THE LUTE SOCIETY

Free Lute Music on the WWW

There is now a huge amount of free lute tablature available for download on the Web. While some of the music may not be edited to the same standards of scholarship as more formal publications it can be very useful. Here is a selection of sources known to the Lute Society webmaster. Contact him to add more.

Among the gems to be found are almost all the Francesco Da Milano fantasias, lots of John Dowland, almost all the Siena Lute Book, most of Terzi, Narvaez, Spinacino and much more.

Much of this music can be printed using the free demo version of the lute tablature program Fronimo, available at: http://www.theaterofmusic.com/fronimo/
 

Allan Alexander Formats: Fronimo
Renaissance
 
Richard Civiol Formats: PDF
Renaissance and Baroque. Includes some transcriptions of complete sources.
 
Fronimo User Group Formats: abctab and PostScript
Renaissance and Baroque
Requires registration
 
Sarge Gerbode's Lute Page Formats: Fronimo, Wayne Cripps's TAB, PDF
Renaissance and Baroque
 
Lute tablature archive at Dartmouth (postscript files from TAB) Note: these files are all ".cgi" format, but if you right click on a " tab source" file name and save it as "Your name.tab" Fronimo will open it correctly.
 
Arthur Ness Works by Marco dall'Aquila (transcription and tablature; in progress), anonymous 18th-century sinfonia from Robert Spencer's library, Johann Friedrich Daube, Fantasye for harp consort by William Lawes.

 

John Robinson's Lute Society editions and other publications. John has produced an enormous body of work for the Lute Society. Back copies of the music supplements are available from the secretary at a nominal cost. We are investigating the feasibility of making this available on-line to Lute Society members.
 
Spinacino Facsimile Excellent colour facsimile of the Spinacino lute book at Le Corpus des Luthistes
Format: PDF

 

Alain Veylit Formats: Django
Renaissance and Baroque
 
Taco Walstra Formats: abctab and PostScript
Renaissance and Baroque
 
Mark Wheeler's Fronimo page - includes tablature files
 
Richard Yates Formats: PDF, StringWalker (= Django), Wayne Cripps's TAB Renaissance
Includes some songs
 

 

 

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