This page is meant to be a guide to resources available on the Web
for people who are interested in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
I have tried to find sites with good information on a variety of early
music subjects and styles. I know I have only a small percentage
of what is available on the Web about Medieval music, but I have tried to
make it easier to find what you want.
Please
e-mail me to let me know about good sites that I haven't included yet.
Welcome to my site. Feel free to explore, and please come back again, because I'm
always adding new resources to the list.
In the introduction to this page, the author says "I am mainly interested in the so called 'art music', but in some
extent also in blues, rock and ethnic. I play different types of lutes, and late renaissance and early baroque are
closest to my heart." This page contains a large number of useful Early Music links and information related to
lutes.
This site covers the entire range of classical music, including medieval
and renaissance music. Resources include information on
composers,
basic repertoire for the middle ages and
renaissance,
and links
to other early music sites.
This is a site on Renaissance Dance. It contains a large number of
audio and sheet music files for modern arrangements of the music
for many Renaissance dances.
This project is publishing a series of 16th and 17th-century
Italian manuscripts on music theory on CD-ROM. There are also some
selections available on-line.
The introduction to this site says, "RISM -- the Répertoire
International des Sources Musicales
(International Inventory of Musical Sources) --
represents a worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music
and writings about music from the earliest times through ca. 1825.
The RISM Home Page is a joint production of the RISM Zentralredaktion
at Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and the U.S. RISM Office at Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A."
International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections,
a committee of ICOM, the International Council of Museums.
This site has a number of useful resources for historical instruments
in general, including links to web sites for museums with instrument
collections, and on-line texts of scholarly articles.
This site gives a catalog and other information about the collection of instruments.
The site also includes an
Electronic Picture Gallery of a large number of instruments in the collection.
The introduction to this site says:
"This is an experimental database of printed tablatures for
plucked-string instruments from 1500-1599. It is primarily concerned
with bibliographical information relating to Lute, Vihuela, Guitar,
and Cittern tablatures; it also contains information on three
lesser-known instruments: the Bandora, the Mandora, and the
Orpharion."
This site includes articles on the life, times, and music of this
Italian-Jewish composer. Part of the
Zamir Chorale of Boston web site. The Zamir site also includes a page on
Sephardic Music, some of which dates to the Medieval and
Renaissance period.
