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These pieces are taken from Robert Ballard's 1614 publication "Diverses pièces mises sur le luth." Although their names ("Lute Entrances") might suggest that they served as a kind of prelude to some courtly or theatrical event, they seem to be stand-alone pieces and fall into an initial group of nine and, after a few intervening works, a subsequent group of three. As far as I know, there are no other such "Éntrees de luth" in Renaissance-lute literature.
These pieces are taken from Robert Ballard's 1614 publication "Diverses pièces mises sur le luth." Although their names ("Lute Entrances") might suggest that they served as a kind of prelude to some courtly or theatrical event, they seem to be stand-alone pieces and fall into an initial group of nine and, after a few intervening works, a subsequent group of three. As far as I know, there are no other such "Éntrees de luth" in Renaissance-lute literature.
