble lute (Praetorius).

(Illustration)

Cf. alto lute and alto guitar.

(Illustration)

Cf. tenor lute and ordinary tenor guitar.

For a transcription of tablature, it is convenient to start from E-tuning, since this tuning differs from ordinary guitar
tuning only by the third string being tuned to f sharp instead of g.
The symmetric fourth-third-tuning - perfect 4, perfect 4, major 3, perfect 4, perfect 4 was called temple comn (=
ordinary tuning) by the Spaniards. Fuenllana and Pisador also used destemple (= retuning) which means lowering
the sixth string by a tone: perfect 4, perfect 4, major 3, perfect 4, perfect 5. In addition to 6 course vihuelas
Bermudo also describes a 7 course vihuela: vihuela de siepte rdenes. Moreover there were two different tunings for
4 course guitar and one tuning for 5 course guitar.
Quotation from Declaracin de instrumentos musicales (Osuna 1555) by Juan Bermudo:
If you wish to alter a vihuela to a 'Guitarra a los Nuevos', then remove the highest and the lowest string course. The
four remaining string courses are the same as on a 'Guitarra a los Nuevos'. If you want to make a vihuela from a
guitarra, then add a sixth and a first string course.
Accordingly, a Guitarra a los Nuevos had the same intervals between the string courses as the four inner courses of a
vihuela - perfect 4, major 3, perfect 4. The other tuning for 4 course guitar was perfect 5, major 3, perfect 4 =
guitarra al temple viejo ( temple viejo = old tuning, temple nuevo = new tuning). Before the first piece for Guitarra
al temple viejo in Tres libros de msica en cifra para vihuela, Alonso Mudarra recommends, Bordn en la quarta
(=the fourth string course in octave). This recommendation is not repeated before the pieces for Guitarra a los
Nuevos which follow immediately in the book, but probably the recommendation is valid also for them. On the
contrary, Fuenllana does not recommend bordn en la quarta.
The 5 course guitar = guitarra de cinqo rdenes or vihuela de cinqo rdenes was tuned
perfect 4, perfect 4, major 3, perfect 4.

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Summary of renaissance tunings for 4 and 5 course guitars

(Illustration)

= Guitarra a los Nuevos

(Illustration)

= Guitarra al temple viejo

(Illustration)

= Guitarra de cinqo rdenes

These tunings are chosen to facilitate transcription to ordinary guitar. The renaissance guitar probably had a higher
pitch, but what is of interest here is the interval relation between the string courses. With a capotasto you can then vary
the pitch (cf. baroque guitar tuning).

TRANSCRIPTION:
Music for 6 course renaissance lute and 6 course vihuela can, without change, be played on an ordinary tenor guitar
with the third string tuned to f sharp. With a capotasto you can vary the pitch. Music for extended lute can be
transcribed for tenor guitar, but then all notes below the sixth string must be transposed up or omitted.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1

About Altoguitar: Om Altgitarrens Tillkomst

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Renaissance Music 1505 1620:

2.1 Anonymous,
2.2 Spinaccino, Franscesco
2.3 Dalza, Joan Ambrosio
2.4 Dalza, Joan Ambrosio
2.5 Dalza, Joan Ambrosio
2.6 Dalza, Joan Ambrosio
2.7 Dalza, Joan Ambrosio
2.8 Capirola, Vincenzo
2.9 Capirola, Vincenzo
2.10 Attaingnant, Pierre
2.11 Attaingnant, Pierre
2.12 Attaingnant, Pierre
2.13 Milano, Franscesco da
2.14 Milano, Franscesco da
2.15 Milano, Franscesco da
2.16 Milano, Franscesco da
2.17 Milano, Franscesco da
2.18 Milano, Franscesco da
2.19 Neusidler, Hans
2.20 Neusidler, Hans
2.21 Neusidler, Hans
2.22 Neusidler, Hans
2.23 Milan, Luys
2.24 Milan, Luys
2.25 Milan, Luys
2.26 Mudarra, Alonso
2.27 Mudarra, Alonso
2.28 Mudarra, Alonso
2.29 Narvaez, Luys de
2.30 Narvaez, Luys de
2.31 Valderrabano, Enriques de
2.32 Fiorentino, Perino
2.33 Fuenilana, Miguel de
2.34 Dlugoraj, Alberti
2.35 Holborne, Anthony
2.36 Dowland, John
2.37 Dowland, John
2.38 Dowland, John
2.39 Dowland, John
2.40 Dowland, John
2.41 Dowland, John
2.42 Dowland, John
2.43 Dowland, John
2.44 Dowland, John
2.45 Dowland, John
2.46 Dowland, John
2.47 Dowland, John
2.48 Robinson, Thomas
2.49 Robinson, Thomas
2.50 Robinson, Thomas
2.51 Robinson, Thomas
2.52 Morley, Thomas
2.53 Pilkington, Francis
2.54 Pilkington, Francis
2.55 Pilkington, Francis
2.56 Anonymous
2.57 Waisselius, Mattheus
2.58 Romanus, Laurencini
2.59 Romanus, Laurencini
2.60 Galilei, Michelangelo
2.61 Kapsberger, Giovanni
2.62 Kapsberger, Giovanni
2.63 Pietro, Paulo
2.64 Pietro, Paulo
2.65 Ballard, Robert
2.66 Ballard, Robert
2.67 Ballard, Robert

