Elizabethan Guitar Music

A tune written for the lute but transcribed for the guitar,composer unknown.

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Music

Tags:

• Elizabethan
• sologuitar
• classicalguitar
• groocock
• shakespear
• music
• Guitar

[michealdark]

We didn't learn Renaissance music in my guitar class. We mostly learned Spanish and Rock guitar, and how to play Ode to Joy. I wish we would have learned stuff like this though (considering elements of this kind of music crop up in metal songs like like, like Skyclad, Blackmore's Night, and even Black Sabbath)

[mikegroocockguitar]

@michealdark Your right, quite a few bands in the early 70s took influences from renaissence music.When I fist started to learn to play guitar I used to dream of playing in a rock band ,then I saw john williams on a tv proggramme called pebble mill at one playing some bach ,then that was it for me and 27 years later im still as passionate as ever in learnining and playing all the amazing music wriiten for the classical guitar,though I did learn smoke on the water.

[michealdark]

@mikegroocockguitar I checked out this set of troubadour and minstrel music from the library. The problem is that I can read standard notation for guitar, but only just. If it were in tabs, I could probably learn these songs easily, because the melodies don't look that hard really. As it stands now, it's a lot harder because I'm having to review not location on the fretboard before even starting

[mikegroocockguitar]

@michealdark If you type in ....Declamp guitar.... into a search engine you will come across a classical guitar web site with lots of free downloads and quite a bit of it is in tab form, and there is a lot of ' early music' .

[bclaxer09]

I just started playing the guitar and I love this kind of music any chance you could tell me any hints on how to play something like this?

[mikegroocockguitar]

@bclaxer09 learning to read guitar music and/or tablature and practicing an hour or more per day should give you the skills needed to play this piece and hundreds of others like it,just be patient and enjoy the process and it will happen,all the best.

[liquidplastic62]

Very nice Mike. I get sick of modern music sometimes. It's all so loud and aggressive. There's a purity about unamplified guitar music especially elizabethan.

[verwilliar]

OMG THANKS SO MUCH, i finally found a piece of music i can use for my project in my Shakespeare class. thanks soo much, and that was really good. love how you were into it and all too.

[gemini16th]

Beautiful performance- thank you so much. Sure this is a John Dowland composition. Listen to "John Dowland - Complete Lute Works, Vols. 1-5" by Paul O' Dette (Harmonia Mundi).

[BaronessAnneMarie]

Where can I hear more?

[BaronessAnneMarie]

Bravo! I do so very much enjoy this lovely rendition. Please, accept my appreciation for adding some pleasant culture to youtube. I am most pleased.

[michealdark]

@mikegroocockguitar Thanks, that was incredibly helpful. :)

[EPStagner]

This is wonderful :)

[CFHaggis]

Hi - this sounds like John Dowland's "Mistress Winter's Jump" Mystery solved! I've learned it myself, but to be honest I prefer your version. Where did you get the score?