Offer,Poulton, D: A Tutor for the Renaissance Lute

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