• The goal of guitar168.com and Edition Leyenda is to promote many beautiful and pleasant guitar pieces that are not readily available elsewhere and to advocate multi-string guitars (e.g. 11-string Altoguitar). Edition Leyenda provides many music pieces suitable for multi-string guitars. New files will be added frequently. Please visit us regularly.

   

• For Renaissance pieces, the 3rd string is usually lowered to f#. Capo on the 3rd fret is suggested to play the original pitch. If you have a 10-string guitar, you can tune it to: e,b,f#,d,A,E,D,C,B,A than apply the claw-type capo to the first 6 or 7 strings (Elliott Capo has customer-made 10-string capo), then adjust the other strings, so the tuning of the guitar becomes g,d,a,f,C,G,F,Eb,D.C; suitable for most Renaissance lute (6,7.8 or 10 courses) music (photo). Better yet, you can use an 11-string Altoguitar. It is suitable for all Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. I am using one by Asturias. I even have transcribed/transposed/arranged some modern pieces for Altoguitar. Please contact me if you are interested in these pieces.

   

• The music is set in modern notation and tab with Tabledit software (www.tabledit.com). It is easy and convenient but has limitation to create multiple voices notation. The TEFview software will allow you to view and print the Tabledit files and it's free to download (www.tabledit.com/tefview). I think the modern tab is suitable for aspiring students for Renaissance lute who are frustrated with the old French tablature system.

• Edition Leyenda tries to be practical and thus is not intended to be academic or scholarly. Open string is used liberally.  Most of the left hand fingerings should be obvious for intermediate-level players.

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