• 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, acc.# 17.1764
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Anonymous guitar, mid 18th c, acc.# 17.1756
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Mandolino by Benedetto Gualzatta, Rome, 1724, acc.# 1992.1
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Lute by Andreas Berr, Vienna, 1699, acc.# 1986.7
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Guitar by Jacopo Mosca Cavelli, Perugia, 1725, acc.# 2003.76
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Guitar by Jean-Baptiste Champion, France, ca. 1790, acc.# 17.1753
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Guitar by Jacopo Checchucci, Livorno, 1628
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Arch-cittern by Remerus Liessem, 1757, acc.# 17.1749
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA – Guitar by Nicholas Alexandre Voboam, Paris, 1680, acc.# 1993.576
• 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 – Treble lute, D. G., Venice, early 16th century
• 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 – Guitar by Domenico Sellas, Venice, ca. 1670
• National Music Museum, Vermillion SD – Guitar 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 FoMRHI Bulletin on line in PDF format.  This journal contains many articles relating to historical lute construction and stringing.  The complete tables of contents are posted on a separate page where they can be searched easily in your browser.
• “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.  A similar reference work in German, “Handbuch der Notationskunde” by Johannes Wolf (Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, 1919), is freely available in many formats, including several for e-readers. Lute tablature is treated in Chapter 2, beginning on p. 35.
• 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)
• “Giovanni Antonio Terzi and the Lute Intabulations of late sixteenth-century Italy” by Suzanne E. Court; a dissertation analyzing the lute works of Giovanni Antonio Terzi, which are contained in his two tablature collections published in Venice in 1593 and 1599. The second volume of the dissertation includes 45 transcriptions of intabulations and fantasias by Terzi and his contemporaries.
• “The five-course guitar and seventeenth-century harmony:  Alfabeto and Italian song” by Alexander Dean; a dissertation for the Ph. D. degree at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Rochester NY, 2009. (Six PDF files)
• Bibliography of musicological publications by John Griffiths, with emphasis on the vihuela.  Many of the entries are linked to electronic copies.
• 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.
• A Catalog of Manuscripts for the Baroque Lute, being compiled by Peter Steur, with input from Markus Lutz.
• 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 some of the pieces are appropriate for performance on medieval lute or gittern.
• The Motet Catalog, indexing more than 50,000 motets and mass proper incipits in printed and manuscript anthologies originating between 1475 and 1600.  Many, though not yet all single-composer prints are included.
• English Renaissance Lute Practice as Reflected in Robert Dowland’s Varietie of Lute Lessons, dissertation by Robert J. Nolde, Rice University, Houston TX, 1984.
• 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.
• Duo Chambure performing a vihuela duet, an intabulation of Cancion de sibiuit by Adrian Willaert, from the collection Silva da sirenas published in 1547 by Enríques de Valderrábano.
• Nigel North performing John Dowland (written ca. 1600).
• Robert Barto performing eighteenth century lute music by Silvius Leopold Weiss.
• Robert Barto – an Allegro movement from a Weiss Sonata.
• Ronn McFarlane performing two of his own contemporary compositions.

Events of Interest and Commercial Sources of Lute-Related Materials

• Amherst Early Music Festival
• AquilaUSA, the U.S. representative for Aquila Corde Armoniche – Gut and synthetic strings.
• Boston Catlines – Strings of gut, nylon or nylgut and fretgut for early instruments.
• Chambure Vihuela Quartet – Debut recording now available
• La mi Cinta Dorada – straps for early string instruments
• David Fitzpatrick Lutes & Guitars – Ionia, Michigan.
• Richard Fletcher – Renaissance and Baroque Lutes, Archlutes and Theorbos.
• Guild of American Luthiers – Publishers of Historical Lute Construction by Robert Lundberg.
• Jacks, Pipes and Hammers – Lute Facsimiles from Severinus Press.
• Dan Larson, Luthier – Lutes, guitars and vihuelas.
• The Lute Society – Facsimile of Cambridge Dd.2.11 published.
• Lyre Music Publications:  Specializing in all types of music for Renaissance Lute.
• Seicento Notenversand – Music for Renaissance and Baroque Lute, Theorbo, Archlute, Mandora & Baroque Guitar.
• ToneGnome – Record your next CD with us.
• Tree Edition – Music for the Lute in facsimile and modern editions.
• Turtels & Twins Press – The Ground Bass Compendium & other Editions for Renaissance Lute.
• Vancouver Early Music Programme & Festival

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)
• Mississippi Academy of Ancient Music (Jackson MS)
• 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 & Seattle Baroque Orchestra
• Southern California Early Music Society
• Toronto Early Music Centre
• Early Music Vancouver
• Early Music DC (Washington DC)

• American Recorder Society
• Early Music America
• Ars Antigua Presents
• 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