My contributions

Updated 2.4.2013 / Previous update 19.12.2011.

String calculators
- Mobile Phone Version (v. 1.5) of my old String Calculator!
- Arto's New String Calculator (v. 1.0) a Java-applet for calculating string tensions and diameters
- Arto's String Calculator (v. 2.2) JavaScript calculator for string tensions and diameters
Continuo school
- Basics of the basics of lute continuo - manual for a lute continuo beginner (pdf)
  - L' a b c de la basse continue au luth (my "Basics of the basics" in French, translated by Belgian Lute Academy)
  - Een basiscursus om het continuo-spel te leren op luit (my "Basics of the basics" in Dutch, translated by Belgian Lute Academy)
  - "Basics of the basics" in Japanese translated by "The Early Music Company".
- Originally the article was sent to the Lute List in 1994: Basics of the basics of lute continuo (ascii-file).
Different types of tabulature and music paper
Intabulations, Arrangements, etc.
- Pieces by Robert de Visée - transcriptions for archlute or 10-course lute (early 90's)
- "Toccata per Spinettina sola over Liuto" by Girolamo Frescobaldi - intabulation for archlute or 10-course lute, and now also ...a small "Frescobaldi for lute" project
- Three intabulations of Ludwig Senfl's "Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein", Newsidler, Gerle, Judenkunig (80's)
- "Pastime with good company", a composition by "Henry the VIII" - a simple lute intabulation of a well known piece.
- Calata spagnola by J.A. Dalza, 1508 - one of the strangest of his Calate!
- In the 1980's I transcribed the "Original Rags" by Scott Joplin to renaissance lute: jpg-file (1286735 bytes), (262957 bytes) Don't forget the "inequal" if you play it! Without that there is no swing...
- (18.10.2006) Lute versions of the Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turcs and also other pieces by Lully from the ballet Le bourgeois gentilhomme
- (28.12.2007) A couple of minuets "by Bach" composed by Christian Petzold
- (20.2.2008) Tarantelle intabulate per liuti
- (7.3.2008) Biber for lutes - my lute arrangements of the famous Passagalia
- (15.5.2008) Vivaldi Concerto RV 93 as lute solo
- (27.5.2008) Song Intabulations for Solo (soprano) Lute (Dowland: Flow my teares, Caccini: Amarilli, ...)
- (1.9.2008) Pieces for chitarrino, renaissance guitar
- (8.10.2008) Pieces for chitarrone, theorbo
- (19.11.2008) Archlute music
- (19.11.2008) 10-course lute music
- (18.12.2008) Christmas carols for lute
- French theorbo music
- 11-course lute music
Articles etc.
- Agostini Agazzari about continuo in 1607 - the principles and ideas of early Italian continuo practice
- Major candences of minor key pieces in Italian baroque lute music - a small 'research'
- "Shakespeare" about Dowland - a beautiful poem (actually written by Richard Barnfield)
- 'From Renaissance to Baroque', a short story, very short - an interesting period of music history in a few words
- Vincenzo Galileo in 1584 about unequal fret spacing and little glued frets on lutes - great master's opinions
- Italian composer Bellerofonte Castaldi about "falsetto" singers
- Keys in baroque lute music
Performances etc.
- (11.4.2008) My music video clips
- Some pieces played by me on recordings made years ago (1992, 1996, 2002)
- Six video clips of Sarmaticae played by renaissance lute (4.12.2005 and 17.12.2005)
- (13.2.2008) Google Videos: Ballard, Le Roy, Sarmaticae
- (20.2.2008) Tarantelle intabulate per liuti
- (20.2.2008) Google Video (28 minutes): Adriano Banchieri's Barca di Venetia per Padova performed by the ensemble Köyhät Ritarit (Poor Knights) in the Ritarihuone (old House of Finnish Nobility) in spring 2000.
- (27.5.2008) Song Intabulations for Solo (soprano) Lute (Dowland: Flow my teares, Caccini: Amarilli, ...)
- (1.9.2008) Pieces for chitarrino, renaissance guitar
- (25.9.2008) "Suite" by Robert de Visée now also played in videos.
- (25.9.2008) "Suite Méditerranée" now also played in videos.
- (8.10.2008) Pieces for chitarrone, theorbo
- (19.11.2008) Archlute music
- (19.11.2008) 10-course lute music
- (18.12.2008) Christmas carols for lute
- (11.5.2009) French theorbo music
- (14.1.2010) 11-course lute music
- (16.4.2011) A live concert by Alta/bassa in Bambuser pages: mainly Monteverdi
- (2.4.2013) Easter 2013, Ruokolahti, Schutz: 7 Worte augmented with corals etc. Starts at c. 6:45. I am the theorbist to the right. :-)
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Information and pictures of my lutes - measures, makers, etc.

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