he wealth of excellent music written for Baroque guitar and Baroque lute forms a rich and very important part of the natural repertoire for modern classical guitar. Nevertheless, relatively little of this literature has found its way into common usage. The sources are all in tablature, with which not all guitarists are fully conversant, and few modern editions have provided effective and practical performance versions.
Guitar students often proceed from the well-known "Suite in D Minor" by Robert de Visee directly to the wonderful but ubiquitous and very difficult "Lute Suites" of Bach. An observer might, indeed, conclude that the repertoire contains nothing but these, a few pieces by Sanz, and various transcriptions of works by Bach, Sacarlatti adn Handel. I hope that this collection will help to spur interest in the vast - the largely untapped - repertoire for Baroque plucked-string instruments