The Lute Society: Publishers

Publishers

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Who publishes tabulature for lute and related instruments?

This list is intended for the benefit of retailers, and of lute players, who want to request catalogues, visit websites, or order music. It provides contact details of all music publishers whose current catalogues include one or more tablature publications, and of some of the main specialist sheet music dealers and retailers. It is divided into four sections:

  • lute societies which publish music in tablature
  • publishers with six or more tablature titles in their catalogues
  • publishers with five or fewer tablature publications
  • sheet music dealers who specialise in stocking early music

Several of these dealers issue catalogues: at present the most comprehensive list of lute (and guitar) music in print is to be found at the website of Tabulatura (which can be reached directly, or via Kenneth Sparr’s homepage, via the Lute Society’s website). We would like to thank Kenneth Sparr for his help in compiling this list.

If you know of any publishers who have been left of the list or can fill in missing details, please contact the secretary so the list can be amended. Why not give a copy of this list to your local music retailer?

Lute societies which publish sheet music in tablature

Belgian Lute Academy, c/o Greet Schamp, Prins Boudewijnlaan 133, 2650 Edegem, Belgium Tel: ++32/0 3 289 01 19

www.lute-academy.be/

Lute Society of America, PO Box 6499, Concord CA 94524, USA. Tel: ++1 925 686 5800 /fax: 680 2582

www.LuteSocietyofAmerica.org

Deutsche Lautengesellschaft, book orders: Ursula Domning, Prinzenkamp 9, D-49751 Sögel, Germany. Tel: ++49/0 5952 3508


www.lautengesellschaft.de

NLV (Dutch Lute Society), book orders: Joost van Poppel, Zonstraat 41, 4818 NE Breda, Netherlands Tel: ++31 (76) 5208569

www.nederlandseluitvereniging.nl

Société Française de Luth, 48 Rue Bargue, 75015 Paris, France. Tel: (++33)/(0)1 45 66 73 05
www.sf-luth.org

The Lute Society, https://www.lutesociety.org/pages/html-include-catalogue. Tel: (++44)/(0)1483 202159

www.lutesociety.org

Note: Societa Italiana del Liuto,
www.faradic.net/~skorpios/sil/
[publishes through Ut Orpheus Edizioni, see below.]

Music publishers publishing six or more tablature titles

A-R Editions Inc, 8551 Research Way, Suite #180, Middleton, WI 53562, USA Tel: (++1) 608 836 9000. Fax: (++1) 608 831 8200

www.areditions.com

Alamire, Provincial Domein Dommelhof, Toekomstlaan 5B, BE 3910 Neerpelt, Belgium
[or PO Box 45, B-3990 Peer, Belgium]. Tel: (++32)/(0) 11 61 05 10 fax: (++32)/(0) 11 63 49 11

www.alamire.com
[Now only selling off old stock]

Allan Alexander, 188 First Street, Troy, NY 12180-4436, USA

www.guitarandlute.com
[Original compositions & arrangements for Ren. lute, and recorder and lute duets]

Antiqua Edition, Bornweise 29, D-56412, Welschneudorf, Germany. Tel: (++49)/(0) 2608 92 20 21(/ fax: 22)

www.antiqua-edition.de

Arnaldo Forni Editore s.p.a., Via Gramsci 164, I-40010 Sala Bolognese, Italy. Tel: ++39 051 681 4142 (/fax: 4672)

www.fornieditore.com

Dr. Bernd Christoph Becker, Marzellenstrasse 62-64 D-50668 Cologne, Germany. Tel: (++49) 221 13 43 70
[Inexpensive facsimiles]

Anne Jordan, trading as Brian Jordan Music, 8 Mill Common, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England PE29 3AU Tel: (++44)/(0)1480 457306.
www.brianjordanmusic.co.uk
[Publishes English lute songs in facsimile; also a dedicated early music retailer; can supply music by post]

