Many thanks to all who responded to my question. Since the time I posted my query about early quotes on Bakfark I made a trip to Poland (Warsaw and Krakow) this past weekend and even performed a lute recital at the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawa and enjoyed including Bakfark in the program. I left it up to my translating host to tell the audience in Polish about the quotes from the 16th C. poet Kochanowski and I still don't know exactly what she told the audience, but they did seem to enjoy what was said!
I performed Fantasia I and Czarna Krowa, in addition to another Polish piece. The first part of the program was early Venetian lute music. I hope to come back and perform more lute programs there at some future point. Regards, Kenneth Be To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
