Thomas: This semester Case Western Reserve University here in Cleveland is performing all known music connected with Lord Hayes 1607 masque, directed by David Douglass. I'm playing cittern in the broken consort, although only two works exist originally as broken consort settings (Richard Allison and Phillip Rosseter). The rest is all four or five part instrumental repertoire and we simply make up our own parts. In some parts of the performance the broken consort will accompany other groups like the violin band or recorder quintet or in the tutti sections.
The point is, although the amount of actual broken consort literature for violin, flute, viol, bandora, cittern and lute is limited in modern publication and original sources (incomplete or missing parts sometimes), there is plenty of music to arrange once you're familiar with the conventions. The Baltimore Consort, for example, has an almost limitless repertoire for broken consort, even trespassing into Irish and Appalachian! Kenneth -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
