Period Sources of Music for Cittern (18th C.)

The following is a table of period printed and manuscript sources of music for cittern 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 Cittern (18th C.)

Over 200 printed books for the 18th century "English guittar" and French cistre/guitthare allemande will eventually be listed here. In the meantime, please see my draft database of Sources of English guittar music. 

Manuscript Music Sources for Cittern (18th C.)

Select manuscripts are listed below. Additional manuscripts can also be found in my draft database of Sources of English guittar music, above.

Bibliographical Sources

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

• Poulopoulos, Panagiotis. The Guittar in the British Isles, 1750-1810. Thesis. University of Edinburgh (2011). [Available at https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/5776.] 

• Van Amersfoort, Jeltine Marijke. Guitars, music, and culture in the Netherlands, 1750-1810. University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis (2023). [Available at https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/482921/]