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2020 – Volume 55, Nos. 3 & 4

  • A Look to the Left: The Forgotten Hand — Sylvain Bergeron
  • Francesco and the Company He Keeps — Sean Smith
  • Photographing Your Lute — Lynda Sayce
  • Discovering Heinrich Albert (1604–1651) — Mathias Rösel
  • It Isn’t Always a Tieffenbrucker: The Rediscovery and Restoration of the Only (Known) Surviving Lute by Joseph Hellmer (Füssen, 1601) — Sigrun Richter & Nico van der Waals
  • Some Notes on Rasgueado — Monica Hall

2020 – Digital Supplement No. 13, Part 2

Supplement to LSAQ 2020 – Volume 55, Nos. 3 & 4

  • Now Made Easy: Music from the Balcarres Manuscript
  • It Isn’t Always a Tieffenbrucker: More About the Hellmer Lute
    • The Joseph Hellmer Lute in the Lazzari Collection/Flute Museum—Sigrun Richter
    • The Joseph Hellmer Lute as Witness to the Rebirth of Early Music in Italy in the 1960s—Gianni Lazzari
  • Weiss: The Dresden Manuscript (Part 4)—Edited by Douglas Towne

2020 – Digital Supplement No. 13, Part 1

Supplement to LSAQ 2020 – Volume 55, Nos. 3 & 4

  • Fantasias from Intabolatura de Leuto de Diversi Autori—Edited and Transcribed by Sean Smith (French Tablature, Italian Tablature)
  • Intabolatura de Lauto Libro Settimo del Divino Francesco da Milano & Iulio da Modena, 1548—Edited and Transcribed by Sean Smith (French Tablature, Italian Tablature)
  • Appendix—Additional and Alternate Versions of Music in Digital Supplement 12

2020 – Volume 55, Nos. 1 & 2

  • “Loth to Depart”: Remembering Julian Bream, 1933-2020 – Victor Coelho with Memories from Arthur J. Ness, Edward Martin, and Catherine Liddell
  • Frank Wallace: November 22, 1952–June 2, 2020 – David Dolata, Douglas Freundlich, Nancy Knowles, and Joel van Lennep
  • Stephen Barber, Lute Maker: February 3, 1952–September 19, 2020 – Lynda Sayce with Memories from Gary Boye, Dan Winheld, and Denys Stephens
  • Albert Reyerman—The Passing of a Pioneer Publisher — John Griffiths
  • The Rasgueado Technique, Part 6: Trio Rasgueado IV: Cuatrillo — Pablo Zapico
  • Lutes and Plectrums, Nails, Metal Strings: Historical Sources and Considerations — Francesca Torelli
  • Francesco at Fifty — John Griffiths, Mathias Rösel, and Nancy Carlin
  • Laudon Schuett: Composer — Interviewed by Sean Smith
  • The Solo Lute Works of Joanne Maria Matelart — Sean Smith
  • Lutes with Golden Roses — Mathias Rösel

2020 – Digital Supplement No. 12

Supplement to LSAQ 2020 – Volume 55, Nos. 1 & 2

  • Now Made Easy
  • Matelart Intavolatura 1559—Edited and Transcribed by Sean Smith (Italian Tablature)
  • Matelart/Morales Intavolatura 1559 (Italian Tablature)
  • Matelart Intavolatura 1559 (French Tablature)
  • Matelart/Morales Intavolatura 1559 (French Tablature)
  • Weiss: The Dresden Manuscript (Part 3)—Edited by Douglas Towne

2019 – Volume 54, No. 4

  • The Rasgueado Technique, Part 5: Introduction to Historical Rasgueados: Trillo and Repicco — Pablo Zapico
  • “House of the Rising Sun” for Baroque Lute — Daniel Estrem
  • John York — Interviewed by Nancy Carlin
  • Curious Concordances and Dubious Duets: D-Ngm Ms. 33748-1 — Nancy Carlin
  • Pegasus and the Unicorn to take Wing . . . Lute Makers on the Move — Lynda Sayce
  • The Duets of Giovanni Terzi — Sean Smith

2019 – Volume 54, No. 2&3

  • The Rasgueado Technique, Part 4: Trio (Section 2) — Pablo Zapico
  • Mark Cudek: Musician, Teacher, and Administrator — Interviewed by Sean Smith
  • A Lute Music Database — Peter Steur and Markus Lutz
  • On the Identity of Jane Pickering — André Nieuwlaat
  • Sylvain Bergeron: Continuo and Celtic Lutenist — Interview by Sean Smith
  • An Introduction to the Trios in the Castelfranco Manuscript — Sean Smith
  • Social Distancing with Music . . . Boccacio’s Decameron (Golito, 1542) — Wolfgang Wiehe
  • Lutes and Bandoras as Continuo Instruments in Weimar during the Eighteenth Century — Christian Ahrens
  • Paston Songs—Underexplored and Underplayed Repertoire — Charles Weaver
  • A Digital Transcription of the Castelfranco Manuscript — Gian-Luca Ferme
  • Silvius Leopold Weiss and the Dresden Manuscript — Tim Crawford

2019 – Digital Supplement No. 10

Supplement to LSAQ 2019 – Volume 54, Nos. 2 & 3

  • Lute Trios from the Castelfranco Manuscript—Sean Smith
    • La Moderno
    • La Milanese
    • La Gamba
    • Tuti Parti
    • Gentil madona
    • La Roca el fuso
    • La Verlata
    • La Borroncina
    • L’ongaro
    • Dhe fatte—Ghinolfo Dattari
    • Chi fai dona—Ghinolfo Dattari
    • Miscellaneous Solo Pieces
  • Gloria from Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas by John Taverner, GB-Lbl Add. 29246—Charles Weaver
  • Weiss: The Dresden Manuscript (Part 1)—Douglas Towne
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