Early Music Resources on the Web
Well Met!
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.
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Arto Wikla's Music Page
- 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.
The Classical Music Pages by Matt Boynick
- This site covers classical music in general, but has a fair amount of information about Medieval and Renaissance
composers and music styles.
Classical Net by L.D. Lampson
- 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.
Early Music Institute at Indiana University
- This site offers links to some useful
resources on early music.
Early Music Sites
- by The Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh
Early Music Page by T. McComb
- This site has a very useful FAQ (answers to Frequently Asked Questions)
and List of Recordings.
E.M.G.'s Guide to Early Music Resources on the Internet
- Part of the
Early Music Guild site.
Studio aHOYO Early Music Home Page
- This site includes a library of scores and a list of links.
- To the Table of Contents
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Alexandre H. Hohmann's Early Music Page
- This site contains lyrics and midi files for a small number of pieces.
Alfonso X, el Sabio 1221-1284
- This site contains transcriptions and translations of the texts of
several of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, early Spanish songs of praise.
Ars Subtilior
- This site contains a number of midi files of this late fourteenth
century style of music. There is also information on composers of this style.
The Cantigas de Santa Maria
- Facsimiles and information about this set of over 100 13th century Spanish songs in praise
of the Virgin Mary.
Del's Dance Book
- 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.
- There are mirrors of this site in
Australia and
Canada.
Internet Renaissance Band by Curtis Clark
- A large collection of midi files of Medieval and Renaissance Music.
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The Lieder and Song Text Page
- An archive of lyrics, some with translations.
Much of this is post-medieval.
The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft
- Image files and transcriptions of the lyrics of many of the works of
Thomas Ravenscroft (fl. ca. 1600).
Pre-1600 Ballads: A work in progress... by Greg Lindahl
- Information about pre-1600 ballads, including some transcriptions of lyrics
and image files of manuscripts.
Pre-1600 Songs
- Part of
Cantaria: A learning library of bardic music.
- A small archive of transcribed and translated lyrics, some with
audio files.
Studio aHOYO Early Music Home Page
- This site includes an on-line library of scores and a list of links.
- To the Table of Contents
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Lexicon Musicum Latium The Theory of Music in the Middle Ages
- A list of sources and other information about music theory
in the Middle Ages.
- This site is in several languages, none of them English.
Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum (TMI) Home Page at Utrecht University
- This site moved, and now seems to be available only through the
Computer & Letteren Home Page.
- 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.
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum at Indiana University
- An archive of Latin Texts on Music Theory from the Middle Ages and
Renaissance. No translations are given.
- To the Table of Contents
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CANTUS Homepage: available through
World Wide Web or
Gopher
- A Database for Gregorian Chant at the Catholic University of America
- This site provides information about and indices of a large number
of original manuscripts of gregorian chant.
Early Music Periodicals: Past and Present at Indiana University
- An extensive descriptive bibliography of periodicals on the
topic of early music.
Monumenta Musicae Byzntinae at the University of Copenhagen
- An inventory of microfilms and photos of manuscripts.
The Music of the Fourteenth Century
- An inventory of manuscripts containing music from the 14th century.
RISM: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
- International Inventory of Musical Sources
- 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."
- To the Table of Contents
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CANTUS Homepage: available through
World Wide Web or
Gopher
- A Database for Gregorian Chant at the Catholic University of America
- This site provides information about and indices of a large number
of original manuscripts of gregorian chant.
The Gregorian Association (UK)
- A society to to promote the study and practice of plainsong. Their site contains
some useful information on chant and its performance.
The Gregorian Chant Homepage
by Peter Jeffrey at Princeton University
Gregorian Chant Notation
- A page on the neumes used in Gregorian Chant notation, and how to read them.
Gregorian Chant Tutorial
- A small number of articles covering the basics of Gregorian Chant.
Notitiae Cantus
- An International Newsletter for Gregorian Chant and other Repertoires of
Western Chant. This site has a number of articles published online.
- To the Table of Contents
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CIMCIM Home Page
- 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.
Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
- 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.
Gaelic Harps & Harpers in Ireland & Scotland
- An interesting article on the history of harps and the bardic tradition, including
the period of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Nice pictures.
A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
- This site is sponsored by the
Musica Antiqua ensemble at Iowa State University.
The Guitar Pre-1650 by Joe Bethancourt
- A very interesting article detailing the history of early
guitar and lute-like instruments.
Orpheon - Museum of Historical Musical Instruments
- This online museum includes a collection of photographs of instruments,
mostly strings. Much of the collection is 18th century, but some is earlier.
Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures
for the Lute, Vihuela, Guitar, and Cittern
- Compiled by Dr. Gary R. Boye.
- 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."
- To the Table of Contents
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Early Music America Magazine
- A magazine produced by
Early Music America with online articles on various early music topics.
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
- Published online by the Society for Seventeenth Century Music.
Love in the Arts by Paul Brian
- This site includes study guides that contain information on
Medieval Love Songs and
Renaissance Love Songs.
Newsgroup: rec.music.early
Picture Gallery of Classical Composers
- This gallery includes indices by name or time period, and includes
some Medieval and Renaissance Composers.
Ricercares a quatto voci by Vinenzo Galilei, 1584
Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander.
- This page includes an article on the composer, Galilei,
and the style of his music, and midi files of the music.
Salamone Rossi (1570 - 1630)
- 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.
- To the Table of Contents
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home, country roads...."
Sharon Spanogle's Medieval Web Site
- Go to
My Medieval and Renaissance Page
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My Page on Medieval and Renaissance Women
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- This page written and maintained by Sharon Spanogle
- Please e-mail me if you have any suggestions for more links, or if there are any
problems with links on this list.
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