Are You a Lutenist?

One of our own lecturers, Dr Peter Argondizza, has uploaded his paper about lute intabulations and fantasias, onto the academic social media website, Academia.edu. 

You can read it here:-

“Ornamented Intabulations and Derived Fantasias: Parody, Imitatio, and Genre in Vincenzo Galilei’s Lute Arrangements of Alessandro Striggio’s ‘Nasce la pena mia’”

Are you a Lutenist? Digitised Lute Scores for Rare Breed of Musicians

Not many folk play lute, but those that do will be ecstatic to learn that Cambridge University Library has digitised some rare early English lute music, and it's free to access!

Their website announces,

‘Crown jewels’ of English lute music go online

Handwritten copies of scores by composers of English lute music have been digitised in a programme to make a precious legacy available to professional and amateur musicians around the world.

Read more here.