• Cleveland Museum of Art – Tiorbino, anon., 17th century.
• An extensive photographic study of this instrument, done by Ed Greenhood
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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY NY – Chitarrone by David Tecchler, Rome, ca. 1725
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY NY – Lute by Sixtus Rauchwolff or Rauwolf, Augsburg, 1596
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY NY – Matteo Sellas guitar
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY NY – Mandora or chitarrino, anon., ca. 1420
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Anonymous archlute or theorbo
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Anonymous guitar, mid 18th c
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Anonymous mandolino, 1771
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Mandolino by Benedetto Gualzatta, Rome, 1724
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Lute by Andreas Berr, Vienna, 1699
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Guitar by Jacopo Mosca Cavelli, Perugia, 1725
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Guitar by Jacopo Checchucci, Livorno, 1628
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Arch-cittern by Remerus Liessem, 1757
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Guitar by Nicholas Alexandre Voboam, Paris, 1680
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Lute, Padua or Venice, ca. 1600
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Lute by Thomas Edlinger, Prague, 1728
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Mandolino by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1680
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Cittern, Italian, ca. 1550
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Guitar by Matteo Sellas, Venice, ca. 1640
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Guitar by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1700
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Guitars by Domenico Sellas, Venice, ca. 1670 and by Alexandre Voboam, Paris, 1670
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Listing of Lutes in the collection
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Listing of Plucked Strings
• Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments – Lute by Sebastian Schelle, Nürnberg, 1726
• Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments – Thielke Baroque guitar

Lute Art in North American Museums

Resource Materials for Scholarly Research on the Lute

• The Lautenweltadressbuch, compiled by Klaus Martius, a database of historical lutes in museum and private collections.
• The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900 – 1600, by Willi Apel, The Mediaeval Academy Of America, 1949.  Lute tablature notation is treated on pages 54 – 86.
• Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela: An Annotated Bibliography, compiled by Dr. Gary R. Boye
• “English Lute Manuscripts and Scribes 1530-1630” by Julia Craig-McFeeley; a study of the English Lute Manuscripts of the so-called ‘Golden Age’, including a detailed catalogue of the sources.
• “Lute Realizations for the English Cavalier Songs (1630-1670) – A Guide for Performers” by Gus Denhard; a D.M. dissertation at Indiana University, 2006.
• “Mus. Ms. 1511b: A Historical Review of a Lute Manuscript in the Herwarth Collection at the Bavarian Library, Munich” by Douglas William Beasley; a dissertation for the M.M. degree at the University of North Texas, Denton, 2007. (PDF file, 2.03 MB)
• Sources manuscrites en tablature/Manuscript sources in tablature, ca. 1500 – ca. 1800, a project to create a comprehensive index, by title and composer, of all known lute pieces in historical manuscript sources.
• Manuscript Catalog of The British Library, with a useful search engine.
• Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, a listing of facsimiles of manuscripts of medieval music, some of which are available on line – not necessarily lute music, but at least some of the pieces may be performed with lute.
• The Motet Catalog, indexing approximately 33,000 motets and mass proper incipits in printed and manuscript anthologies originating between 1475 and 1600.  Single-composer prints are not yet included.
• An extensive iconography of the lute, compiled by Mary Rasmussen, University of New Hampshire, divided geographically and chronologically:
• Dutch and Flemish, 15th to 16th century.
• Dutch and Flemish, 16th century.
• France, 16th to 17th century.
• Germany, Austria & Switzerland, 15th to 16th century.
• Germany, Austria & Switzerland, mid-16th century.
• Germany, Austria & Switzerland, 16th to 17th century.
• Italy, 15th to 16th century.
• Italy, mid-16th century.
• Italy, 16th to 17th century.
• Recorder Iconography, compiled by Nicholas S. Lander, including many references to lutes or lutenists portrayed in artworks also depicting the recorder.

Audio

• An original lute (1699, later rebuilt) played by Olav Chris Henriksen, as well as an 18th century mandolino and several guitars from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries (requires Flash Player).
• Paul O’Dette playing Giovanni Antonio Terzi, Balletto francese, taken from a concert presented 7 December 2003.
• Hopkinson Smith playing a Bransle de Poictou from the collection of dances published by Pierre Attaingnant in Paris, 1530.
• Hopkinson Smith playing the Adagio of Sonata BWV 1001 in G minor, by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Video

• Asteria performing fifteenth century music.
• Paul O’Dette performing sixteenth century lute music.
• Hopkinson Smith performing sixteenth century vihuela music.
• Nigel North performing John Dowland (written ca. 1600).
• Robert Barto performing eighteenth century lute music.
• Ronn McFarlane performing two of his own contemporary compositions.

Events of Interest and Commercial Sources of Lute-Related Materials

• AquilaUSA, the U.S. representative for Aquila Corde Armoniche – Gut and synthetic strings.
• Berkeley Festival & Exhibition:  2 - 8 June 2008, Berkeley CA
• Boston Catlines – Strings for early instruments and fretgut.
• Ken Brodkey, Lute Maker – Renaissance & Baroque Lutes, Archlutes & Theorbos.
• Lyn Elder – Historically Accurate Lutes, Archlutes, Citterns, Bandoras & Guitars
• David Fitzpatrick – Lutes based on models by Laux Maler.
• Richard Fletcher – Renaissance and Baroque Lutes, Archlutes and Theorbos.
• Guild of American Luthiers – Publishers of Historical Lute Construction by Robert Lundburg.
• Jacks, Pipes and Hammers – Lute Facsimiles from Severinus Press.
• Dan Larson, Luthier – Lutes, guitars and vihuelas.
• The Lute Society – Facsimiles for Baroque and Renaissance Lutes.
• Lyre Music Publications – Masters of Polyphony:  The Music of Conrad Paumann.
• Early Music Week at Pinewoods Camp:  26 June - 3 July 2008, Hank Heijink, lute instructor.
• Seicento Notenversand – Music for Lute, Theorbo, Archlute, Mandora & Baroque Guitar.
• The Lute in Europe.  A History to Delight, by Andreas Schlegel.  Published by TREE-Edition; available through the LSA.

Other North American Sites Related to Historically Informed Performance

• Atlanta Early Music Alliance
• The Arizona Early Music Society
• Bay Area Lute
• Boston Clavichord Society
• Boston Early Music Festival
• Early MusiChicago
• Early Music Colorado
• Early Music in Columbus (Ohio)
• Houston Early Music
• Early Music Now (Milwaukee WI)
• New England Early Music Calendar
• Guild for Early Music (New Jersey/Pennsylvania area)
• The New York Continuo Collective
• Polyphony.com (Calendar for the New York City area)
• Renaissance & Baroque Society of Pittsburgh
• San Diego Early Music Society
• San Francisco Early Music Society
• Early Music Guild of Seattle
• Southern California Area Lute Group
• Southern California Early Music Society
• Toronto Early Music Centre
• Early Music Vancouver
• Early Music DC (Washington DC)

• American Historical Keyboard Society
• American Recorder Society
• Early Music America
• Historic Brass Society
• The Renaissance Cittern
• Historical Harp Society
• Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society
• Natural Trumpet Resource Page
• Organ Historical Society
• Serpent Website
• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
• Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society
• Viola da Gamba Society of America
• Violone – Jerry Fuller's site
• Western Early Keyboard Association