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• Nuove inventioni di balli (In Milano : Appresso Girolamo Bordone, MDCIIII [1604], 1604), by Cesare Negri, Leone Pallavicini, Giovanni Mauro Della Rovere, and Girolamo Bordone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musicke of sundrie kindes set forth in two bookes. The first whereof are, aries [sic] for 4. voices to the lute, orphorion, or basse. viol, with a dialogue for two voices, and two basse viols in parts, tunde the lute way. The second are pauens, galiards, almaines, toies, igges, thumpes and such like, for two basse-viols, the lierway, so made as the greatest number may serue to play alone, very easie to be performde. Composed by Thomas Ford. (Imprinted at London : By Iohn Windet at [sic] the assignes of William Barley and are to be sold by Iohn Brovvne in Saint Dunstons churchyard in Fleetstreet, 1607), by Thomas Ford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Varietie of lute-lessons viz. fantasies, pauins, galliards, almaines, corantoes, and volts: selected out of the best approued authors, as well beyond the seas as of our owne country. By Robert Douland. VVhereunto is annexed certaine obseruations belonging to lute-playing: by Iohn Baptisto Besardo of Visonti. Also a short treatise thereunto appertayning: by Iohn Douland Batcheler of Musicke. (London : Printed [by Thomas Snodham] for Thomas Adams, 1610), by Robert Dowland, Jean Baptiste Besard, and John Dowland (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• [Lessons for consort] [made by sundry excellent authors, and set to sixe severall instruments, namely, the treble lute, treble violl, base violl, bandora, citterne, and the flute ; now newly set forth by Philip Rosseter]. ([London : Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop, 1609]), by Philip Rosseter (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• A New Booke of Tabliture, Containing Sundrie Easie and Familiar Instructions (1596), by William Barley (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• The Schoole of Musicke (London: Thomas Este, 1603), by Thomas Robinson (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• Varietie of Lute-Lessons (London: Thomas Adams, 1610), by Robert Dowland (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• Intabolatura [sic] de lauto : libro primo (-secundo) (Minkoff Reprint, 1978), by Francesco Spinacino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Intabolatura de lauto (Minkoff Reprint, 1981), by Giovanni Maria da Crema (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto. Libro primo (Minkoff, 1977), by Franciscus Bossinensis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noctes musicae, studio et industria (Minkoff Reprint, 1598), by Matthaeus Reymann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pièces de luth : sur trois différents modes nouveaux (Minkoff Reprint, 1975), by Denis Gaultier and Ennemond Gautier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le trésor d'Orphée : [livre de tablature de luth] (Minkoff Reprint, 1973), by Antoine Francisque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der lautenist Santino Garsi da Parma; ein beitrag zur geschichte der oberitalienischen lautenmusik am ausgang der spätrenaissance. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926), by Helmuth Osthoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les luthistes espagnols du XVIe siècle : (Die spanischen Lautenmeister des 16 Jahrhunderts) (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1902), by Guillermo Morphy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schule des Lautenspiels für die gewöhnliche Laute, Basslaute, doppelchörige und theorbierte Laute, unter Berücksichtigung der Regeln und Erfahrungen der berühmtsten Lautenmeister des XVI. und folgender Jahrhunderte bis zur Gegenwart. (Möseler Verlag, 1959), by Hans Dagobert Bruger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musica und Tab[u]latur : auff die Instrument der kleinen und grossen Geygen, auch Lautten (Minkoff Reprint, 1977), by Hans Gerle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weltliche Werke. I. (Artaria & Co.;, 1907), by Heinrich Isaac and Johannes Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Osterreichische Lautenmusik zwischen 1650 und 1720. (Artaria, 1918), by Adolf Koczirz, Rochus Berhandizki, Camille Tallard, Georg Muffat, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Jacques-Alexandre de Saint-Luc, Johann Theodor Herold, Wenzel Ludwig Radolt, Jan Antonín Losy z Losimthalu, Johann Georg Weichenberger, Ferdinand Ignaz Hinterleithner, and Johann Gotthard Peyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscrit Milleran : tablature de luth française c. 1690 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Rés. 823) (Minkoff Reprint, 1976), by François Lesure, René Milleran, and Bibliothèque nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesaurus harmonicus : avec un index (Editions Minkoff, 1993), by Jean-Baptiste Besard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Troisiesme livre de tablature de leut : contenant plusieurs chansons, fantaisies, motets, pavanes & gaillardes (Editions Minkoff, 2002), by Guillaume Morlaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il liuto : notizie esplicative e storiche (G. Podrecca, 1921), by Angelina Altoviti Avila and Bendetto Landini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laute und Lautenmusik bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der deutschen Lautentabulatur. