Rercercata Bella Collaboration with Elizabeth Pallett

Rercercata Bella, an anonymous Renaissance lute work from the Siena Lute Book. Performance, sheet music, lesson, and discussion for classical guitar or lute. This is a collaboration with Elizabeth Pallett via Luteweb on YouTube (go subscribe) and Luteweb.com. I had a wonderful time working with Elizabeth on this project and learned so much from her, I hope you do too. Our discussion shows how there can be endless discussions and discovery in these works and collaboration with lute player must happen more often!

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My pdf sheet music edition

Notation edition and a separate french tablature and Italian tablature edition.

Links

Recercata Bella (Anonymous Renaissance Lute Work) See the video for additional info as well as the collaboration videos with lutenist Elizabeth Pallett via her excellent site at luteweb.com and YouTube channel.

Fingered for relative lute tuning on guitar with the 3rd string tuned down to F sharp and optional capo on 3rd fret. My edition comes with a notation edition, French tablature, and Italian tablature edition.

There are two manuscripts for this work. I’ve based this edition on the manuscript from the Siena Lute Book (The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, MS 28.B.39) which is an anthology of over 150 items compiled in Siena, Italy. The other manuscript can be found in the Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris: F-Pn Rés.429, ff. 107v-108v (Italian Tablature Copy c.1560-1565).

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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.

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  1. What a brilliant idea. I hope this is not your last collaboration. I usually avoid guitar music with TABs but this is a definite exception and zI am really looking forward to learning this delightful piece.

    • Keep in mind that all my editions are available as a notation-only score (no tab) and when tab is included it’s at the end of the pdf after the notation. Another thing to note here is that this is lute tablature which is not the same as modern tablature (in case you didn’t know already).

  2. What a wonderful, friendly, informative conversation. I loved it. Can we look forward to more? When will Bradford be getting a lute? Thank you for this.

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