The book

Lyre-guitar. Etoile charmante, between the 18th and 19th centuries

(64 pages, black and white)

it's subdivided in 12 chapters:
History, Neoclassicism and the lyre-guitar: an evocative aesthetical and musical quest - Early traces of instruments in lyre form - The origins of the lyre-guitar - Models and makers - Structural features -Musical style and favourite forms. Works and composers - Ferdinando Carulli. Compositions for ‘guitar or lyre' - Lyre-guitar: the first guitar with six single strings? Tutor books ‘pour guitare ou lyre' - ‘How to hold the lyre-guitar'. Tuning - Frontispieces and plates from French, Italian and German tutor books - Other instruments in lyre form.

Moroever the book contains one audio cd with:
Ferdinando Carulli, Sonata III op. 21

CD TRACKLIST:
1. I tempo: Allegro Moderato - 6.15
2. II tempo: Romance - Andante Moderato - 2.27
3. III tempo: Rondeau - Allegretto - 4.28


Buy book: for euros 14, excluded shipment expenses

write to:
e.vulpiani@gmail.com
e.vulpiani@libero.it

 Moreover you can buy one book in English (black and white) and one in Italian (color version), with the cd, for 25 euros (excluded shipment expenses)

The book Lyre-guitar. Étoile charmante, between the 18th and 19th century
can be found in:


Biliomediateca dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Auditorium Parco della Musica, via Luciano Berio 3, Roma

Biblioteca del Pontificio Istituto
via di Torre Rossa 21, Roma

Moreover, the Museum of Music in Nice
(Musée de la Musique de Nice - Palais Lascaris, 15 rue Droite, Vieux-Nice)
plays unpublished pieces from the repertory in some of its exhibition halls.