Broude Brothers Ltd, 141 White Oaks Road, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA Tel: (++1) (413) 458 8131 or 800 5258559 Fax: (++1)(413) 458 5242

www.broude.us
[Publishes Performers Facsimile series, incl. English lute songs in facsimile. European agents: Broude Europa, Rosmarinstrasse 15, D-55232 Alzey, Germany]

Chanterelle Verlag, Alstaterstr. 23, D 69124, Heidelberg, Germany. Tel: (++49) 6221 784105. Fax: (++49) 6221 784106

www.chanterelle.com
[Publications include early guitar prints in facsimile, John Johnson and Weiss editions. UK distributors: Spanish Guitar Centre of Nottingham, Tel: 0115 9622709]

C.N.R.S. (Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques) 15 rue Malebranche 75005 Paris, France. Tel: (++33)/(0) 1 53 10 27 00. Fax: (++33)/(0)1 53 10 27 27

www.cnrseditions.fr
[Publishes Corpus de luthistes series of airs de cours and French lute music. See address of shop in Section D below].

Cornetto-Verlag, Hummelgasse 4, 70738 Stuttgart, Germany. Tel: (++49)/(0)711 956 1396 (fax: 1397)

www.faksimiles.org
cornettoverlag.info
[wide range of lute sources in facsimile]

Editions Minkoff, [famous now defunct publisher of early music facsimiles, relict stock is now available through US Agents: OMI, section D, below, Le Point d'Accroche of Paris www.lepointdaccroche.com/ and www.edition-walhall.de/en/

Editions Orphee, Inc. 1240 Clubview Blvd. N, Columbus, OH 43235-1226, USA. Tel: (++1)(614) 846 9517. Fax: (++1)(614) 846 9794.

www.orphee.com

Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag GmbH, Büttnerstrasse 10, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Tel: (++49)/(0) 341 9 60 07 50. Fax: (++49)/(0) 341 9 60 30 55

www.friedrich-hofmeister.de

Instrumenta Antiqua Publications, PO Box 2804, Menlo Park, California 94026, USA Tel: (++1) 650 321 8323
Editions of the late Stan Buetens are now being sold by his son at lutestuff.com/books/

Joachim Trekel Verlag /Haus der Musik, Willerstwiete 17, D-22415, Hamburg, Germany Tel: (++49) 040 520 33 97 /Fax: 520 78 24

www.trekel.de

Kasseler Gross-Auslieferung, Postfach 102180, D-34021 Kassel, Germany.

Le Luth Doré,10 bis, Rue Paul Baudry, F 75008 Paris (++33/0 6 21 66 67 32)

www.leluthdore.com/

Lyre Music Publications, 3710 Bellaire Circle, Forth Worth, TX 76109, USA.

www.mclasen.com/lute/lyre/index.html
[Modern editions of lute music, including several MSS entire]

Lundgren Edition, Ostra Alvarsdalsvagen 32, S-387 92 Borgholm, Sweden, Tel: 0046/0 485 56 32 07
www.lundgren-edition.com
[Publications include tutors and duets]

Neomusic; a website with downloadable tablature, some free and some sales editions
www.neomusic.com

C.F. Peters Musikverlag, Kennedyallee 101, D-60596, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Tel: (++49) (069) 63 00 99 0, Fax: (++49) (069) 63 00 99 54

www.edition-peters.com/index.html
[UK: Peters Edition, 10-12 Baches St, London N1 6DN, tel: 0207 553 4000, fax: 0207 490 4921]

Seicento Notenversand, Rainer Luckhardt, Holbeinstrasse 12, D-79312 Emmendingen, Germany. Tel: (++49/0) 7641 932803 / 932804 fax: 01212 51025 3846.

www.seicentomusic.de

Severinus Press facsimiles, Jacks Pipes & Hammers, Scout Bottom Farm, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 5JS Tel: (++44/0) 1422 882751 /fax: 886157
www.jackspipesandhammers.co.uk

[Formerly Boethius Press, publishes English MS and printed sources in facsimile]

S.P.E.S. (Studio per Edizioni Scelte), of Florence, [Published a wide range of facsimiles of lute and other early instrumental prints] Now defunct but remnant stocks available at Edition Walhall www.edition-walhall.de/en/

