La musica per chitarrone di Giacomo Antonio Pfender. Nuove acquisizioni

A newly discovered monogram present in the preparatory drawing for the title page of a Libro d’intavolatura di chitarrone has allowed the author to attribute to Giacomo Antonio Pfender — a friend of Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger and editor of latter’s Libro primo d’intavolatura di chitarone (1604) — five pieces for chitarrone included in a manuscript, almost certainly datable to the second decade of the seventeenth century, preserved in the Archivio Estense in Modena, and probably another nine pieces included in the same source, previously attributed to Alessandro Piccinini. The article conjectures the origin of the manuscript in the Roman milieu — and not in Modena, as claimed by other scholars — and probably in the circle around Pfender and Kapsperger. The article opens up new glimmers of research on the relationships of musical patronage between Modena and Rome.