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2026 – 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

2026 – Digital Supplement No. 27

Supplement to LSAQ 2026 – Vol. 60, Nos. 3 & 4

  • “A Woman’s Instrument”? John Dowland’s Lute Music and its Female Performers c.1600 Student Pieces by Dowland — Sara Salloum
  • Music from the Kremsmünster Lute Mauscripts — Peter P. M. Steur
  • Some Thoughts on Lex Eisenhardt’s Article “Robert de Visée and the French Tuning” — Monica Hall
  • Making Sense of Spinacino’s Intabulations — (Part 6) — Sean Smith
  • From the Vaults Thomas Morley, Meantone & Howard Mayer Brown — Sean Smith
  • Introducing the Padoana — Sean Smith

2026 – Volume 60, Nos. 1 & 2

In this issue:

  • Joel van Lennep, Luthier 1941–2025 — Chris Henriksen, Hopkinson Smith, Seth Warner, Michael Barrett, Jim Meandors, and Catherine Liddell
  • Reviewing the Time Signature in “Conde claros” by Enriquez Valderrabano — Sean Smith
  • The Birth of a New Piece for Solo Theorbo, Between Player and Composer — Francesca Torelli & Ivan Fowler
  • Tribulations of a Doctor from Basel (1528–1586) and of his Lute Book — Jean-Marie Poirier
  • Robert de Visée and French Guitar Tuning — Lex Eisenhardt
  • The Swedish Lute — Anders Ericson
  • Making Sense of Spinacino’s Intabulations (Part 5) Spelunking with Spinacino Continued: “Jay pris amours” and “Helogerons nous” — Sean Smith
  • The New LSA Education Hub — Andrew Flory

2026 – Digital Supplement No. 26

Supplement to LSAQ 2026 – Vol. 60, Nos. 1 & 2

  • Contents of Wecker’s Lute Book and Duet Concordances in Other Sources — Jean-Marie Poirier
  • Now Made Easy — A One-Person Duet from Conde Claros Enriquez Valderrabano — Sean Smith
  • Paralìa — Ivan Fowler for Francesca Torelli
  • The Swedish Lute — Anders Erickson
  • Making Sense of Spinacino’s Intabulations — (Part 5) — Sean Smith
  • Pieces from the “Balcarres Manuscript,” (Part 13) — Pieces in Sharp Tuning
  • Pieces from the “Balcarres Manuscript” (Part 13) — Transcribed for 10-Course Lute

2025 – Volume 59, No. 4

In this issue:

  • The Inner Workings of Kapsperger’s Fifth Lute Toccata — Seth Dempsey
  • Interview with Howard Bass & Jeremy Bass — Laudon Schuett
  • Conde Claros — Marsh Ms.
  • Lute Society of America Local Chapter Roundup — Laudon Schuett
  • Making Sense of Spinacino’s Intabulations (Part 4) “Cent mille ecus” and “Malor me bat” — Sean Smith
  • LSA Year-End Financial Statement

2025 – Digital Supplement No. 25

Supplement to LSAQ 2025 – Volume 59, No. 4

  • Now Made Easy Pieces An Easy Duet for a Single Player — Sean Smith
  • The Inner Workings of Kapsperger’s Fifth Lute Toccata
  • Making Sense of Spinacino’s Intabulations (Part 4) — Sean Smith
  • Pieces from the “Balcarres Manuscript,” (Part 10) Pieces in D Minor Tuning — Nancy Carlin
  • Pieces in Sharp Tuning
  • Pieces from the “Balcarres Manuscript,” (Part 10) Transcribed for 10-Course Lute — Nancy Carlin
  • Pieces Originally in Sharp Tuning

2024 – Volume 59, No. 3

In this issue:

  • A or A Prime? — Sean Smith
  • Playing Basso Continuo on the Baroque Lute (Part 2) — Joachim Held
  • Making Sense of Spinacino’s Intabulations (Part 3) — Sean Smith
  • Now Made Easy: Pieces from the “Margeret Board Lute Book” — Andrew Flory
  • Finger Puzzles: Analytical Play, a “New” Approach to Slow Practice — Laudon Schuett
  • Five Questions for Daniel Yost — Interviewed by Anna F. Porcaro

2024 – Digital Supplement No. 24

Supplement to LSAQ 2024 – Volume 59, No. 3

  • Now Made Easy Pieces from the “Margeret Board Lute Book” — Edited and Arranged by Andrew Flory
  • Original Versions from the “Margeret Board Lute Book”
  • Five Questions for Daniel Yost (in Spanish) — Interviewed by Anna F. Porcaro
  • A or A Prime? — Sean Smith
  • Contemporary Music for the Lute (Part 2) Pieces by Ed Durbrow and Laudon Schuett
  • Making Sense of Spinacino’s Intabulations (Part 3) — Sean Smith
  • Pieces from the “Balcarres Manuscript,” (Part 9) D Minor Tuning — Nancy Carlin
  • Pieces from the “Balcarres Manuscript,” (Part 9) Transcribed for 10-Course Lute — Nancy Carlin

2024 – Volume 59, Nos. 1 & 2

In this issue:

  • Peter Croton — Looking Back and Ahead, Interviewed by Nancy Carlin
  • Contemporary Music for Lute: Contradiction or Natural Evolution? — Silvia Amato
  • Playing Basso Continuo on the Baroque Lute (Part 1) — Joachim Held
  • “Tota Pulchra es Amica Mea” — Paul Beier
  • Making Sense of Spinacino’s Intabulations (Part 2) — Sean Smith

2024 – Digital Supplement No. 23

Supplement to LSAQ 2024 – Volume 59, Nos. 1 & 2

  • Now Made Easy Pieces Explore German Tablature Pieces Selected by Brad Rice
  • Contemporary Music for the Lute Divisions on a Ground for Two Lutes by Suzanne Bloch
  • Pieces by Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
  • Pieces from the “Balcarres Manuscript” (Part 8) D Minor Tuning — Nancy Carlin
  • Pieces from the “Balcarres Manuscript” (Part 8) Transcribed for 10-Course Lute — Nancy Carlin
  • Pieces by Laudon Schuett
  • Pieces by Ed Durbrow
  • Looking Back — Peter Croton
  • Making Sense of Spinacino’s Intabulations — Part 2 by Sean Smith
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