Performance on Lute Guitar and Vihuela

This is the first book-length study in any language dedicated specifically to lute guitar and vihuela performance. Written by specialists of this music it is intended for players teachers and scholars who are interested both in the history of performance as well as in the specific interpretation of lute guitar and vihuela music from the end of the fifteenth century to approximately 1850. It brings to light various new ideas about performance and technique for a wide range of instruments including the fifteenth- sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian lute archlute theorbo French baroque lute vihuela and baroque and classical guitar as well as for lute-accompanied English and Italian song.