The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (abbreviated as CNRS) has so far published four books on the Renaissance, namely, Musique et Poésie au XVIe siècle, La Musique Instrumentale de la Renaissance, Les Fêtes de la Renaissance, and La Renaissance dans les Provinces du Nord (cf. RN ix, 211 f., and xi, 19 f. and 141 f). The editoris now preparing a fifth volume, dedicated to lute music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As in the case of the earlier publications the symposium on lute music will, in part, present to a wider public the papers read before a congress of scholars convened at Paris in September 1957. A list of these papers will be found at the end of this report, but it would be a mistake to file away the lute volume as another Kongressbericht, for it represents an effort to co-ordinate the work of individual scholars in a field of research where teamwork is sadly needed.