A Tutor for the Renaissance Lute

With the benefit of her many years' study of the repertoire and teaching of the instrument, Diana Poulton has completely re-cast her earlier book (An Introduction to Lute Playing, 1961) to produce, in A Tutor for the Renaissance Lute, the most comprehensive method for the lute based on Renaissance precepts. The book will be found equally useful to students working alone – giving clear instructions on all technical matters, progressively introduced according to their difficulty – and to teachers (providing a source of some seventy-five pieces from which to structure their pupils' progress). The advanced student, too, will find that much of the music is suitable for recital programmes.

CONTENTS:

The Instrument
Stringing
Tuning
Some practical advice on tuning
Tablature
Holding the Lute
The right hand
The left hand
The diapasons
Italian tablature
The nexachord
Spanish music and the bihuela
More about Spanish music
Questions
Scales
The use of graces in Renaissance lute music
The performing of graces
Graces in English sources
Intabulations of polyphonic vocal music
The interpretation of signs in the French air de cour
The "half" barré
German tablature
Cifra nueva
The ten-course lute
List of Sources and Modern Editions