A selection of beginner to intermediate pieces from the Renaissance and early Baroque adapted for the Ukulele or Renaissance Guitar, using musical notation and tablature.

Ancient music written for the modern ukulele ….. None!

Playing ancient music on the ukulele ….. Absolutely!

This collection of beginner to intermediate pieces from the Renaissance and early Baroque periods (from 1500 to 1650) are adapted and arranged for the Ukulele or Renaissance Guitar, using both modern musical notation and tablature. The pieces in this book are ordered by degree of difficulty, starting with those that are easier.  When playing a soprano, concert or tenor ukulele, linear tuning is required (i.e. using a low G string). Notes about the composers are at the back of this book.

Contents:
Calleno costure me (Anonymous)
Bransle de Poitou (Adrian Le Roy)
Dance (Hans Neusidler)
Allemande (Guillaume Morlaye)
Pavaniglia (Carlo Calvi)
Canario (Carlo Calvi)
Bransle (Guillaume Morlaye)
aillarde (Guillaume Morlaye)
Greensleeves (Anonymous)
Almande “La mon amy la” (Adrian Le Roy)
Der Fuggerin Tanz (Melchior Neusidler)
Saltarello (Vincenzo Galileo)
Pavanes I and IV (Luis de Milan)

Recordings of the pieces played at various tempos are posted on SoundCloud (search for The Renaissance Ukulele or Ancient Music for Ukulele).

Please check out the other books in this series “Ancient Music for Ukulele” by visiting our website (ancientmusic4ukulele.com) and/or Facebook page.