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1901), by Oswald Körte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Intabulatura de lauto : libro quarto (Minkoff Reprint, 1980), by Joan Ambrosio Dalza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vierter Nachtrag zur Gesammtausgabe der Werke (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1907), by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Fr. X. Haberl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novus partus : Isagoge in artem testudinariam ; et supplément manuscrit de l'exemplaire de la Bibliothèque de Strasbourg (Minkoff, 1983), by Jean Baptiste Besard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Werken. Uitgegeven door de Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlands Musiekgeschiedenis. Uitgegeven met inleiding door Dr. Max Seiffert. (M. Nijhoff, 1894), by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Max Seiffert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sebastian Bachs compositionen für die laute ([Berlin, 1901), by Wilhelm Tappert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laute und Lautenmusik bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der deutschen Lautentabulatur. (Leipzig,bDruck von Breitkopf & Härtel, 1901), by Oswald Körte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het luitboek van Thysius beschreven en toegelicht (F. Muller & co., 1889), by J. P. N. Land (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le trésor d'Orphée : livre de tablature de luth contenant une Susane un joir, plusieurs fantasies, preludes, passemaises, gaillardes, pavanes d'Angleterre, pavane espagnolle, fin de gaillarde, suittes de bransles, tant à cord avalées qu'austres, voltes & courantes (s. n., 1906), by Antoine Francisque and Henri Quittard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das deutsche weltliche Lied in der Lautenmusik de 16. Jahrhunderts ... (Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel, 1891), by Ernst Ludwig Sigismund Radecke (page images at HathiTrust)
• New citharen lessons, with perfect tunings of the same, from foure course of strings to fourteene course, euen to trie the sharpest teeth of enuie, with lessons of all sorts, and methodicall instructions for all professors and practitioners of the citharen. (W. Barley, 1609), by Thomas Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il ballarino (Appresso Francesco Ziletti, 1983), by Fabritio Caroso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il ballarino (Appresso Franceco Ziletti, 1581), by Fabritio Caroso and Giacomo Franco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Österreichische Lautenmusik zwischen 1650 und 1720. (Artaria ;, 1918), by Adolf Koczirz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alte Lautenkunst aus drei Jahrhunderten : eine Sammlung der schönsten Lautenlieder und Solostücke aus den Blütezeiten aller Länder (N. Simrock, 1923), by Hans Dagobert Bruger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei- und dreistimmige Solostücke für die Laute (Möseler, 1926), by Hans Dagobert Bruger and Pierre Attaingnant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alte Meister der Laute : eine Sammlung von Lautenwerken aus drei Jahrhundertern (Vieweg, 1927), by Hans Neeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tabulatura continens insignes et selectissimas quasdam fantasias : cantiones Germanicas, Italicas, ac Gallicas, passemezo, choreas, & mutetas, iam primum in lucem aeditas (Bärenreiter Verlag, 1980), by Benedictus de Drusina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lautenspieler des XVI. Jahrhunderts = Luitisti del Cinquecento : ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Ursprungs der modernen Tonkunst (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1891), by Oscar Chilesotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuove inventioni di balli (In Milano : Appresso Girolamo Bordone, MDCIIII [1604], 1604), by Cesare Negri, Leone Pallavicini, Giovanni Mauro Della Rovere, and Girolamo Bordone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schule des lautenspiels für die gewöhnliche laute, basslaute, doppelchörige und theorbierte laute : unter berücksichtigung der regeln und erfahrungen der berühmtesten lautenmeister des XVI. und folgender jahrhunderte bis zur gegenwart (Wolfenbüttel : Möseler Verlag, [1926], 1926), by Hans Dagobert Bruger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spielstücke für Klavier oder andere Tasteninstrumente und Laute (Bärenreiter, 1949), by Johann Valentin Goerner, Johannes Degen, Christian Pezold, Karl Johann Friedrich Haltmeier, Johann Georg Kreising, Franz Anton von Weber, Ernst Gottlieb Baron, Silvius Leopold Weiss, and Georg Philipp Telemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English lute-songs. : Series II (Stainer & Bell ;, 1925), by Edmund H. Fellowes and Thurston Dart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Intabolatura de lauto : di recercari canzon francese motetti madrigali padoane é saltarelli ; Novamente ristampata & del medesmo autore corretta ; Libro primo. (Gardane, 1546), by da Crema Giovanni Maria and Gardane (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Intabolatvra di lavto, di recerchari, canzon francese, motetti, madrigali, padoane, e saltarelli : Libro terzo. (Venetiis, 1546), by da Crema Giovanni Maria (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les luthistes (H. Laurens, 1928), by Lionel de La Laurencie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laute und Lautenmusik bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der deutschen Lautentabulatur (Gregg, 1968), by Oswald Körte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sunto storico dell'intavolatura e metodo practico per liuto. (G. Venturini, 1891), by Giuseppe Branzoli (page images at HathiTrust)

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