A method for the Renaissance Lute by Peter Croton
A method for Renaissance lute by Peter Croton, an American lute player who has been teaching at the Schola Cantorum in Basel for many years. Peter Croton is also president of the Deutsche Lautengesellschaft.
There is a supplement on the archlute or archiliuto, an instrument with the same tuning but with a more extensive bass register. This method uses both the French tablature with letters and the Italian tablature with numbers.
To fully comprehend the method, Peter Croton has put some videos on Youtube in which he shows exactly what he means with all the technical exercises he describes. Images with sound still say more than words alone.
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This method is for beginners, including young people, as well as at ‘the lute player for years’ who still wants to brush up on his technique. Croton actually starts from the voice, the accents that we use every day when speaking or singing. He uses historical sources as musical examples and also tells us about the rhetoric that goes with this music. The arm, wrist and finger movements must be taught as efficiently as possible from an anatomical ergonomic point of view, everyone plays from their own personal physiognomy. Finally, there is also the mental training that is needed to control and steer the whole thing.
The book has been published in the didactic music series of Le Luth Doré.
Method for the Baroque Lute – Miguel Serdoura
A practical guide for beginning and advanced lutenists
Easy Lute Pieces vol.1 – Gilbert Isbin
This book is a collection – for both children and adults – of original easy-to learn pieces that are highly enjoyable and accessible with singable melodies, easy harmonies and rhythms. It is designed for beginners to early intermediate players.The compositions are written solely into the first and/or second position. These pieces can be played in a recital. Playing a concert of easy pieces will help you to become a better performer.
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10 Compositions for Solo Lute, Vol.3 – Gilbert Isbin
10 modern lute pieces in an accessible contemporary style for six course lute, calling for intermediate to advanced technique.
Published by the Lute Society
Review ’10 Compositions For Solo Lute Vol3′ in Lauten-Info 1/2016 by Joachim Lüdkte
Brian Wright Compositions
- A Chinese Lachrimae : Seven Songs of Sorrow for voice and renaissance lute (2001)
- Stabat Mater for voice and renaissance lute (2017)
- Meditations on the Hymn: Ave Maris Stella for voice and renaissance lute (2018)
The three books are available at the English Lute Society www.lutesoc.co.uk
Twenty-one pieces by John Dowland
arranged for lute trio (GGD) with two easy extra parts (GG) to be added ad lib. by Stewart McCoy
Here are some of Dowland’s best-known pieces – Lachrimae, The Frog Galliard, and others – together with some of his less well-known ones like The Shoemaker’s Wife and Thomas Collier’s Galliard. For players of more modest ability, there are also two extra parts which provide simple chords and an easy melody line, which may be added to the trio or played together as a duet. Ideal for lute playing days, early music courses, or any occasion when lutenists simply want to have fun playing together.
Set of five part-books: EUR 29 + Air mail: EUR 7
Luitboek van Thysius
New NLV/KVNM facsimile edition of the Lute Book of Thysius was launched on June 7, 2009. It has been published with hardcover in three volumes: one with concordances, bibliography and musicological and biographical articles, the other two volumes contain all the music, 907 pieces in total, in French tablature (admittedly 7 lines, which takes some getting used to).
Very clear reproduction, most music is playable on a 7-choir lute, only the pieces of a later date go up to 10-choir with low D-flat. The technical level is certainly achievable for a good amateur, there are even very easy beginner pieces in it.
Pierre Phalèse was one of the most important music printers in the Low Countries. Jan Burgers edited the hundreds of lute works published by Phalèse over the course of three decades between 1545 and 1580. In his lute books, he included pieces by the best players from all over Europe, such as Francesco da Milano, Luys de Narvaez, Albert de Rippe, Jean-Paul Paladin, Melchior Neusidler and Valentin Bakfark, but also works by lutenists (mostly anonymous) from his own country. Until now, this monument of sixteenth-century lute literature had not received the attention it deserves, neither from scholars nor players. It is hoped that this edition can help to remedy this situation.
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Chacona y otras obras de Johann Sebastian Bach
(BWV 996, 998, 999, 1001 y 1004)
[for baroque guitar]
editadas y estudiadas por THOMAS SCHMITT
(= deleite del alma, vol. II)
Fantasia que contrahaze la vihuela de Alonso Mudarra
by Michel Armoric