> Anyway, the question of instruments in church has been debated ad > nauseam. It seems that it was fairly common practice in the 16th > century, and that it was widely accepted in the 17th century with the > advent of motets with continuo accompaniment. "The Lute in Christian > Spain" by Diana Poulton in _The Lute_ (Volume 19, 1977) is still a good > source of information on the question of whether the lute was even used > in the Catholic Kingdoms.
The subject line of this thread should have been changed a couple of contributions ago IMO 8) As for lute music in church environment and its counterpart in secular surroundings, the tombeau springs to mind. Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
