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    Bembo to Barbetta: Lutes, Lutenists and Luthiers in Cinquecento Padua
    Griffiths, J ; Cassia, C (Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2023)
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    Cifras y letras: el significado de las tablaturas
    Griffiths, J ; Esteve, E ; Griffiths, J ; Rodilla, F (Reichenberger, 2023)
    Until around 1750, more than 70,000 musical works are preserved in alternative notations to the conventional mensural. These tablatures preserve music for more than forty instruments, including the human voice. For the past almost ten years, we have conducted a research project on this alternative notation, in all its variants, from the widely accepted mainstream forms to the more idiosyncratic and little-used experiments. The extensive study has revealed what all these notations have in common. In this paper we explore the nature of tablature, the essence of its graphic system, the contemporary challenges to renewing the associated terminology, the marginalisation of tablature music from our cultural heritage, and the historiographical problems produced by the near-total exclusion of such a large repertoire from musicological thinking. What we have learned through this project is that tablature is much more than a simple notation for "playing by numbers," it is an alternative way of thinking about music and transmitting it. We have also learned the special functions of tablature, what could be written in tablature that was impossible in conventional notation, and the roles played by these tablatures in the social fabric of music, from their use as scores to facilitating the popular transmission of elite repertoires.
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    Vihuela
    Griffiths, J ; Borghetti, V ; Shephard, T (Brepols, 2023-02-28)
    This book collates 100 exhibits with accompanying essays as an imaginary museum dedicated to the musical cultures of Renaissance Europe, at home and in its global horizons.
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    Historical Pedagogy and the Lute: Education to Match Aspirations
    Griffiths, J ; Griffiths, J ; Wirth, S (Deutsche Lautengesellschaft and Lute Society of America, 2021-11-11)
    Explores the history of institutional lute learning in Europe since 1900; explores the nineteenth-century pedagogy used in conservatorium and university practical tuition and its limitations for teaching early music, and presents an alternate pedagogical methodology based on sixteenth-century Spanish theorist Juan Bermudo.
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    Introducción a "Los seys libros del Delphin"
    Griffiths, J ; Nieto, J (Sociedad de la Vihuela, 2019)
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    Early Vihuelas, Iconography, Organology, Theory and Practice
    Griffiths, J ; Balmer, Y ; Framboisier, A ; Guilloux, F ; Massip, C (Brepols, 2019)
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    La vihuela desde mi ordenador: la musicología y las humanidades digitales
    Griffiths, J ; Lolo, B ; Presas, A (Sociedad, 2018)
    From the viewpoint of my own research, this paper explores one of the largest challenges of the musicology of the future, namely, the possibilities that result from harnessing computing to musicology. The possibilities that arise from the storage of large quantities of data, of creating tools that will permit a limitless number of associative, reconstructive, analytical and cataloguing operations are already starting to change indelibly the face of musicology, together with the ways in which we communicate the fruit of our research. Using my own work to create a digital habitat for everything that pertains to the vihuela, this paper presents a vision of the future by menas of a platform created to gather and assemble all that is known about the renaissance instrument, it music, its players, instrument builders, and consumers, together with a complete collection of documentary information, bibliography and discography. Within this panorama, the paper also reflects on the way in which this projects represents the triangulations of the traditional, linear relationship that separates the historian from his or her readers. It also contextualises the project among the international trends of today’s musicology.
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    Heteroclito Giancarli and his Composizione musicali of 1602
    Griffiths, J ; Colin, M-A (Brepols, 2018)
    The first detailed study of an anthology of lute songs published in 1602 by a lutenist singer who had been active during the last 40 years. The style of the songs reflects tastes and performance practices around 1600. It calls into question the novelty value afforded to the music of the seconda prattica in modern historiography.
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    Songs without words: the motet as solo instrumental music after Trent
    Griffiths, J ; Filippi, DV ; Rodriguez-García, E (Routledge, 2018-08-16)
    By analysing the repertoire itself, but also by studying its material life in books and accounts, in physical places and concrete sonic environments, and by investigating the ways in which the motet was listened to and talked about by ...
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    Singer Songwriters, the Lute, and the Stile nuovo
    Griffiths, JA ; Murata, M ; Fabris, D (Brepols, 2015-01-31)
    Italian Soundscapes: Souvenirs from the Grand Tour, Dinko Fabris, Musical Encounters Public and Private, Margaret Murata, Singer-songwriters, the Lute, and the Stile Nuovo, John Griffiths, High, Middle, and Low: Singing Monteverdi, Richard ...