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Article: A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance. .(Book Review)
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A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance. By Douglas Alton Smith. [Lexington, Va.]: Lute Society of America, 2002. [xvii, 389 p. ISBN 0-971-40710-X. $85.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Few musical instruments have had such a history of both favor and neglect as the lute. Plucked string instruments of various sorts were popular in much of Europe beginning in the Middle Ages; iconographical and archival sources indicate that the lute was well established in Spain from the ninth century A.D. on, spreading into southern Italy and from there northward. The written repertoire begins around the year 1500 and from that time the lute ...