Category Early Music

Early music with classical guitar, lute, theorbo, vihuela and Baroque guitar. Music of the Renaissance and Baroque eras for classical guitar.

Fantasia X by Mudarra for Guitar - Sheet Music or Tab

Fantasia X by Mudarra for Guitar

Fantasía que contrahazee la harpa en la manera de Ludovico by Alonso Mudarra (c.1510–1580). Also known as Fantasia X or No. 10 from Tres libros de música en cifra para vihuela (1546). PDF sheet music edition with both notation-only edition and modern TAB edition. Arranged for guitar, relative…

Matthew McAllister Plays Tarleton’s Riserrectione by Dowland

Matthew McAllister playing from my edition of Tarleton’s Riserrectione (Poulton No. 59) by John Dowland (1563-1626). This comes via his amazing YouTube channel. It’s so fantastic to hear a great pro like McAllister play my score, his playing is so musical…

Rene Izquierdo Plays Prelude BWV 1007 by Bach

Rene Izquierdo plays Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). This comes via Izquierdo’s great YouTube channel. Here he’s trying out a new guitar (only #23) by new on the scene luthier Ric Larsen. Great…

Grade 4 Lesson: Orlando Sleepeth by Dowland

This lesson comes from my book Classical Guitar Repertoire Lessons Grade 4 – Six pieces at the grade four level with dedicated lessons preparing you for each piece. Orlando Sleepeth (Poulton No.61) by John Dowland (1563-1626) – YouTube Video Lesson Link.…

Hideki Yamaya Plays Preludio BWV1006 by Bach on Mandolino

Hideki Yamaya plays the Preludio from Partita for Solo Violin No. 3 in E major BWV 1006 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). Arranged for mandolino (Baroque mandolin) by Hideki Yamaya on a Mandolino by Mel Wong, San Francisco, California 2019.…

Drew Henderson Plays Scarlatti

Canadian guitarist Drew Henderson plays Three Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), originally written for keyboard and arranged by Henderson. This comes via his excellent YouTube channel. He also has the sheet music available. Beautiful playing by Henderson with wonderful ornamentation and rhythmic clarity.…

Thomas Riamon Plays Sarabande, BWV 825 by Bach

French guitarist Thomas Riamon plays the fourth movement, Sarabande from the Harpsichord Partita No. 1, BWV 825 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) on a 2007 Antonio Raya Ferrer guitar. This comes via Guitar Salon International and their YouTube channel. If you follow the…

Matthew Cochran Plays Bach Sonata BWV1003 (Complete)

Matthew Cochran plays Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003 (originally for solo violin) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). This comes via his YouTube channel and recorded at Cathedral Barn in Historic Barns Park, Traverse City MI.. The complete…

Tarleton’s Riserrectione by Dowland for Guitar

Tarleton’s Riserrectione by Dowland for Guitar

Tarleton’s Riserrectione (Poulton No. 59) by John Dowland (1563-1626) – Also called Tarleton’s Resurrection. Originally for lute. Sheet music and TAB for classical guitar. Includes a Notation Only Edition and a Notation + Modern TAB Edition. Left hand fingering. The level is Intermediate…

ARTIS GuitarDuo Play Bach

ARTIS GuitarDuo (Julia and Christian Zielinski) play Capriccio sopra la lontananza del fratello dilettissimo (Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother) BWV 992 B-Dur by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).  This comes via Open Strings Berlin and their amazing Youtube Channel. You can…

Cecilio Perera Plays Dowland

Cecilio Perera plays Lachrimæ Pavane (Flow my Tears) by John Dowland (1563-1626) on a replica Renaissance lute made by Renatus Lechner. Recorded in Salzburg, Austria. This comes via his YouTube channel. I love Dowland and Elizabethan music in general. Lachrimæ, or…

Lorenzo Micheli Plays Piccinini on Theorbo

Italian guitarist and lutenist Lorenzo Micheli plays Corrente prima from Intavolatura di liuto, et di chitarrone. Libro Primo Bologna (1623) by Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638) on theorbo. Filmed in Palazzo Pignano, Italy by Drew Henderson. This comes via Micheli’s fantastic YouTube channel.…