Ronn McFarlane - Guitar Masters Live. In this DVD performance Ronn plays a number of his own lute compositions as well as music of the 16th and 17th centuries. From the Middle Ages through the Age of Enlightenment, lutenists, wrote and performed their own music along with the popular music of their time, By the end of the 18th Century, this tradition was broken as the lute gradually fell out of favor, Ronn's work points the way to the lute' future.