Duet: Canone & Spagna a due liuti by Francesco da Milano

ByBradford Werner
2018

Canone & Spagna a due liuti by Francesco da Milano (c. 1497–1543) – From the Cavalcanti lute book (1590). Period lute duets arranged for 2 guitars in score format (two pages for each piece). The score includes notation only and is a PDF download. Includes a fingered version for regular guitar tuning and an unfingered version for relative lute tuning or alternative fingering. Thanks to Douglas Hensley for joining me. Youtube Video Link – We are using the unfingered score, and have our 3rd strings tuned to F# (relative lute tuning).

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Videos by Others

Great to hear the amazing Emma Rush and Jesse Luciani playing this duet via split screen.

Also see this lute performance of the Spagna with Emilio Bezzi and Ranato Cadel.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.