Adrian Le Roy Fifth Book of Guitar Tablature Classical Guitar - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.810020

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.