Next meeting - September 11 at the Dutch Church. The theme of the day is Thomas Mace, the man and his music, with talks by Benjamin Narvey, and David van Edwards, and we hope also for mini-recitals reflecting Mace's interest in the viol, from Liam Byrne, and Andreas Linos, and the day will be crowned with the presentation of a 12 course lute in French flat tuning, typical of Mace's day, newly made by David van Edwards and students, for the Society's hire fleet, on which Matthew Spring will play one of Mace's suites. Finally Rosemary Hodgson will give the afternoon's main recital, of music by Dowland, John Johnson, Bacheler, Robinson, Ferrabosco, Rosseter and Danyel. For details see Meetings
July 2010: New Beginners' lesson 5 - by Lynda Sayce: Prelude by Le Roy
June 2010: 5 new articles originally published in Lute news, are now available under our advice section: Comparison of Baroque Lute tutors, English renaissance lute music, Is your lute set up well?, the Old renaissance lute tutor books, and an Introduction to Lute Resources on the Internet
On Saturday June 26th we had our Annual Lute Society Party, hosted by Joyce and John Reeve.
Issue 93 of Lute News is now out (see its colour front cover).
April 2010: New lessons for beginners, by Lynda Sayce.
We are pleased to announce the music for broken consort (treble viol or violin, flute or recorder, bass viol, lute, cittern and bandora) by Matthew Holmes is now available as a free download. See Matthew Holmes Consorts for further details.
O Happie Ground - a new playing edition of trebles and grounds. There is also freely available downloadable grounds that can be played on a computer to accompany yourself as you play the trebles.
