EarlyMusicNews.Org

“This site is now dedicated to any vocal or instrumental music written in the 20th & 21st centuries which includes lute in a prominent role. The basic philosophy and guidelines for submission have remained the same:

its purpose is to create a platform for composers, publishers & performers to share information about lute music written in the 20th & 21st centuries. There is no intention, however, for this site to be a database of all existing material. A main priority is to provide easier access to audio samples and scores of the material. On this site, therefore, you will not only find brief biographies of the composers, descriptions of the musical works and links to relevant homepages and scores, but also mp3s and links to audio samples of the compositions. Despite the wealth of available material, contemporary lute music is rarely heard at recitals. It is my belief that many lutenists would be interested in new lute music, but are inhibited by ‘fear of the unknown’. It is my hope that this site will encourage lutenists and singers to consider adding modern lute music to their repertoire, and perhaps also compose their own music! ..“

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"I am a swedish composer and I´m living in Tyresö, which is about 20 km southeast of Stockholm, Sweden.

I compose in different early music styles (before 1800). In 2003 I established an assemblage of music in different ancient styles, all composed by contemporary composers. I´ve named it Scharffeneck Collection Of Contemporary Early Music, after the area where I´m working as a church music director, Skarpnäck. Scharffeneck is the 17th century spelling of the name Skarpnäck. The collection includes music of 22 composers from different parts of the world, and at the moment there is some 800 works registred. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Site listing composers of early music written in the traditional early music styles. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Glen Shannon Music was founded in 1998 when the Prelude & Fugue in D Minor for SSATB recorders (now published as SMM100) won first prize in 1997 in the biennial composition contest sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the American Recorder Society. The main focus is publishing music for recorder ensembles, but that could change at any moment. One of the basic rules of my music is that all parts are interesting - after spending years in high school and college concert bands, I learned that it's boring playing all whole-notes on the contrabass clarinet, or in the third clarinet section. So I like to keep everyone interested. The Prelude & Fugue is an excellent example of that philosophy.”

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Here you can find the recorder music by Victor Eijkhout, written to sound appealing, and suitable for solid intermediate level players. All music is downloadable free of charge, but Victor appreciates a copy of a concert program if you ever perform it.

Highlights: Passamezzo and La Folia variations for large ensemble, the Courtly Suite for one recorder and keyboard (with occasional exceptions), and a developing cycle of Canonical Hours for recorder sextet. 

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"What you are listening now are a few compositions I've written over the course of 20 years. I make my living as a musician, playing mandolin in a duo called The Kombis and writing/producing for an original project with Michele Rene. If you want to check those out, they should be in my top 8. Meanwhile, my passion has always been classical music, mostly 17th-18th century music. I've written some books for Mel Bay, but only other people's music transposed for modern-day instrumentation. Lately, I've been back to writing some original compositions and wanted to post them up for others to hear. Maybe I can get them played in a movie or something. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“As a composer, Roman Turovsky-Savchuk largely limited himself to the instrumental idiom of the Baroque lute and the torban, eventually producing numerous instrumental and vocal compositions, some of which were premiered by Luca Pianca at several international festivals (Salamanca, Lisbon, Schwetzingen, Vilnius, Vicenza, Urbino, Metz and Paris), Roland Ferrandi in Corte, Simon Paulus at Wolfenbüttel and Jindřich Macek in Přibyslav. He also collaborated with Paulo Galvão and Hans Kockelmans in a series of experimental works composed jointly. His works have been recorded by Robert MacKillop, and Christopher Wilke on lute, as well as Angelo Barricelli on guitar, and Ernst Stolz on viola da gamba.

As a performer he appeared as a lute soloist and continuo player in the Early Music line-up of Julian Kytasty's "New York Bandura Ensemble"[9]. Roman Turovsky is a recipient of the 2008 NYSCA grant for the purpose of study of kobzar art with Julian Kytasty.

Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is a founding member of Vox Saeculorum and The Delian Society, two international groups devoted to preservation and perpetuation of tonal music.

Since 1996 he has signed his musical works as "Sautscheck", a German transliteration of the second part of his surname, with various first names such as Joachim Peter, Johann Joachim, and Konradin Aemilius. His musical works achieved wide circulation under this allonym. This also caused irritation for a few musicologists who perceived his works as a malicious hoax because of their ostensibly baroque style, and led to a coinage of a new German word, "Sautscheckerei", which denotes a musical or literary hoax.

"Cantiones sarmaticae et ruthenicae", a collection of nearly 300 pieces based on Ukrainian folk melodies by Turovsky, was published under the allonym "Ioannes Leopolita. ..“ (Wikipedia)

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"Welcome to The New Renaissance & Baroque Music Website. This site features original music written in authentic renaissance and baroque styles by composer and harpsichordist Grant Colburn. The music is available in complete editions available for purchase and performance.

The composer Grant Colburn was born in Wisconsin in 1966. Always one to search for the obscure and out of the ordinary in music, the late 70's found him taking an interest in the harpsichord after hearing a recording by Igor Kipnis. Shortly after he attended two summers of harpsichord workshop studying with Igor Kipnis at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. During this time he began writing his earliest compositions in a period style.

Since this time Grant Colburn has written and self published four books of period music. The first called A First Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Organ contains his earliest pieces in the baroque style. The second completed book, Six Setts of Lessons for the Harpsichord along with the third book recently completed titled Six Easy Lessons for the Harpsichord are both highly influenced by the keyboard music of Handel's English Contempories. A fourth book is also in print called A Renaissance Miscellany, which in addition to keyboard music also has instrumental music, songs, and rounds ranging in stylistically in time from the early to later 16th century. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Vox Sæculorum is an organisation devoted to the custodianship of the Baroque Revival in contemporary art music.

Taking inspiration from the Accademia dell'Arcadia, a 17th century Italian scholarly society that counted Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Georg Friedrich Händel as some of its more notable members, Vox Sæculorum offers composers of the contemporary Baroque Revival a forum to showcase their work and offer criticism to other like-minded artists. It is intended as a guild to maintain the integrity of a unique, living tradition ensuring its development and sustenance.

Vox Sæculorum is a natural outgrowth of an informal association between founding members Mark Moya, Giorgio Pacchioni, Michael Starke, and Roman Turovsky dating back to the early 1990s. As leading composers of the contemporary Baroque Revival, these four often shared musical knowledge, engaged in collaborative efforts, and offered constructive criticism of each other's work.

Unlike similar organisations that have been formed in the past, there is no ideological or philosophical slant to our activities. Our members share a common passion for writing music according to the æsthetic precepts of the Baroque era. As an organisational entity, Vox Sæculorum maintains its neutrality in the ongoing conflicts between the various currents of contemporary Western art music and does not assert the superiority of one type of music over another. There is plenty of room in the air for musical variety and it is hoped that, through the establishment of this society, the Baroque Revival takes its rightful place as a legitimate artistic movement. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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