This manual is a guide to the study of the Renaissance lute taking the student on a step-by-step journey through technical matters and exercises of increasing difficulty. It is aimed at both the beginner and those who would like to improve their own technique. Special attention has been given to those who have specialized in guitar so where necessary some important differences between the techniques of the two instruments have been underlined. All the material has been set out following a rational approach to the various challenges. To this end I thought it useful to write many of the exercises myself especially those at the beginning of the course. I hope toguide the student from the technical basics to a level sufficient for playing music of intermediate difficulty. Of course any material regarding technique will help the student progress to higher levels. The main areas covered are: hand positions according to Renaissance practice; study of appropriate sonority; development of contrapuntal sensitivity; idiomatic techniques; introduction to the different Renaissance musical forms; recognition of different interrelational forms.

A practical guide for beginning and advanced lutenists- Serdoura Miguel Method for the Baroque Lute. A practical guide for beginning and advanced lutenists This method for the Baroque Lute can provide you with the technical and musical foundations required for a solid and comprehensive approach to playing the baroque lute. That is indeed the purpose and challenge of this book: to reach out to as many lute-lovers as possible and give them the opportunity to express themselves via the baroque lute however advanced they may be in their musical education. Its audience includes not just those who have never played a musical instrument but alsoseasoned guitarists desirous of initiation into the mysteries of the baroque lute.

Scales and Arpeggios for Viol by Biordi.