Read the notation as if you were playing in the original key on an A 
lute. Any experience reading guitar notation (except for the 2 staff 
actual octave pitch) one simply pretends to be back on the guitar, 
but with an additional high a string. Of course A tuned theorbists 
would also find this practical. Transposing tab also an option, it's 
all just symbols.

Dan


>    A singer has asked me to accompany her on "Come heavy sleep" and "Time
>    stands still."  The problem is, she wants to sing them in F (down a
>    whole step) because it's a better range for her voice.  Has anyone
>    tried transposing them down?  Any thoughts on how well (or not) this
>    works?
>    I could tune down to 415 but I'm not sure she'll go for that.
>    thanks,
>    Caroline

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