EarlyMusicNews.Org

“18th Century Music has been launched to be an interactive music resource on the web. We invite contributions from academics and students, performers and audiences alike and ask only that you become a member of the site and that what you submit is both interesting and informative.

Start a debate in one of our forums, get your work published electronically, you can even get a free web-based email address here!

We provide resources like composer biographies, stylistic descriptions, reviews and comment, in addition to links to other music sites and services. Please join our 18th Century 'Family' and take part in promoting and discussing this amazing part of musical history.

18th Century Music is also linked to Cantata Editions which prepares and publishes the work of editors around the globe, presenting 17th and 18th century musical works in accurate performing editions.“

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"The Academy of Saint Cecilia takes its name from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, in effect the musicians' union in seventeenth century Rome of which Corelli, Pasquini and Alessandro Scarlatti were members.

The sphere of interest is early music, interpreted loosely as music dating before 1825.

General Meetings are held twice yearly in central London. An admission ceremony is followed by a musical entertainment and refreshments.

Members receive twice yearly the Academy's news letter, VOX, detailing forthcoming events and members are invited to submit articles for publication.

It is hoped that in the future it will be possible to hold occasional meetings outside London and to arrange visits to places of relevant musical interest.

The Academy is a social and learned society and not an examining body.

From time to time the Chapter may award Honorary Fellowships in recognition of an individual's musical contribution. "

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"From classical to jazz and pop - the whole musical spectrum is on offer at Benslow, with an all year programme of day and residential music courses and music summer schools. In our friendly and supportive atmosphere all adults can enjoy inspiring tuition from professional musicians with a choice from 140 music courses every year.

Based at Little Benslow Hills in the attractive market town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, the campus is an ideal venue for the Trust's music courses and concerts. The facilities are also available for hire for meetings, rehearsals, training courses, social functions, and personal study. The elegant Victorian house and grounds are complemented by the stunning Waldeck wing, completed in 2000, funded with the support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England.

We hope that you will find your visit to this website interesting and helpful, and that we shall be able to welcome you to Benslow in person soon. Benslow Music Trust (BMT) is an independent educational charity. " Visit this site for various early music programmes. (ed.)

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“The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment is a new and fast-expanding research centre with an annual programme of lectures, seminars and conferences on every aspect of the Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century – from debates about tolerance and freedom of speech, questions of intelligent design and atheism, to issues of colonialism and commercial economy.

We bring together internationally renowned scholars, post-doctoral fellows, graduates and undergraduates in every major discipline across the Humanities – Classics, English, French, German, History, History of Art, History of Science, Music, Philosophy, Russian and Theology.

We are multi-lingual and multi-media. We work in all the major European languages and with manuscripts, books and images, as well an electronic database of letters written by the significant figures of the Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century.

The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment is currently funded by the Voltaire Foundation.”

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"The Centre for Early Music Performance and Research at Birmingham (CEMPR for short), was founded in 1998 by Dr Mary O'Neill and Professor John Whenham. ...

Their aim was to create a centre with international links which, uniquely in higher education institutions in this country, brings together academic and performance research in early music at the highest professional level. CEMPR also exists to co-ordinate and encourage all kinds of early music activities within the Music Department and the University, from lessons for beginners on Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque instruments and in early vocal techniques, through workshops, master classes and concerts, to postgraduate programmes in performance practice, international symposia and research projects. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"Find out on this site about my demonstrations of early musical instruments...... get lots of background information about early musical instruments (including sound clips and photographs), hear sound clips from my album Early Music, hear clips from my musical literacy teaching programme Live Recorder and find out how I can provide background ambience for your special events. " ...

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"This course began life as the Welsh Early Music Week at Swansea in 1984 and in 2000 found a new and comfortable home in St. George's School, Ascot. It is designed for players of viols, recorders and other early instruments. " ...

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“The Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre is an interdisciplinary initiative involving some three dozen scholars and curators at the University of Liverpool and National Museums Liverpool. Its objective is to promote study and research in the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural life of the global eighteenth century across disciplines and departments at the University of Liverpool.”

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“With 58,776 letters and documents and 7,114 correspondents as of March 2011, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

Scholarship with added value

Drawn from the best available critical editions, EE is not simply an “electronic bookshelf” of isolated texts but a network of interconnected documents, allowing you to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period and the making of the modern world.

But that's not all. The EE team have created an ongoing programme of expanding, linking and original scholarly research to give you:

• thousands of newly composed biographical notes;
• tens of thousands of corrections of minor errors;
• scores of thousands of expansions of abbreviations and sigles;
• hundreds of thousands of internal links and cross-references

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• Ranked consistently in the top 5 English departments in British Universities (see University Guide 2011)
• An internationally diverse and vibrant cohort of expert staff
• Ranked third in The Guardian's teaching quality table in 2011
• A major base for research into comparative literary studies and offers distinctive and imaginative programmes of study at both undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Scored a 100% at 4* (highest possible) rating for the department's 'Environment and Esteem' in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
• Established strengths in comparative European literatures, medieval and early modern studies, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, Romanticism, literature and gender, and literary and cultural theory
• More recent areas of focus include colonial and postcolonial studies, world literature, drama and performance, and contemporary writing
• Home to the Warwick Writing Programme, the largest and most comprehensive of its type in Europe

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"In any profession, the move from student to practitioner is always difficult and if you are a talented young baroque musician, difficult might sometimes seem like impossible. The problem is one of experience: to work with a top orchestra you need experience, but you can’t get the experience you need without working with a top orchestra. EUBO bridges this ‘experience gap’.