Stainer & Bell, PO Box 110, Victoria House, 23 Gruneisen Road, London N3 1DZ Tel: (++44)/(0)20 8343 3303. Fax: (++44)/(0)20 343 3024

www.stainer.co.uk/
[Publishes modern editions of English lute songs and lutenist partsongs]

Tecla Editions, P.O. Box 7567, London NW3 2LJ, England. Tel /fax (++44)/(0)20 7435 5077

www.tecla.com
www.hebeonline.com
[staff notation editions]

Tree Edition, Albert Reyerman, Finkenberg 89, D-23558, Lübeck, Germany. Tel/Fax: (++49)/(0) 451 8997848

www.TREE-EDITION.com
[Publishers tutors, a wide range of modern editions and facsimiles for renaissance and baroque lutes]

UMI/IPI (Xerox University Microfilms) 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, USA. Tel: ++1 734 761 4700

www.umi.com
[UK agent: UMI/IPI, The Old Hospital, Ardingly Road, Cuckfield, W.Sussex RH17 5JR, England. Tel: 01444 445000 Supplies bound editions of a wide range of musicology books and sheet music]

Ut Orpheus Edizioni, Piazza di Porta Ravegnana 1, I-40126 Bologna, Italy. Tel: (++39) 51 226468. Fax: (++39) 51 263720

www.utorpheus.com
[Publishes modern editions for renaissance and baroque lute, including Italian Lute Society series, Hopkinson Smith's Bach edition, and Damiani, Torelli and Yisrael tutors]

Music publishers publishing five or fewer tablature titles

Akkord Music Publishers, Hungary
akkordmusic.com
[publishes selections of the music of Bakfark]

A-R Editions Inc, 8551 Research Way, Suite #180, Middleton, WI 53562, USA Tel: (++1) 608 836 9000. Fax: (++1) 608 831 8200

www.areditions.com

American Institute of Musicology, same address as A-R Editions, which is sole distributor.

www.corpusmusicae.com

A.M.I.S. (Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi)

www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/6010/

Arte Tripharia, Apartado 147, E-36700 Tui, Galiza, Spain

www.artetripharia.com
[de Visee edition and others]

Barenreiter Ltd. (UK office:) Burnt Mill, Elizabeth Way Harlow, Essex CM20 2HX , UK Tel: (++44)/(0)1279 8289 30 (/fax: 31)

www.baerenreiter.com

Baylor University Press, PO Box 97363, Waco, Texas 76798-7363, USA Tel: (++1) 254 710 3164. Fax: (++1) 254 710 3440
www.baylorpress.com
[Publishes Morley’s Consort Lessons and Robinson New Citharen Lessons (1609), now out of print?]

Broekmans & Van Poppel, Van Baerlestraat 92–94, 1071 BB Amsterdam, Netherlands Tel: (++31) 20 6796575 /fax: 6646759
www.broekmans.com
[Some contemporary lute music]

Cheap, Choice, Brave and New, 9425, 67 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6E 0N6 Tel: ++1 780 436 9064

stores.ebay.ca/cheapchoicebraveandnew

Conservatorio Superior de Sevilla C. Jesus del Gran Poder 49, E-41002 Sevilla, Spain; PO Box: C/. Baños, 48 E-41002 Sevilla, Spain. Tel: (95) 4915630 / fax: (95) 4374373

www.csmsev.es
[Bach for chitarrone]

Dover Publications Inc, 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501, USA. Fax: ++1 516 742 6953
www.doverpublications.com
[UK distribution: Constable & Company Ltd, 3 The Lanchesters, 162 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 9ER. Tel: 0181 741 3663, Dowland song editions]

Early Music Centre Publications: see under Brian Jordan.

