> I have been cruising the net for tab. Just not > much luck in finding anything that I've heard recorded.
There are a few websites with lute tab on them, but you will have much better luck with early music stores. Most of the renaissance lute repetoire has been published in facsimile by Broude Brothers and others. The english printed sources have recently been put online by the EEBO project, you can see catalogs of it online, but full access is only available at an EEBO participating institution such as the British Museum, the NYPL etc. Try a college music library for journals such as Early Music, Early Music America, Lute, Lute Society of America, Galpin Society..., the ads will give you luthiers, string makers, music publishers. The stacks will give you editions and bibliographical works such as HM Brown, _Instrumental Music Published before 1600_ Brown is worth owning, not sure if it is still in print, tho it has been kept in print for several decades. Join the Lute Society (and the LSA). The LS regular mailings include several sheets of music from ms sources, members can buy assortments of reprints of those. Sometimes familiar music, more often odd bits. Brown lists a huge amount of the music you are interested in, some of it will be found on shelf in that library in the editions he cites. Unfortunately Brown did the bulk of his work in the aftermath of WW-II, and his modern x-refs are dated and miss much of the publishing that has followed. Thankfully we have the internet now, and small publishers such as tree editions can be explored that way. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
