Between 1460 and 1620, more music was published for the renaissance lute than for all other instruments combined: some 40,000 pieces spread over more than 600 printed and often also handwritten sources.
The functionally searchable part of the database is on our member’s page. Here you can search for a piece, a book or a composer, and our search functions go even further. For example, do you want to know which and how many madrigals of Orlando di Lasso have been intabulated for lute, or which chansons by Pierre Sandrin are in a specific source? Do you want to know which pieces from Arnt von Aich’s songbook have been arranged for lute, and much more? Then you have to log in to the member page.
The overviews of the Franco-Flemish school and the lute, madrigals, motets, canzonettas, villanellas, the 150 psalms… remain freely accessible.
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Then make a donation to our account BE92 0636 1463 9323 in the name of the Belgian Lute Academy, stating “gift database”
If you can’t find the source you are looking for, maybe the PDF “INDEX” can help. I.e. the Welde manuscript will be found under the letter G. To download this index and use the search function, click on “INDEX” at the bottom of the list.