American Guitar Society, California State University, Northridge, CA






Baroque Guitar


Italian Tablature


French Tablature

 American Guitar Society, AGS, Gregory Newton, president, meets monthly at Cal State Northridge near Los Angeles, California, for guitar recitals and concerts. Meetings promote classical guitar music in the greater Los Angeles area.
Next Meeting:

Saturday, July 12th 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Music 105, Cal State Northridge



Jason Yoshida

Period instrument specialist Jason Yoshida will present an introduction to historical plucked instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque, featuring performance and demonstration of instruments which are the distant relatives of the modern guitar including the vihuela, Baroque Guitar, theorbo and Baroque Lute. Works by Narvaez, Mudarra, de Murcia, Corbetta, Weiss and others.

June 7th Program



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Audio Selections from Program Below*


Vihuela
Luys De Narvaez (b Granada; fl 1526-49)
Selections from "Los seys libros del delphín (Valladolid, 1538/R1980)"
Passeavase el rey moro
Fantasia del Quinto Tono
Guardame Las Vacas
Cancion del Emperador (Mille Regretz - Josquin Desprez)
Alonso Mudarra (b c1510; d Seville, 1 April 1580)
Fantasia que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico* (1:47) from "Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela" (Seville, 1546)
Baroque Guitar
Francesco Corbetta (b Pavia, c1615; d Paris, 1681)
Prelude from "Varii scherzi di sonate, per la chitara" (Brussels, 1648)
Sarabande
Autre Chaconne from "La guitarre royalle dediée au roy de la Grande Bretagne" (Paris, 1671/R1975)
Santiago de Murcia Marionas (b ?Madrid, c1682; d ? Mexico, c1740)
Grave
Gallardas* (4:27)

Baroque Lute
Anonymous
Prelude in F major
Ennemond Gauthier (b Villette, Dauphiné, 1575; d Nèves, nr Villette, 11 Dec 1651)
La Cascade
Anonymous
Prelude in d minor
Ennemond Gauthier
Le Canon
Anonymous
La Cardinalle
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (b Breslau [now Wroc?aw], ?12 Oct 1686; d Dresden, 16 Oct 1750)
Prelude
Chaconne* (2:40)

Theorbo
- Theorbe (Fr.), Chitarrone (It.), Tiorba (It. and Sp.)
Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger (b ?Venice, c1580; d Rome, Jan 1651)
Kapsberger from "Libro IV d'intavolatura di chitarrone" (1640/R1982)
Alessandro Piccinini (b Bologna, 30 Dec 1566; d probably at Bologna, c1638)
Toccata XII from "Intavolatura di liuto, et di chitarrone ..." (Bologna, 1623)
Chiaccona in Partite Variate* (3:26)
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Vihuela - 1987 by Lourdes Uncilla
Baroque Guitar - 2005 by Jack Sanders after Antonio Stradivarius
Baroque Lute - 2006 by Luciano Faria after Hans Frei
Theorbo - 1983 by Robert Meadows


American Guitar Society (AGS), meets first Saturday of the month at Cal State Northridge near Los Angeles for guitar music recitals & concerts. AGS promotes classical guitar music in the Los Angeles area.