Table of Contents

Preface - Stringed keyboard instruments in 17th-century France; their status, role and repertory according to documentary sources - Basic features of lute and keyboard styles - Lute style c1600-c1670 - Keyboard arrangements from lute repertoire - The relationship of original harpsichord repertoire to lute style - Late 16th- and early 17th-century keyboard sources - Central keyboard sources c1650-1690 - Index

About the Author

DAVID LEDBETTER lectures at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. He is a contributor to Musical Times and Early Music and his article in The Lute has been described as the first important discussion of the interaction between the lute and harpsichord repertoires.