Every year EUBO invites 100 talented young baroque musicians from across Europe to take part in one of the three-day audition courses. The 29 successful candidates, usually from at least 13 EU countries with an average age of 24 years, then spend six months together, training, touring and performing throughout Europe and further afield under the world’s leading baroque specialists.

At the end of each year, the students of EUBO move on into the professional world and the whole process from audition to graduation, begins again. EUBO has been so successful in its mission that there are now former EUBO students in every major professional baroque ensemble in the world, including, for example, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre, English Concert, Europa Galante, Academy of Ancient Music, La Petite Bande, The King's Consort, Concerto Copenhagen and Les Arts Florissants. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Welcome to the Faculty of Music of Oxford University, one of the largest and liveliest music departments in the country, and an internationally renowned centre of musical teaching and research. The Faculty came top of the ‘research power’ rankings in the most recent (2008) Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), with 50% of its research rated as ‘world-leading’ and the largest number of research active staff submitted by any Higher Education Institution in the UK. It gained the highest (5*) rating in the two previous RAEs of 1996 and 2001, and was ranked best UK music department by both The Times and The Independent in their most recent surveys.

… Our undergraduate and graduate curricula are strong in traditional musicological and musical skills, but are also notably wide-ranging and imaginative, reflecting contemporary developments in music and musicology; and alongside these formal programmes we organise and participate in a stimulating variety of concerts, masterclasses, workshops, public lectures, and conferences. Our resources include the internationally important Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, a high specification electronic music studio, an Indonesian gamelan,  and specialised resources for the study of performance. The Faculty's research and teaching strengths cover a broad spectrum, including European music of many periods, ethnomusicology, composition, opera, film music, analysis and music theory, the psychology of music, performance, and performance practice.”

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“Research and Performance of Historical Arts and Culture“

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“The purpose of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is to promote the growth, development and coordination of studies and research relating to the eighteenth century in all aspects of its cultural heritage (historical, philosophical, ideological, religious, linguistic, literary, scientific, artistic, juridical) in all countries, without exception; the Society is non-profit-making and non-political.

Its function in particular is to promote communication and the circulation of information between national societies for eighteenth-century studies.

Its aim is:

to foster exchanges, contacts and meetings between eighteenth-century specialists of all countries;

to give moral support to cultural events (conferences, exhibitions, etc...) related to the eighteenth century, or commemorating its great figures and its accomplishments;

to promote the creation of national societies in countries where none are in existence.

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“Language and Music for Life was born in Spring 1997 and is committed to providing training in both music and foreign languages to students of all ages, with a lower age limit of 10 years old  for the main Summer course, from 3 to 10 years old for the Peter Pan Course and no upper age limit.

The first LMFL summer course was held in 1997 and has grown in size and quality ever since.

Our music and language project functions in a context which is rich in individual ability, motivation, language, culture and generations.

Learning is not to be restricted to its manifestation in performance, though this is an essential part, but is to be intimately linked to the dynamics of the whole individual who is able to learn while changing, and able to change while learning.

 

Our linguistic premise: a language is learned not just for its own sake but also for a purpose. Language is used to communicate, to organise music making with others, to facilitate professional development and because we want to enjoy exchanges with those whom we have chosen to be with, and like, and because we don't want to live like a "foreigner" in an English speaking environment.

 We learn a language to live and, as the name of our organisation puts it, to survive. …”

LMFL offers summer music programmes with some early music instrument instruction. Visit the LFML website and summer workshop listings for more information. (ed.)

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"The Northern Recorder Course was founded in 1966 by Dennis Bamforth and Colin Martin and has grown to become one of the foremost recorder courses in the world. Repertoire from the Medieval period to the present day is studied in a variety of ensembles including Renaissance Band, Multi Choir, Recorder Orchestra and one to a part playing. There is a large choice of tutors and music in each playing session, allowing you to tailor the course to suit your individual interests. A particular feature of the NRC is that the full-time tutors teach for a maximum of two courses in a row, thereby ensuring that the course always feels fresh and vibrant with innovative classes. This is reflected in the interesting and unusual range of music available to be studied, complimented with classics from the recorder repertoire. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“The Royal Musical Association is the foremost society in the UK dedicated to the study of music.  Founded in 1874, its principal objectives are the advancement of scholarship and scholarly publication.  Membership is open to any individual interested in musical research.

