THE LUTE SOCIETY

Other Societies

Lute Society of America
Belgian Lute Academy
Dutch Lute Society
Société Française de Luth
German Lute Society
Swedish Guitar and Lute Society
Società Italiana del Liuto
Other Lute Societies - Addresses of societies not yet on WWW
Guild of American Luthiers - They publish a number of lute plans (6c Frei, 6c descant Venere, 8c Dieffopruchar, 10c Dieffopruchar, 7c alto Venere, 13c baroque Dieffopruchar, 14c Sellas archlute) and Robert Lundberg's book Historical Lute Construction
The Viola da Gamba Society
The Lute and Early Guitar Society of Japan
The Internet Lute Society

Ron Andrico/Mignarda - American lutenist, teacher & editor. 
Yair Avidor - Lutenist and theorbo player based in London
Paul Beier - American lutenist now living in Italy.
Bruce Brook - British lutemaker, based in Sussex
Tim Crawford - His current research: tablature processor, Weiss collected works, etc
Peter Croton - American lutenist based in Basel, teacher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
Eric Crouch -Guitar Loot (ancient manuscripts plundered) contains arrangements for classical guitar of renaissance and baroque lute music, with notes about the music and its sources.
Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris - British lutemakers, based in London.
Charivari Agréable
Michael Clasen - The Bay Area Lute Page
David van Edwards - British lutemaker and bowmaker, based in Norwich.
Ed Durbrow - American lutenist living in Japan
José Angel Espejo - Lute maker based in Madrid
Chris Goodwin The English Ayre - Voices and lute for all occasions, Jeni Melia, Chris Goodwin et al
Monica Hall - website about the baroque guitar
Andrew Hartig - Renovata Cythara, the Renaissance Cittern page, plus pages on lute tuning and temperament
David Harvey - Professional classical guitarist and computer wiz.
Jacob Heringman - American lutenist based in London
Liz Kenny - British lutenist, professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London
Arnaud Lachambre's two French language blogs:
cistres.over-blog.com and arbrerouge.over-blog.com
Jacob Lindberg - Leading Swedish lutenist, professor at the Royal College of Music in London
Rob MacKillop - "Lutars and lexicographers for an independent Scotland!"
Andrew Maginley - American Lutenist based in London
Federico Marincola - "Playing the Lute since 1977 - Online since 1994". Editor of "LuteBot Quarterly", available free by e-mail.

The Lute Mailing List

• Join the lute mailing list, send e-mail to lute-request@cs.dartmouth.edu .  Be sure to put the word "subscribe" on the first line of your message if you want to join the list. Note that this address is a robot that signs you up to the lute mailing list. The robot does not answer questions about lutes or anything else. Further information: Wayne Cripps
• If you wish to post your own article, send it to lute@cs.dartmouth.edu

If you want to try out your Spanish you can join the vihue-lista discussion group, to be found at  http://www.onelist.com

Publishers

CNRS - then look at Catalogue - Discipline: Musicologie for lute publications
Editions Orphée
Chanterelle Editions
Lyre Music Publications
Mignarda Editions
Tree Edition
Ut Orpheus
Editions Minkoff
Severinus Press

Software and music archives Also see the Free Music on the WWW page.

Fronimo tablature software:
Wayne Cripps' TAB program
Alain Veylit's Django
Lute tablature archive at Dartmouth (postscript files from TAB)
Mark Wheeler's Fronimo page - includes tablature files
 

Other useful sites

Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "The Lute Project" - ABC Classic FM  The Lute Project website now features live concert footage of four new lute compositions, as well as interviews and examples of Lute and Theorbo repertoire as performed by master Lutenist, Tommie Andersson. In addition to the 4 new compositions, Tommie Andersson also performs: Anthony Holborne Alessandro Piccinini Robert Ballard
www.AllGuitarists.com Community edited guitar news
Chitarrone, theorbo and Archlute   Robert Spencer's groundbreaking 1976 article from Early Music magazine, now made available on the web by David van Edwards with kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Directory of lute players:  co-ordinated by Alain Veylit.  See also Alain's ELF e-publications site for Gaultier, Folger and others.
Dublin Guitar Festival www.guitarfestivalofireland.com -- from 30/6/04 to 4/7/04 in Dublin city centre, featuring John Williams, Berta Rojas and
Clive Carroll, amongst many others
Green Man Press publications include Twenty-one Lute songs or Duets by Robert Jones, in three volumes.
Hitsquad Musician Network -- an amazing collection of free and shareware tuners to run on your computer.
Mancat Fretted Instrument Construction Course Fretted Instrument Construction Course at the Manchester College of Arts and Technology
Marco Fodella foundation Win a scholarship to study for a year in Milan!  Applications for 2002/3 must be submitted by April 02.
Musical America  www.musicalamerica.com
Alfonso Marin Lopez-Salazar and Valeria Mignaco
Julia Craig-McFeely's thesis English Lute Manuscripts and Scribes 1530-1630. Alternate html version
TABLATURES FOR THE LUTE, VIHUELA, GUITAR, AND CITTERN - "This is an experimental database of printed tablatures for plucked-string instruments from 1500-1599. It is primarily concerned with bibliographical information relating to Lute, Vihuela, Guitar, and Cittern tablatures; it also contains information on three lesser-known instruments: the Bandora, the Mandora, and the Orpharion."
Technical drawings of musical instruments - "This is a list of drawings published by the 25 museums who have participated in the project to microfilm technical drawings of musical instruments, organised by Hague Gemeentemuseum, Netherlands."
Brian Jordan's music shop in Cambridge
Kingham Made-to-Measure Cases: casemakers to the lute world
Jacks, Pipes & Hammers, Scout Bottom Farm, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, HX7 5JS, tel: 01422 882751 Fax 886157, [Produces lute/guitar catalogue and facsimile catalogues, can supply  music by post]
Hopkinsonsmith.com: Yes, indeed
David van Edwards' list of suppliers of timber, tools etc
http://www.wayland.ndo.co.uk/mulliner page on the Thomas Mulliner and his "Queen of Scots Galliard from the Mulliner Book

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