ITALIAN TABULATURE FOR LUTE: HISTORY, PERFORMANCE AND TRANSCRIPTION
ITALIAN TABULATURE FOR LUTE: HISTORY, PERFORMANCE AND TRANSCRIPTION

Summary/Abstract: Since the beginning of the sixteenth century, with the advent of the musical printing, absolutely all music for the lute has been noted in the tabulature. The lute tablature is an ingenious system, consisting of five or six lines, which indicate to the player the positions of the fingers on the fretboard of the instrument, and above are noted the elements of musical rhythm. Music notation, in tabulature, has advantages and disadvantages. The biggest impediment that a musician may encounter in deciphering and interpreting intabulations for the lute is the impossibility of delimiting the voices within polyphony. This aspect can be solved, in time, by experience and by accumulating knowledge related to the compositional process, first of all, and then by the procedures of transcription into tabulature of the respective works.

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