Edition du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles,
Hotel de Menus-Plaisire
22 Avenue de Paris
F-78000 Versailles
France
tel:++33 (0) 1 39 20 78 18 [/ fax 78 01]

www.cmbv.com

Edition Musica Budapest, Victor Hugo utca 11-15, H 1132 Budapest, Hungary. Tel: ++36 (06-1) 2361 100 /Fax: 101

www.emb.hu
[Publications include Bakfark edition]

Editions Fuzeau, Boite Postale 406, Courlay, F 79306 Bressuire, France. Tel: (++33)/(0) 5 49 72 91 20. Fax: (++33)/(0) 5 49 72 02 03

www.fuzeau.com

Editorial Alpuerto, c/ Caños del Peral, 7 - 1º D, 28013 Madrid, Spain. Tel (+34) 915.47.01.90 / 915.42.51.21 Fax: (+34) 915.42.51.21
www.hotfrog.es/empresas/editorial-alpuerto
[Publications include edition of Guerau, ‘Poema Harmonico]

Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Galleria del Corso 4, 20122, Milan, Italy Tel ++39 02 770701 Fax: ++39 02 770 70261

www.esz.it
[Publishes editions of Bach lute suites, Milan and Milano]

Edizioni Andromeda, Via Fedelle Romani, 10, 64042 Colledara (TE) Italy
www.alinet.it/andromeda
[To publish forthcoming dall’Acquila edition]

www.epubli.de an online German-based publisher, so far publishing an edition of music of Newsidler.

Eudardo Sohns, Libros de Musica: www.sohns-musica.com.ar/index.html

Euterpe Press, 103 School Street, Keene, New Hampshire, USA

[Publishes an edition of Robinson's New Citharen Lessons (1609)]

Faber Music, 3 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AU Tel: (++44)/(0)20 7465 0045 Fax: (++44)/(0)20 7465 0034
www.faber.co.uk
[Publications include Dowland edition]

Fretwork Editions, 16 Teddington Park Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 8ND, England Tel: (++44)/(0)20 8977 0924. Fax: (++44)/(0)20 8404 2414

www.fretwork.co.uk

Green Man Press, General Editor: Cedric Lee, 180 Sheen Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1XD, Tel: (+44) (0)20 8332 9522

www.greenmanpress-music.co.uk
[Dowland and Robert Jones songs and duets]

Harmonie Park Press, Liberty Professional Center, 35675 Mound Road, Sterling Heights, MI 48310-4727 Tel: ++1 586 979 2077 /fax: 1786

www.harmonieparkpress.com

Hanssler-Verlag GmbH, Bismarckstr. 4, D-73765 Neuhausen, Postfach 1220, D-73762 Neuhausen Tel: (++49)/(0)7158177-0, Fax : (++49)/(0)7158177-119
www.haenssler.de

G. Henle Publishers, Forstenrieder Allee 122 D-81476 Munchen,Germany Tel: (++49) 89 759 82 0 Fax: (++49)/(0)89-7 59 82-40.

www.henle.com

Jarchow Verlag & Label, Soenke-Nissan-Allee 9, D-21509 Glinde, Germany. Tel: (++49/0) 40 710 25 41 Fax: (++49/0) 40 710 53 86

www.jarchow.com
[Facsimile series, beginning with Schele lute book, and guitar transcriptions of lute and baroque guitar music]

H.H. Koch Berlin Antiquariat, Kurfürstendamm 216, (gegenüber Kempinski) 10719 Berlin, Germany Tel: (++49)/(0) 30 882 63 60. Fax: (++49)/(0) 30 882 40 66

KGM Guitar & Lute Editions, Kent Murdick, 302 Chatham Street, Mobile, AL 36604, USA.

members.aol.com/lutemann/lute.html
[Modern lute arrangements of Celtic etc. folk tunes]

Kithara Editions, 50-11 Poyer Street, Elmhurst, Queens, NY 11373, USA

Le Luth Dore, 76 Rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris, France, +33 (0)6 01 81 34 21

www.leluthdore.com/

London Pro Musica Edition, PO Box 97, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8UZ. Tel/fax: ++44/0 1422 847051

www.londonpromusica.com

David E. McConnell, 5–10 W. 12 Avenue, Vancouver BC, V5Y 1TS, Canada. Tel: ++1 604 708 9148. Self-published contemporary composer.

