Dear lutenists, especially those of us, who play continuo, I happened to find in the net a real treasure of 16th century French songs; hundreds of French (folk?) songs printed in the beginning of 18th century by Christophe Ballard:
"A complete facsimile of all three volumes of Brunetes ou petits airs tendres avec les doubles et la basse continue; mélées de chansons a danser published by Christophe Ballard in Paris in 1703, 1704 and 1711." http://www.cowderoy.net/brunetes/index.html And there is also "A complete facsimile of volume one ofvTendresses Bacchiques ou Duo et Trio melez de petits airs tendres ou à boire des meilleurs auteurs published by Christophe Ballard in Paris in 1712." http://www.cowderoy.net/tendresses/ The quality of the pages and especially the quality of the images (high res jpg-files) is _very_ good. And so is the quality of the music. Endless amount of mainly continuo equipped pieces. And then my obligatory advertisement ;-) : I found the place while searching the vocal models of some anonymous theorbo solo arrangements of songs in ms. Res-1106. The two found were Ou este Vous allé (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzxj1ZQgN9g, http://www.vimeo.com/5024134) L'autre Jour m'allant promener (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vp8h2zcYa0, http://www.vimeo.com/6143993) And (as is my habit) the theorbo tabulstures are in http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Tiorba/deVisee/ All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