The RMA supports a national programme of conferences and study days promoting excellence in all fields of musical enquiry including historical and critical musicology, practice-led research, music analysis, composition, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music and science in all its forms, and inter-disciplinary investigations. …”

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“On 16 October 2008 the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth Century studies (SCECS) was launched at Chawton House Library. SCECS brings together specialists from a broad range of disciplines (English, History, Music, and Philosophy) and draws on a rich research culture at Southampton in eighteenth-century studies.  …

Members of the group have expertise in areas including Jane Austen, gender theory, women’s writing, Gothic literature, eighteenth-century fiction, political economy, eighteenth-century philosophical aesthetics, Anglo-French female literary networks, slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world, gardens, landscape and aesthetics, education, crime and criminality, and writing for children.  …”

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“Tim Crawford worked for 15 years as a freelance lutenist and theorbo player, during which time he worked with most of the leading conductors and ensembles active in baroque music, and played on a number of recordings made during the 1980s. In 1989 he joined the Music Department at King’s College, London, where his active interest in using computers to aid with musicological investigation became a professional one. He is the current editor of the Sämtliche Werke of the great German lutenist, Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750), an exact contemporary and friend of J.S. Bach.“

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"York Early Music Foundation was established in 1994 to provide long-term support for the world-acclaimed York Early Music Festival and to promote complementary events through the rest of the year. The establishment of a national centre for early music at St. Margaret's Church in Walmgate, York, will fulfil the Foundation's two central aims: to provide a permanent home for the annual Festival and to establish a national focus for the study of early music. " ...

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“The American Historical Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies.

The AHA provides leadership for the profession, protects academic freedom, develops professional standards, aids in the pursuit and publication of scholarship, and supplies various services to sustain and enhance the work of its members.

The association’s principal functions fall within four realms: publication, teaching, advocacy, and networking. As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA serves historians representing every historical period and geographical area.

The nearly 14,000 members include academics at universities, two- and four-year colleges, museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, but also independent historians, students, K–12 teachers, government and business professionals, and countless people who, whatever their profession, possess an abiding interest in history.  …”

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" Most of the information on this Web site was compiled during my research in Italy under a Fulbright Scholarship in 1991-1992. The information contained here is primary research; the result of my visits to over two dozen libraries in Italy, France, and Great Britain where I studied over 100 examples of printed guitar tablatures. My doctoral dissertation, "Giovanni Battista Granata and the Development of Printed Guitar Music in Seventeenth-Century Italy" (Duke University, 1995), resulted from this research. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Aliénor promotes new music for the harpsichord through concerts, commissions and a competition.

The "Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Competition" was started in 1980 under the aegis of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society (SEHKS). Aliénor is now an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible. Aliénor runs the quadrennial harpsichord composition competition, publishes winning compositions, and commission new works for the harpsichord. There have been six competitions thus far, with over 400 new scores generated from composers around the world. The 2004 competition had 85 entries, with compositions coming from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, numerous European countries, and 15 states in America. "

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"The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 as a non-profit organization to advance "research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship." In 1951 the Society became a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies. At present, 3,300 individual members and 1,200 institutional subscribers from forty nations are on the rolls of the Society.

The Society is governed by a Board of Directors, elected by the membership at large, consisting of six directors-at-large and five officers. An elected Council of sixty regular members and thirty student members advises the Board of Directors concerning the general policies of the Society. Within the framework of the Society are fifteen chapters, geographically circumscribed divisions covering all of the U.S. and Canada. The chapters hold meetings, at such time and place as determined by their elected officers, to bring the activity of the Society to the local level and make participation in the affairs and concerns of the discipline available to all.

To fulfill its declared purpose and to create a community of scholars, the AMS conducts a variety of enterprises. From the very beginning the Society has held annual meetings; these run from Thursday afternoon to Sunday noon on a weekend near the beginning of November. Concurrent sessions to accommodate the reading of about 145 papers form the core of the meetings, which also include study sessions, panel discussions and forums on a variety of topics. Concerts, exhibits, and social and business functions engage the time and interests of members beyond the scholarly sessions. The meetings are held in metropolitan centers from coast to coast in both the U.S. and Canada. Depending on the site of the meeting, attendance varies from 1,200 to 1,900. Abstracts of papers read are available for all in attendance and are for sale after the meetings. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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“On February 19-21, 2010, the First International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM) convened on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. There, scholars from five continents representing the disciplines of music theory, ethnomusicology, musicology, cognitive psychology, computer science, and mathematics, as well as performers from a diverse array of musical cultures and traditions, came together with a common desire to engage in a unique cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogue, and in so doing, to promote and further enhance our collective understanding of the vast body of music we in the west commonly refer to as "world" music. What resulted was a compelling discourse that exceeded the expectations of all involved, and forcefully prompted the organizers to make the AAWM conference a biennial event. Indeed, plans are currently underway for the conference's second installment, which will occur at The University of British Columbia in May of 2012.

The creation of the online journal Analytical Approaches to World Music represents an attempt to capture, sustain, and further extend this remarkable dialogue in a written format that is easily accessible to the widest possible audience. Within its pages, we aim to deliver the same broad spectrum of approaches, repertories, and musical issues in the form of articles, book reviews, letters to the editors, critical forums, and the like. In addition, the journal website will also host online discussion boards, with which we seek to provide a valuable forum for more informal discourse that fosters a stimulating exchange of ideas amongst scholars and musicians from across the globe.“

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