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Igor Varfolomeev's site about lute and guitar music

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Lute.ru radio. 24 hours a day, listen on-line lute music. On-line player will open in a new window, you can continue to browse the site, listening to the lute.
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News. The Poster. On the upcoming and past events.

Lute music story. The exhaustive information about history lute music, composers, luteists, makers, publishers of the Renaissance, Baroque and their biographies.

Article about the most reliable information about the history of formation and development of the lute. Page in Russian with an opportunity of translation into English language (Google translate)..

Brief history of development instrument - lute. Page in Russian with an opportunity of translation into English language (Google translate)..

Lute instruments review. The review of family lute instruments. Renaissance lute, Baroque lutes and Baroque guitar, Vihuela, Theorbo, Chitarrone, Wandervogel lute, Renaissance Cittern, Mandolin, Bandora, Torban, etc.

Luteists, composers, associates. Information about modern and early players on the lute instruments, composers, makers, publishers, and simply associates. Biographies, photos, etc.

Modern players on early instruments, associates.

Early players, composers, luthier, publishers, theorists. Contains about 500 names.

Review of the lute CD. In this review, there are more than 100 CD. On this page you can read the contents of CD, see the cover of a larger size and listen to some tracks on-line.

Theory and practice of play. What does it mean - lute tablature and how to read it? How to play at the classical guitar the lute music? Tuning of lute instruments, strings and other manuals.

Library «Tabulatures and notes» The library contains about 4000 lute tabulatures of more than 150 composers (format ft2, pdf, midi, tab), more than 100 books and collections containing more than 3000 compositions (format jtb). Lute books in pdf format. Sheet music for classical and Russian seven-string guitar. Ancient manuscripts.

The section includes about 4000 products for the lute more than 200 composers. In this section all files are presented in ft2 format and duplicated in pdf, midi, tab. The size of all these files is not large, that allows to open these files in mode On-line. In the same section it is possible to download program FRONIMO. In this archive there is convenient search of folders and files.

By means of this section you find a lot of lute books and collections with more than 3000 compositions in format jtb program Django (sorting: land-book-its content). Program Django allows to look over books similarly to Adobe Acrobat Reader (configuration with bookmarks) and to listen. You can also download this program.

This section contains lute books in format PDF of program Adobe Acrobat Reader. This format approaches for any computer platform and allows to display covers and the most exotic fonts.

A manuscript or handwrit is a recording of information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way. The word manuscript is derived from the Latin manu scriptum, literally "written by hand"

This section contains virtually all published sheet music for classical guitar for the past three centuries, arranged for guitar works written for the lute and baroque guitar, transcriptions of works by famous composers, works of flamenco guitarists. In total, the library contains about 11000 pages.

Links to sites which contain tabulatures for various early musical instruments in various formats are on this site in the catalogue "Catalogue of thematic links" in subitem "Tabulatures, programs, archives".

Video «Lute instruments». You will see on-line on this page of video of play on lute instruments.

Lute in painting and photo. In this gallery of pictures you can get acquainted with the fine art of different epochs associated with the lute.

Classical guitar page. The page contains the information on a history of the classical guitar, classics of guitar music, history of guitar in Russia, collection of links, section about classical guitar in jazz where it is possible to download new arrangements.

Brief biographies of the most glorified and known guitarists - composers who have brought in the huge contribution to development of guitar music in the world.

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E.D.Larichev article about a history of guitar in Russia.

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Jazz musis and classical guitar. Joe Pass and Laurindo Almeida. Links. Compositions of Almeida (cool-jazz). Notes of jazz arrangements for classical guitar.

Societies, publishing, guitars and accessories, makers, classical guitar sites, Internet shops, others.

The Scottish Guitar. The book has 74 pages, and there are 40 mp3 files. It is the sum of many years researching and performing Scottish lute, cittern and guitar music. The key thing is the performances. There is a continuity of style and technique going back nearly 1,000 years, which I have brought to the modern nylon and steel-strung guitar. As I say in the Introduction, this is more Scottish than 'Celtic'.

M.T.Vysotsky on 6-string guitar. This page about remarkable guitarist Evgueni Romantsov his CD and book with transcriptions of 7 on 6-string guitar works of the great Russian guitarist and composer Michael Timofeyevich Vysotsky. This is not just beautiful music and very talented transcriptions - this is preservation of the Russian guitar tradition. On this page you can freely download the book E. Romantsov and listen to him play on-line.

Russian seven-stringed guitar. It is the most mysterious musical instrument concerning the history. It is a lot of disputes, but anybody plainly cannot explain two hundred year's history of a seven-stringed guitar. Who was the founder of this instrument?, sources of occurrence?, etc.
We hope, that this page will explain much and will promote revival of this remarkable musical instrument.
This page contains set of notes and textbooks for free uploading.
Page in Russian with an opportunity of translation into English language (Google translate).

Classical guitar in rock and pop music. The unique offer for players on classical guitar. If you study or play classical guitar and you have lack of interesting modern repertoire or you are publisher and look for interesting material, you are at the right place.

Where you can see and notes of separate compositions and listen in format Windows Media Audio -"wma"

You can look published in Russia notes from the series "With own hands" 1996-1999 and download.

Early music in Russia. Page about musicians, early music ensembles, masters of early musical instruments or people in one degree or another, connected with the lute and early musical instruments from the former Soviet Union and its provinces, abroad or in Russia, who are fluent in Russian.

Catalogue of thematic links. The catalogue of links. Here it is possible to find any information on a subject of early music, musical societies, masters, players and ensembles of all world, a history, instruments, theory, etc. The Catalogue is divided into subjects. Contains more than 800 links.

Radio "Classical Guitar". Listen to Internet radio from SKY.fm.

Forum. You can add, edit and delete the messages at a forum, submit announcements, add avators exchange files. To write and receive messages at a forum. To subscribe for any forums and subjects (i.e. to receive notices on e-mail about new messages), to make bookmarks on liked subjects, to discuss some sections of site and many other things.