Music

Many is the hour that Old Tom spent below decks on the cold stormy North Sea wiling away the time in story and song. This page is all about the music, in all of it's forms, both vocal and instruments. Thoughts specific to performance have their own page.

• Songs

• Guitars and other Strings

  • The earliest surviving published guitar music is by Alonso Mudarra, published in 1546. His surviving music is on IMSLP here.

    • My transcriptions of his guitar works are here

  • Michael Fink's essay Stringing and Tuning the Rennaissance 4-Course Guitar

  • The surviving 4- and 5-course guitar music.

• Drums and Other Percussion

  • The most common drum in the world

    • Tar

    • The earliest snare drum, the Bendir

    • The Persian Daff

    • The Riqq

  • The Doum (Tek Kah) Song: Framedrumming 101

• Keyboard Instruments

  • Clavichord or WikiPedia's broader article

  • Harpsichord

  • Late in Period the Regal appeared

• A small but growing collection of music links

• A seriously opinionated list of things all musicians need.