Product Description
These twenty compositions are presented in the same order as
they appeared in the original work published in Paris 1554 by Le Roy et
Ballard. They were transcribed from a facsimile edition of the original manuscript
and every effort has been made to
transcribe the original tablature into modern, easy to play, tablature and
notation. Although written as chansons,
each of the pieces works well as guitar
or ukulele solos.
For the guitar, I recommend placing a capo on the third or fourth fret to approximate the higher pitch
of the Renaissance guitar which was a much smaller instrument than its modern-day equivalent.
The reentrant tuning of the ukulele does not detract too
much from what would otherwise be a faithful
rendition of these chansons. Most of the
pieces sound just fine and, in fact while
testing each piece for playability and checking for mistakes, I had my tenor ukulele close by my side.
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