This page discusses how to read French Lute Tablature:
Introduction To Reading French Lute Tablature
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TRAINING TABLATURE
Well known tunes for players new to reading Lute tablature:
1_Old Madonald Had A Farm
2_London Bridge I Falling Down
3_Jingle Bells
4_Silent Night
5_Row, Row, Row The Boat
Tabs for beginner players of lute tablature:
1_Beautiful Dreamer
2_Ah Vous Dirai Je Maman
3_Brahms Lullaby
4_Ode To Joy
5_Michael Row The Boat Ashore
6_Muss I Denn
7_Danny Boy
8_Scarborough Fair
9_Sloop John B
10_Morning Has Broken
A set of exercises using a well known folk song with each tab getting progressively harder:
Molly Malone 1
Molly Malone 2
Molly Malone 3
Molly Malone 4
Molly Malone 5
Molly Malone 6
Molly Malone 7
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Tablature for those experienced in reading ‘French Lute Tablature’
A Coy Toye (Dowland)
A Dream (Dowland)
A Jig (Askue)
Aloe (Dowland)
A Toye
As It Fell On A Holly Eve (Holborne)
Awake Sweet Love (Dowland)
‘Aye Me’ or ‘The Symphony’ (Playford)
Black Nag, The (Playford)
Bonnie Sweet Boy
Branle
Broom, The Bonny, Bonny Broom (Playford)
Canarie
Canarios (Sanz)
Candish’s Galliard (Dowland)
Can She Excuse (Dowland)
Captain Digorie Piper’s Galliard (Dowland)
Chanson Englesa (Dowland)
Chestnut (Playford)
Come Again (Dowland)
Complaint (Dowland)
Coranto (Dowland)
Coventry Carol
Draw Near And Love Me
English Hunt’s Up, The (Whitfield)
Espanoleta (Sanz)
Fortune My Foe (Dowland)
Gigue (Robinson)
Go From My Window (Dowland)
Greensleeves
Greenwood (Playford)
Health, The (Playford)
Home Again
Italiana
Jack A Lent (Playford)
Kemps Jig
Knowles
Lachrimae (Dowland)
Lady In The Dark (Playford)
Lady Laiton’s Almain (Dowland)
Lantero (Robinson)
La Roque
Lord Strang’s March (Dowland)
Maids In Constrite, The
Milk Maids Bob (Playford)
Mistress White’s Choice (Dowland)
Morris, The
Mrs. Nicol’s Almain (Dowland)
Mrs. White’s Nothing (Dowland)
Mrs. Winters Jump (Dowland)
Mulberry Garden, The (Playford)
My Lady Cullen (Playford)
My Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe |(Dowland)
Nonesuch
Old Mole, The (Playford)
Orlando Sleepeth (Dowland)
Packington’s Pound
Parson’s Farewell (Playford)
Pavane (Sanz)
Peg-A-Ramsey
Pepper’s Black (Playford)
Praeludium (Dowland)
Progresse
Robinson’s May
Rose Is White And Rose Is Red (Playford)
Row Well Ye Mariners (Playford)
Rufty Tufty (Playford)
Rejuro (Sanz)
Shoemaker’s Wife, The (Dowland)
Squirrel’s Toye, The (Dowland)
Sweet Kate (Playford)
Toye (Cutting)
Toye (Dowland)
Volte
Where Are Those Eyes So Fair
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