Nicolas Vallet
Le Secret des Muses

Transcribed for Classical Guitar

Instrumentation Classical Guitar
Composer Nicolas Vallet
Editor Paul Mascott
Difficulty Level
(medium)
Edition Sheet Music
Publisher Mel Bay Publications
Order no. MB30889

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Description:

Language: English
Pages: 76
Release: 01.09.2021
Weight: 250 g
Rubric: Transcriptions
Genre: Classical Music
ISBN: 9781513467511

This book of 53 intermediate-level guitar pieces is derived from Le Secret des Muses, a two-volume collection of lute tablature by Nicolas Vallet (c. 1583 - c. 1642). Born in France, by 1614 Vallet had relocated to Amsterdam where he established a dance school and was active as a composer, lute teacher and leader of a consort that played at weddings and festivals.

Le Secret des Muses is among the last published collections of French lute tablature intended for the 10-course Renaissance lute, which was ultimately supplanted by the larger 13-course Baroque model. Most of these pieces consist of traditional European dance forms, but also contains a few settings of popular lute themes and longer works suitable for concert performance are included.

Written in standard notation only with occasional drop-D tuning, these pieces make excellent sight-reading and warmup material as well as historically significant concert selections.