Mel Bay, #4 Industrial Drive, PO Box 66, Pacific, MO 63069-0066, USA. Tel: 1 800 863 5229 / ++1 636 257 3970 /fax: 5062

www.melbay.com

Mignarda Editions, 365 Tupper Road, Spencer, NY 14883

mignarda.eglanteria.com

MMF Publications, PO Box 287, 2160 AG Lisse, The Netherlands. Tel: ++31 252 432120 / Fax 443101
www.mmfpublications.nl/mmf_publication

Musica Repartita, Drs. J.H. van Krevelen, Goedestraat 133, NL 3572 RS Utrecht, Netherlands. Tel: ++31/0 30 271 8465
[facsimiles include Reusner print of 1697]

Musica Scotica, c/o Dr Gordon Munro, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G2 3DB Tel: (++44)/(0)141 270 8328

www.musicascotica.org.uk
[Publications include Scots lute songs]

Musiche Varie, Martin Lubenow/Suzanne van Os, Brahmsstraße 11, D-76726 Germersheim, Germany Tel: (++49)/(0) 721 151 359 395

www.musichevarie.de catalogue at: www.musichevarie.de/html/musikverlag.html

Stefan Nesbya, Fischergrube 27, D 23552, Lubeck, Germany. Tel: ++49 451 74831,

[Bach keyboard works arranged for two lutes]

OMI (Old Manuscripts and Incunabula), PO Box 6019 FDR Station, New York, NY 01051 USA Tel: (++1) (212) 758 1946. Fax: (++1) (212) 593 6186.

www.omifacsimiles.com

Opera Tres, Ediciones Musicales, Daza Valdes, 7, Nave 6–7, E-28914 Leganes, Madrid, Spain. Tel: ++34 91 6801505 Fax: (++34) 91 680 76 26

www.operatres.com
[CD ROM of complete vihuela prints in facsimile]

Oriel Library, 32 The Burgage, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 1EG Tel: (++44/0 1630 653802)

oriellibrary.com
[Mostly music for recorders, voices and viols, but also an edition of Coprario songs; we are grateful to Oriel Editions for allowing the Lute Society to publish their editions of lyra tablature and 17th century anthologies at publications]

Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP. Tel: (++44)/(0)1865 556767. Fax: (++44)/(0)1865 267749

www.oup.co.uk/music
[Formerly published a range of English lute music, now only works by Ferrabosco and Pilkington]

PWM Edition (Krakow Wydawnictwo Musyczne), ul. Krasinskiego 11a Krakow, Poland.

www.pwm.com.pl
[Publications include work of J Reis]

Rob MacKillop, Musician in Residence, Queen Margaret University, Queen Margaret Way, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, Scotland Tel: (++44)/(0)131 474 0000

www.rmguitar.info
[Specialist in Scottish Lute and Guitar Music]

Roundelay Publications, Waye House, Alston Cross, Ashburton, Devon, TQ13 7ET, England. Tel/fax: (++44)/(0)1364 652114
[Publications include cittern tutor. UK agent: Brian Jordan.]

Schott & Co. Ltd, (UK Head Office:) 48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1V 2BN. Tel: 020 7534 0700 Fax: 020 7534 0719.

www.schott-music.com
[Publications include Diana Poulton tutor]

Score Conversions, 615 Des Erables S RR1, Marbelton, J0B 2L0 Canada. Tel: (++1) 514 282 1227, Fax: 514 861 9209.

Société Francaise de Musicologie, 2 Rue Louvois, F 75002 Paris, Franceto Tel: (++33/0) 1 53 79 88 45
www.sfm.culture.fr

The Lute Corner, Andreas Schlegel, Eckstr. 6, CH-5737 Menziken, Switzerland. Tel: (++41/0) 62 771 47 07 Fax: (++41/0) 62 772 40 28.

www.lutecorner.ch

Wiscasset Music Publishing Co, 10-12 Mason Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-0810, USA. Tel. (++1) (617) 492 5720 /Fax: 492 4031

www.wiscassetmusicpublishing.com

Specialist music dealers and other useful addresses

Antiqua Edition (Germany): see address, section B.

