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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10856	New citharen lessons with perfect tunings of the same, from foure course of strings to fourteene course, euen to trie the sharpest teeth of enuie, with lessons of all sortes, and methodicall instructions for all professors and practitioners of the citharen. By Thomas Robinson, student in all the seuen liberall sciences.	Robinson, Thomas, fl. 1589-1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 21127; ESTC S101592	4,603	98

NEW CITHAREN LESSONS With perfect Tunings of the same from Foure course of Strings to Fourteene course euen to trie the sharpest teeth of Enuie with Lessons of all sortes and methodicall Instructions for all Professors and Practitioners of the CITHAREN By THOMAS ROBINSON Student in all the seuen liberall Sciences The tuning of the Citharen with fourteene course of strings Vnisons ‑ dia pasons ‑ diapasons These seuen with frets are double strung ‑ al the other single ‑ twisted LONDON Printed by William Barley and are to be sold at his Shop in Gracious-streete 1609. Cum Priuilegio TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR WILLIAM CECIL Vicount Cranborne Sonne and Heire to the Right Honourable the Earle of SALISBVRIE and Knight of the Honourable order of the Bathe Thomas Robinson wisheth all happinesse with the increase of all true Honour and Vertue WAlking in my Garden of good will Right Honourable I could find no better Flowers then those that spring from faithful Loue bound with the bond of dutie to make my labours gracious in your thoughts Loue to your Honour sprung from the roote of your Lord and Grandfathers bountifull and most Honourable kindnesse towards my Father who was vntill his dying day his true and obedient Seruant Duetie bindeth me for that I was my selfe sometimes Seruant vnto the Right Honourable THOMAS Earle of Excester your Honours vncle and alwaies haue tasted of the comfortable liberalitie of your Honours Father for whose sake next vnder God I craue your Honours Pardon for this my bold attempt Thus breeding Right Honourable as it were a protection from your Pardon I most humbly leaue you to the Lord and betake my selfe to my Prayers for your Honours health and prosperitie in all condigne dignitie Your Honours to commaund in all dutie Thomas Robinson To the Reader GEntlemen blame me not although J haue beene so long cracking of this nutte sith at last J haue giuen you the sweetest Cornell of my conceited Cithering For first you shall haue strange lessons with strange tunings for the foure stringed Citharen the like neuer found out before for sweetnes and goodnes to play euen an organe kind of play alone also lessons for two to play together withall a third Citharen which inuention was first begun by an Italian in Jtaly but altered and strings augmented by me Containing fourteene course of strings most full sweete and easie for the which Citharen J must remaine a thankeful debter and well willer to a most kind and louing Gentleman and scoller of mine Master Edward Winne an attendant of the Right Honorable ROBERT Earle of Salisburie now Lord high Treasurer of England Thus not forgetting my selfe in remembring my friend J most louingly bid you all Adue Your musicall friend Thomas Robinson A nevv easie and perfect Introduction to the Citharen set foorth both for the learned and them which are vnlearned Scholler GOD giue you good morrow Sir this is the howre and time the which you appointed me to come and keepe and truely sir if it please God that I profit according to your promise by your good instructions you shall not find me vnthankefull Master Welcome good Scholler and truely I haue great hope in you for that I see you so willing and withall I see you haue allready laide hold of one of the best properties which doth belong to a Musitian which is to keepe time likewise if your capacitie be answerable to your desire I doubt not but that you will quickly proue a good Scholler come where is your Citharen and your Booke Scholler Heere sir they bee both Treble Meane Base Tenor. Master It is well done of you you haue Gotten a very good Citharen for it is both faire and good true fretted and easie to play vpon Now in the name of God let vs beginne and first marke as your Citharen lyeth before you with his 4 course of strings so likewise the 4 lines or rules in your booke lye accordingly and represent the same strings as heere you see mentioned And also as the frettes or stoppes of your Citharen extend the whole breadth of the necke of it called the finger boord so euery string hath both the name and vse of the same fret one so well as the other as if you stoppe in the first frette with your forefinger in the treble then it is b in the treble if you stoppe the first frette in the meane then it is b in the meane and if you stoppe the first frette in the basse then it is b in the basse if you stoppe the first frette in the tenor then it is b in the tenor and so of the rest of the stoppes cdef c. but where you see a in any of the strings that string must not be stopped but must be stricken open Scholler Truely this is most plaine and easie for a child of 4 yeeres of age that knoweth but his letters abc may conceiue this as well as one of 20. yeeres old But when shall I beginne to learne to play a lesson Master I will tell you when euen then when you haue gotten all these rules following by heart without booke and also can tune your instrument your selfe Scholler why how if it be this month before I can them by heart shhll I not learne a lesson this month Master No for to learne before you know what why and how were like a Bee moyld in a barrell of honny for how were it possible for you to play well with a good grace comely without making of anticke faces except you first know a rule or reason to guide your hand and body Scholler VVell Sir if it be your will that I shall first learne those rules before I shall learne to play a lesson I am contented to get them by heart for you are my Master and you know what is best to bee done for a Scholler write downe your rules and god willing I will not touch my Citharen vntill I can them perfectly by heart Master I commend you doe as you say and vpon my life you shall very so one attaine to your desire for the Citharen for if you should get false fingring at the first you should be constrained first to learne to forget before it were fit for you to remember which were both a griefe trouble and losse of time and charges Therefore in the name of God marke these rules following The first rule Note that first in stopping of your instrument that you hold out the wrist of your hand for so you shall stoppe both the cleaner and with more ease be the readier to carry your whole hand too and fro at your pleasure The second rule Note that where or in what stop so euer you are stopped with your fore-finger that there in the same stoppe you hold your thombe right ouer against it The third rule Note that in what stoppe so euer you are stopped that you plucke away no finger vntill you needes must The fourth rule Note that in any full