LSA Quarterly Volume 60, Nos. 3 & 4

In this issue:
Transitions Between Duple and Triple Meter in the English Lute Songbooks, 1597–1622 (Part One)—Christopher Baum Bandora and Orpharion: A Case of Excessive Buzzing and Crooked Frets—Sjon van der Tol Going Electric!—Bor Zuljan Tobias Tietze: Old Lutes, Old Strings and Old French Music—Interviewed by Catherine Liddell “A Woman’s Instrument”? John Dowland’s Lute Music and its Female Players c.1600 — Sara Salloum The Kremsmünster Lute Manuscripts — Peter P. M. Steur Some Thoughts on Lex Eisenhardt’s Article “Robert de Visée and the French Tuning” — Monica Hall Making Sense of Spinacino: (Part 6) “In pace” (“Que vous ma dame”) and “Sidedero” — Sean Smith

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Who was Vidal? — Paul Beier
In and Out of the “White Lion”: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger’s Family Background in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome and Beyond — Lothar Sickel
New Discoveries About Some Professional and Amateur Lutenists in the Dutch Republic (c. 1650 – c. 1700) — Jan W.J.Burgers and François-Pierre Goy

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Welcome to the New LSA Website!

Welcome Visitors! It has been a long time coming, and now patience and effort are rewarded with the launch of this, our NEW WEBSITE! We hope you will find, easily, what you are looking for, and that the value of it will make you want to support the LSA with a...

New “Lutes for Sale” List!

This is the new place to list lutes, theorbos, baroque guitars, citterns, archlutes, medieval lutes, etc., for sale. Anyone can add instruments to this list if they are selling a lute or other lute-family instrument. This is NOT the place to list classical guitars or...

Grant Tomlinson Historical Lute Research Available Right Here!

World class Canadian luthier Grant Tomlinson has collected his lifetime of research materials, photos and data sheets, and has offered them to the LSA via our website. Containing detailed information on over 70 historical lutes in European museums and private...

Letter from the President – Racism and the LSA

Dear Members and Friends, I wish to let you know where the LSA stands in light of the events of recent months that have stirred up an unprecedented and necessary national conversation about systemic racial injustice and the acceleration of the profoundly inhumane...

2020 Lute Fest Cancelled

The situation with regard to the spread of the Covid-19 has resulted in the cancellation of many summer workshops and concert series concurrent with our June Lute Fest week. The Board of Directors regretfully, but out of concern for the well-being of all involved, has...