Ars Antiqua, c/ de la Independencia, 2 Local izq, 28013 Madrid (t/f ++34 913 661 930)

www.ars-antiqva.com
[Can supply strings and music by post, also new and second hand instruments]

L'Atelier Philidor - Librairie Musicale
64B chemin du Martinet
F 01280 Prévessin-Moëns - France
(t: ++33/0 4 50 40 39 70)
www.atelierphilidor.com

Brian Jordan: see address, section B.
[UK’s only dedicated early sheet music retailer, can supply music by post]

Boulder Early Music Shop, 280 Seventh Ave, Ouray, CO 81427, USA Tel: (++1) 970 325 4154 Fax: (++1) 970 325 4185, own publications include a reprint of the Arthur Ness edition of the complete works of Francesco da Milano

www.bems.com

La Librairie de CNRS Editions, 151 bis, rue Saint-Jacques F-75005 Paris, France Tel: (++33/0)1 53 10 05 05 /fax: 53 10 05 07.

www.cnrseditions.fr/sources/librairie/

Early Music Shop, Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, W. Yorks BD18 3LA Tel: (++44)/(0)1274 288100 / fax: 596229.

www.e-m-s.com

The Early Music Shop of New England, 65 Boylston Street, Brookline, MA, 02445 USA. Tel: (++1) 617 277 8690 / fax: 277 7217

www.vonHuene.com
[Have recently taken over the lute music dealing interests of Hungry Monk Music]

Early Music im Ibach-Haus, Stephanie Göbel, Wilhelmstr. 43, D-58332 Schwelm, Germany Tel: (++49) 2336 990290/ fax: 914213

www.blockfloetenladen.de

Edition Walhall, Richard Wagner str. 3, Magdeburg, D 39106, Germany Tel: ++49 391 857820 /fax: 8520079

www.edition-walhall.de

Jacks, Pipes & Hammers , Scout Bottom Farm, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, HX7 5JS, tel: 01422 882751 Fax 886157,
www.jackspipesandhammers.co.uk

Tel: +1422(0) 1422 882751
[Produces lute/guitar catalogue and facsimile catalogues, including Boethius/Severinus facsimiles, can supply music by post. Also trading as Peacock Press, Ruxbury Publications Ltd. (own facsimile publishing and NEMA) and RecorderMusicMail]

The Early Music Shop, Snape Maltings, Bridge Rd, Saxmundham IP17 1SP
tel: (++44/ 0)1274 288100.

www.earlymusicshop.com

Maison de la Musique Ancienne (Early Music Shop France) 98 bd. Richard Lenoir, 75011 Paris, France. Tel: (++33) 1 49 29 54 44/ fax: 54 43

www.musiqueancienne.com

Rosemary M S Dooley, Secondhand books on music, 3 Kendal Green, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 5PN, England. Tel: (++44)/(0)15395 740049 Fax: (++44)/(0)15395 737744

www.booksonmusic.co.uk
[Supplies music and books on music by post]

Seicento Notenversand (Germany): see address, section B.

Muziiekhandel Saul B. Groen, Ferdinand Bolstraat 8, 1072 LJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel/fax: ++31 20 676 2240

www.saulbgroen.nl

Saraband Music (Australia) Tel: +61 (0) 7 5422 0806

www.saraband.com.au

TABULATURA, Stromstigen 25, S 149 51 Nynashamn, Sweden

www.tabulatura.com/TABULATU.htm
[Dealer in new and second hand sheet music for lute and guitar: website gives an exceptionally thorough bibliography of lute music in print]

Ut Orpheus Libreria Musicale, Palazzo Leoni, Via Marsala 31/E, 40126 Bologna, Italy. Tel: (++39) 051 239295 fax: (++39) 051 0822432

www.libreriamusicale.com
[Stocks include SPES and Arnaldo Forni editions]