Editing Lute (section)

== 20th century revival and composers ==
[[File:AguilarLuteQuartet1929.png|alt=Four people, three men and one woman, all holding lutes|thumb|The Aguilar Lute Quartet of Madrid, from a 1929 publication]]
The revival of lute-playing in the 20th century has its roots in the pioneering work of [[Arnold Dolmetsch]] (1858–1940); whose research into [[early music]] and instruments started the movement for authenticity.<ref>{{cite book |title=Henry Purcell (Glory Of His Age) |first=Margaret |last=Campbell |publisher=Open University Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-19-282368-X |page=264}} (about Alfred Dolmetsch) "His discoveries were so fruitful that he decided to concentrate on performing early music on original instruments, something that had not been attempted hitherto—at least not outside a private drawing-room."</ref> The revival of the lute gave composers an opportunity to create new works for it.

One of the first such composers was [[Johann Nepomuk David]] in Germany. Composer [[Vladimir Fyodorovich Vavilov|Vladimir Vavilov]] was a pioneer of the lute revival in the [[USSR]], he was also the author of numerous [[musical hoax]]es. [[Sandor Kallos]] and [[Toyohiko Satoh]] applied [[Modernism (music)|modernist]] idiom to the lute, [[Elena Kats-Chernin]], [[Jozef van Wissem]] and [[Alexandre Danilevsky]] minimalist and post-minimalist idiom, [[Roman Turovsky-Savchuk]], [[Paulo Galvão]], [[Robert MacKillop]] historicist idiom, and [[Ronn McFarlane]] New Age. This active movement by early music specialists has inspired composers in different fields; for example, in 1980, [[Akira Ifukube]], a classical and film composer best known for the [[Godzilla]]'s theme, wrote the Fantasia for Baroque Lute with the historical tablature notation, rather than the modern staff one.<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=伊福部昭ギター・リュート作品集 (Akira Ifukube - Works for Guitar and Lute)|others=Yoh Nishimura and Deborah Minkin|year=1996|first=Ryoichi|last=Yokomizo|pages=4|type=CD Booklet|publisher=FONTEC|location=Japan}}</ref>