Ornamented intabulations and derived fantasias: parody, imitatio, and genre in Vincenzo Galilei’s lute arrangments of Alessandro Striggios “Nasce la pena mia”

Jean-Michel Vaccaro in 1981 proposed a four-fold classification of sixteenth-century pieces for solo lute, ordered by the degree to which the composer is constrained by fidelity to a pre-existent model, usually a polyphonic vocal work such as a chanson, madrigal, motet, or mass movement.