The Lute Online Resources Portal (LORP): Renaissance and Baroque Guitar

RENAISSANCE GUITAR WEBSITES

The Chanterelle editions of the sought-after Gorlier-Morlaye and Adrian Le Roy French 16th century guitar books are out of print, but the Lute Society library has copies; the Tree Edition print of Pierre Phalese, Selectissimae Elegantissimaque Guiterna Carmina (1570) can be downloaded free of charge www.lutesociety.org/pages/tree-edition-files

It is worth noting some interest among ukulele players in the renaissance guitar, related in history and identical in tuning,
see: renaissance-ukukele.blogspot.com/2019/09/english-renaissance-guitar-music-from.html?m=1 and iloveclassicalukulele.com and samanthamuir.com

BAROQUE GUITAR WEBSITES

- A list of historical sources of 5-course guitar music, with downloadable facsimiles where available can be found at the Lute Library, now archived to: web.archive.org/web/20160313130717/www.lutelibrary.com/print-sources/instrument/5c-guitar
- Anonymous guitar-tabulature, used by Nathanael Diesel. www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/gks-4_1879.html
- Alexander Dean, thesis on alfabeto and 17th century harmony: urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId=10524
- Gavin Emery's Baroque Guitar site, now archived to: web.archive.org/web/20070816170352/www.baroqueguitar.net/
- Monica Hall's pages: monicahall.co.uk/
- Monica Hall's translations of instructions for baroque guitar: www.lutesociety.org/pages/baroque-guitar
- Early Guitar and Vihuela network: earlyguitar.ning.com/
- Gerard Rebour’s pages, with information on Robert de Visee: g.rebours.free.fr/index.html
- Tony Chalkley’s guitar and viola da gamba page, with baroque guitar tab downloads: tony.c.pagesperso-orange.fr/fretful/BarGuit.htm
- Practical Woodworker magazine had a series of articles 'Build your own baroque guitar' from June 2004.
- Yaron Naor Youtube film of building a baroque guitar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlwta1G2lBU
- Siguenza, Centro de la Vihuela de Mano y la Guitarra Española “José Luis Romanillos”: romanillos.org/
- A selection of baroque guitar sources published by Tree Edition can be downloaded free of charge from the Tree Edition pages of the Lute Society website: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Lgc7cNYrFrq5LqUP21L2wxH326Z4CVKw