Poulton: A Tutor for the Renaissance Lute

A tutor for the complete beginner to the advanced student of 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