At 07:50 AM 11/15/2006, Denys Stephens wrote: >Dear Jim, >The incontestable reason for the survival of lute tablature >is that it was the medium used by historical lutenists to >preserve their music. Even today, despite the efforts of >editors of lute music throughout the last century, the >greater part of the lute repertoire has not been transcribed >into staff notation. If you want to play the music that has >not been transcribed you have to approach it on its own >terms in the original tablature.
I think Editions Orphee has some decent articles on this topic: <http://www.orphee.com/trans/trans.html> <http://www.orphee.com/yantee.htm> (I thought there was a more polished looking version of the latter, but I couldn't find it.) Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
