Most music for the English guitar, or wire-strung guittar, is very
simple: just a single melodic line and almost always in C major. An
early tutor for the instrument suggests that the player could add a bit
more harmony but probably many players just played the single lines.
Straube published a collection of guittar music with some of the most
difficult pieces in the repertoire but in a section devoted to country
dances he just has single lines.
Here are six little tunes from a publication of Thomas Habgood in 1760:
Nancy's Choice
Because I was a bonny lad
Hornpipe
We are all well at Canterbury
Will O' the wisp
The Chaplet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6PEFzBPtI
Stuart
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