With the benefit of her many years' study of the repertoire and teaching of the instrument, Diana Poulton has completely re-cast her earlier book (An Introduction to Lute Playing, 1961) to produce, in A Tutor for the Renaissance Lute, the most comprehensive method for the lute based on Renaissance precepts. The book will be found equally useful to students working alone – giving clear instructions on all technical matters, progressively introduced according to their difficulty – and to teachers ...

• 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 tabla...