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Lute Society Christmas cards are now available for sending to your friends and family, showing a beautiful altarpiece by Gerard David. All profits to the society. See catalogue for details.

Issue 126 of Lute News is now out - see its colour front cover. See a gallery of previous front covers on the publications page, under Lute News back issues.

Next meeting November 17, meeting at The Dutch Church, talk by Nigel North, recital of 6-course lute duets by Nigel North and Michael Gondko, mini-recitals by Martin Shepherd and Musicke in the Ayre - see meetings for details. And come and get Christmas cards, Christmas music, and John Robinson's new edition as a Christmas gift for yourself!

Beginners' lesson - 33 - Robin (piece no.10 from the Lute Society’s ‘40 Easy to Early Intermediate Pieces for Renaissance Lute’), by Lynda Sayce

New Lute Iconography Database - the Lute Iconography Database is a new online resource holding around 2000 images and other depictions of the lute covering over 1000 years of the history of the lute, now available for scholars, players and lute makers and anyone else interested in the history of the lute. Delve in and enjoy!

Summer schools If you haven't booked your lute holiday yet, here are our summer school listings.

New free downloads - Psalm settings, Magnificat and Grace for voice and lute by Roy Marks.

New free downloads - Betrachte meine Seel from St John Passion, J S Bach, BWV 245, No 19 prepared by Wilfred Foxe. Also Aria detta La Frescobalda (Girolamo Frescobaldi) arranged by Wilfred Foxe, also in free downloads

Global map of Lute Society members An exciting new development to help put members in touch with each other. Find out if there are other members near you with our interactive membership map

Recent additions to our free downloads listings:

• A song setting of Miserere, My Maker (Anon) from the Turpyn Book of Lute Songs, by Wilfred Foxe.
• The Dohna Lute Book - a digital facsimile reconstruction of a book of three German tabulatures by Mattheus Waissel: Lautenbuch 1592-12, Tabulatura Allerley [1592]-13 and Tabulatura Guter 1592-14.
• Four Songs from the Book of Common Prayer for voice, lute and viol by Roy Marks.
• The Improvising Lutenist, by Gilbert Isbin - designed to teach improvisation in a contemporary style.

New page covering small ads - lute music for sale.

The Lute Online Resources Portal is now live. Most websites mentioned in the last 15 years of Lute News now have links there, and some of the pages are reasonably complete. Others have only sample content - particularly the composers and sources pages - new material will be added to these each day. You are warmly invited to send in interesting links you think we have missed - let's build a Grand Universal Lute Portal!

Looking for a lute player, accompanist, duet partner, or beginner's 'buddy'? We can help you find a lute player in your area, or for your special event (wedding, banquet, advert etc). We are also starting up a lute buddying scheme to put new players in touch with lute buddies in their area.

For previous news items, see Old news

Recent pages on this website

• Some selected recordings from meetings are now available.
• Back issues of Lute News now available for purchase online. Now you can fill in any missing copies in your collection.
• New pieces on our members' compositions pages - by Steven Watson, Laudon Schuett, Martyn Hodgson, Joaquim Bogunya Chesa and David Protheroe
• Photos of recent Lute Society meetings and events by Pam and Graham Hope - photo gallery - meetings and photo gallery - events. Also updated with gallery of many older photos from our archive going back to 2003.
• Update to our free baroque lute tabulature download page: Intabulations of Lully by Mouton, for 11 Course Baroque Lute.
• The first Lute Society summer school - Early Lute Society Summer Schools remembered by Bill Samson.

New Music Editions

See our catalogue for details and to purchase online:

• Christmas carols for lute and voice, volume 3 in Brian Wright's Musica Natalis series
• Complete works of Marco dall'Aquila
• New stock of CDs, as reviewed and advertised in Lute News
• New works by Gilbert Isbin
• Fun merchandise! Fridge magnets with Old Master paintings of lutes

Contact the secretary

The Secretary, Christopher Goodwin
Southside Cottage, Brook Hill, Albury
Guildford, England GU5 9DJ
Tel: (+44/0)1483 202159

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