Uploaded June 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
The tabs are available for free on my website at http://www.verseandsong.com, where you will also find much more early music, poetry, short stories, and art. You might also like to visit my YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UC6VoXNVtEGkLj0FVzl4aPAA.
Note: the baritone ukulele is tuned in the same ratio (fourth, third, fourth) and is about the same size as the Renaissance guitar, so if you play ukulele and read French tablature (which uses letters instead of numbers and is very easy), these pieces should be accessible to you.
The tabs are available for free on my website at http://www.verseandsong.com, where you will also find much more early music, poetry, short stories, and art. You might also like to visit my YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UC6VoXNVtEGkLj0FVzl4aPAA.
Note: the baritone ukulele is tuned in the same ratio (fourth, third, fourth) and is about the same size as the Renaissance guitar, so if you play ukulele and read French tablature (which uses letters instead of numbers and is very easy), these pieces should be accessible to you.





![Renaissance Lute: Polish Dances from the Danzig Lute Book (1621) Part Two
The Danzig Lute Book, published in Gdansk, Poland in 1621, contains forty-four Polish Dances (Balleti Polachi), which I intend to present in four videos of eleven pieces each. For this series, I am playing from Sarge Gerbodes wonderful edition of this manuscript. The present video offers Polish Dances twelve to twenty-two. ( Please note that the numbers of these dances refer simply to their order of appearance on Sarges website [lutemusic.org], not to their order in the original manuscript.)
Those of you who listen to my recordings regularly know that I generally illustrate them with works of art. Since I have had trouble finding paintings of Polish dances, I have chosen to illustrate these four videos with paintings of the city of Gdansk (by the way, Danzig was the name of Gdansk when it belonged to Prussia or Germany).
If you enjoy this music, you might like to consult my playlist of lute videos here: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLg2GtsZ0EeLtMBkiDQDVzG8rARl6X3WEh/videos. Renaissance Lute: Polish Dances from the Danzig Lute Book (1621) Part Two](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VX2krju6TXc/mqdefault.jpg)




