Find all the lute articles at earlymusicreview.com without a bunch of flute articles creeping into the search

28 April, 2025 - Categories: Music, Early music - Tags: lute, Baroque lute, early music review

By Steven Rosenberg

I'm developing an interest in the lute ­— the plucked-string instrument developed in ancient times and popular between the 13th and 18th centuries in Europe.

Aside from a lot of listening in Spotify, I am looking to read more about the lute and lute recordings. To that end, I found this review of "A Lute by Sixtus Rauwolf: French and German Baroque Music," by Jakob Lindberg, who it seems owns the late-16th century lute named in the title.

Once you begin looking for information on the lute — books, articles, web sites — you start realizing that there is not enough, especially when compared with most other classical instruments.

Eager to find more lute articles at https://earlymusicreview.com, I did a search for lute, which yielded a lot of CD reviews on discs featuring the flute.

How to get just lute and not flute? Sometimes using the minus key will exclude a word from the search results. That does work here.

A search for lute -flute leads to 308 articles, presumably all about the lute.

Time to start reading and listening.