The vihuela music of the Spanish Renaissance period was published between 1536 and 1576 in seven books. The most accomplished and important composers of the literature are presented in The Vihuela Collection: Luis Milan (1536), Luis de Narvaez (1538) and Alonso Mudarra (1546). These composers established the early guitar as a focus of composition in dance and variation forms, transcriptions and elaborations of vocal music, and abstract fantasia writing. Their adventurous and technically sophisticated style is a milestone in the development of Western instrumental music, with some of the first variation forms ever to appear in print. The native Iberian spirit, tinged with a blend of North African Islamic elements and the vitality of the Italian Renaissance, endows the music with its emotional and musical maturity. Biography: Clive Titmuss was born in Ilford, England in 1951, and came to Canada in 1955. He went to the University of Calgary...