A Toye – Anonymous Renaissance Lute Work

A Toye – Anonymous Renaissance lute work arranged for Classical Guitar with performance, lesson, and pdf sheet music. This comes from my sheet music edition Grade 1 Repertoire Supplement for Classical Guitar. Contains 10 works at the grade 1 level and is designed as extra repertoire for students who have completed my Volume 1 and 2 method books and specifically my Repertoire Lessons Grade 1. Here is the YouTube link if you want to watch it there.

A Toye is an authentic Renaissance lute work from The Jane Pickering Lute Book arranged for guitar. This work offers an opportunity to study a light dance rhythm is 6/8 time with a flowing and shaped upper melodic line.

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Bradford Werner
Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.

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  1. Thanks for adding some repertoire pieces that are suitable for beginners yet interesting and musical. Thanks also for listing the instrument, strings, and guitar support you use for performing each piece. From your previous reviews of strings, I didn’t know you liked Augustine Regal Red strings. Do you favor these for Renaissance lute pieces played on classical guitar, or did these just happen to be in your queue for the next time you changed strings?

    • I just had the Regals around to be in queue (I often forget what something feels/sound like). I like the Augustine Imperials quite a bit, the regals seem a bit muted to me. But they are all very nice strings if you want a smooth traditional sound. I tend to want to go a bit brighter though, at least for my guitar.