Period Sources of Music for Cithrinchen (17th/18th C.)

The following is a table of period printed and manuscript sources of music for the Hamburg Cithrinchen sorted by date of publication. Clicking on the links will display the contents for that book. I hope eventually to have links to the contents for all extant prints. If there are any other sources you know of that have been missed, or if you have a correction, please contact me and I will be more than happy to include them.

N.B. A title in brackets { } denotes a lost source.

Printed Music Sources for Cithrinchen (17th C.)

Manuscript Music Sources for Cithrinchen (17th/18th C.)

Bibliographical Sources

• Boye, Gary. Music for the Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (1470-1799). https://music.library.appstate.edu/lute

• Gill, Donald. ‘James Talbot’s Manuscript: V: Plucked Strings: the Wire-Strung Fretted Instruments and the Guitar’, CSJ, 15 (1962), 62–9

• Gill, Donald. "The Seventeenth Century Gittern and the Englisch Zitterlein." The Lute, Vol 35 (1995).

• "James Talbot’s manuscript." Mus.1187. Great Britain: Oxford, Christ Church Library. (c. 1695)

• Michel, Andreas. "Hamburger Cithrinchen." http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/zistern.htm 

• Tyler, James. "Cithrinchen [bell guittern]." New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.

• Ward, John. "Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: notes on the cittern, gittern and guitar in 16th- and 17th-century England." Lute Society Journal 21 (1979-81).