The recent discussion here about 5 course lutes reminded me that Marc Lewon recently published several articles on his blog about the pieces in the Wolfenbüttel Lute Tablature, which may be the earliest lute tablature. He has lots of scholarship, and lots of practical advice about playing with a plectrum as well as transcriptions into french tablature (Wolfenbüttel is written in an stroke notation which closely resembles the lute notation illustrated by another 15th century German source).
http://mlewon.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/wolfenbuettel-lute-tablature/ Marc even has a youtube video where he plays one of the pieces: Ich fare do hyn wen eß muß syn (Wolfenbüttel Lute Tablature) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5jGg2o1N1M To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