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1557-1603
1570-1638
1570-1638
1570-1638
1591
1603
1603
1620
1611
1611
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Catala
Jene Fay (Duett)
Tastar il Corde
Recercar
Pavana alla Venetiana
Calata alla Spagnola
Piva
Recercar
Padoana Veneziena
Recoupe
Tourdion
Gaillarde
Ricercare
Ricercare
Fantasia
Ricercare
Ricercare
Ricercare
Preambel
In Liebes Brunst
Ein Welscher Tanz Wascha Mesa
Der Hupff auff
Fantasia I
Fantasia III
Fantasia XXII
Gallarda
Fantasia V
Pavanas de Alexandre
Cancion del Emperador
Guardame las vacas (Quatro Differencias)
Musica para Discantar (Duett)
Fantasia
Tiento del primero tono
Villanella
Galliard
Preludium
Semper Dowland, semper dolens
Fantasie n VII
Piper's Pavane
Captain Digorie Piper, his Galliard
Lachrimae
The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard
Mrs Winters Jump
The Frog Galliard
Tarleton's Riserrectione
A Piece without Title
What if a Day
Bell Vedere
Go from my Window
The Queen's Gigue
A Galliard
Pauin
Georg Pilkington's Funeral
Mrs Anne Harcourt's Galliard
Greensleeves
Greensleeves
Deutcher Tanz
Preludium
Fantasia
Toccata I
Toccata n 2
Toccata n 3
Capricio Chromatico
Volta detta la Furiosa
Entre de Luths
Ballet de Mr le Dauphin
Quatre Branles de Villages

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Baroque Music 1674 1757:

3.1 Sanz, Gaspar
3.2 Sans, Gaspar
3.3 Roncalli, Ludovici
3.4 Vise, Robert de
3.5 Bittner, J.
3.6 Bittner, J.
3.7 Bittner, J.
3.8 Bittner, J.
3.9 Bittner, J.
3.10 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.11 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.12 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.13 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.14 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.15 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.16 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.17 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.18 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.19 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.20 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.21 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.22 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.23 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.24 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.25 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.26 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.27 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.28 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.29 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.30 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.31 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.32 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.33 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.34 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.35 Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
3.36 Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
3.37 Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
3.38 Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
3.39 Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
3.40 Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
3.41 Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
3.42 Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
3.43 Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
3.44 Teleman, Georg Philip
3.45 Teleman, Georg Philip
3.46 Siedel, Ferdinand
3.47 Baron, Ernst Gottlieb
3.48 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

1674
1674
1692
1660-1720
1682
1682
1682
1682
1682
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1685-1750
1686-1750
1686-1750
1686-1750
1686-1750
1686-1750
1686-1750
1686-1750
1686-1750
1686-1750
1681-1767
1681-1767
1757
1696-1760
1756-1791

Pavanas por la D
Espaoletas
Gavota
Gigue en Sol
Svit i G moll: Preludium
Svit i G moll: Allemande
Svit i G moll: Courante
Svit i G moll: Sarabande
Svit i G moll: Passacaille
Prelude in C moll pour la Lute
Siciliano ur Violinsonata n 1
Sarabande & Double ur Violinpartita n 1
Sarabande ur Cellosvit n 5
Grave ur Violinsonata n 2
Sarabande ur Cellosvit n 2
Menuett 1 & 2 ur Cellosvit n 2
Sarabande ur Cellosvit n 3
Boure 1 & 2 ur Cello svit n 3
Sarabande ur Cellosvit n 6
Gavotte 1 & 2 ur Cellosvit n 6
Cellosvit n 1 (BWV 1007): Prlude
Cellosvit n 1 (BWV 1007): Allemande
Cellosvit n 1 (BWV 1007): Courante
Cellosvit n 1 (BWV 1007): Sarabande
Cellosvit n 1 (BWV 1007): Menuett 1 & 2
Cellosvit n 1 (BWV 1007): Gigue
Praeludium, fuga & allegro i Ess dur: Praeludium
Praeludium, fuga & allegro i Ess dur: Fuga
Praeludium, fuga & allegro i Ess dur: Allegro
Toccata orig fr klaver (BWV 914 ): Praeludium
Toccata orig fr klaver (BWV 914 ): Bubbelfuga
Toccata orig fr klaver (BWV 914 ): Adagio
Toccata orig fr klaver (BWV 914 ): Fuga
Koral ur Kantat (BWV 147) (2 Altgitarren)
Ciacona i G-moll
Fantasie i C-moll
Tombeau
Prelude
Allemande
Sarabande
Menuett
Gigue
Passacaille i D
Fantasia n 3
Fantasia n 6
Menuett 1 & 2
Aria
Andante (ur K 331)

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Miscellaneous for Altoguitar:

4.1 Johnson, Per Olof
4.2 Johnson, Per Olof
4.3 Johnson, Per Olof
4.4 Johnson, Per Olof
4.5 Johnson, Per Olof
4.6 Johnson, Per Olof
4.7 Johnson, Per Olof
4.8 Johnson, Per Olof
4.9 Chopin, Frederyk
4.10 Satie, Eric
4.11 Satie, Eric
4.12 Satie, Eric
4.13 Svansk Trad
4.14 Svansk Trad
4.15 Svansk Trad

Adventsvit: Koralfrspel
Adventsvit: O du Saliga, O du Heliga
Adventsvit: Gr porten hg, drren bred
Adventsvit: Det r en ros utsprungen
Adventsvit: Variation ver Det r en ros...
Adventsvit: Hosianna
Adventsvit: Susani
Adventsvit: Variation ver Susani
Vals Op 34 n 2 (Duo)
Gymnopdie n 1
Gymnopdie n 2
Gymnopdie n 3
Diker-Janke: Vallat efter Lindahl (Jmtland)
Diker-Janke: Diger-JAnkes Vals (Medelpad)
Diker-Janke: Poska efter Petterson (Jmtland)

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