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“Pegasus School for Early Music is a private school providing high quality education in music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, within a friendly atmosphere. Early Music is our passion, and we would like to pass this excitement on to you!

For all ages and levels, from children aged 4-5 to teenagers, adults and the general public who is curious about this music and its fascinating background, Pegasus School is here to provide the knowledge in an enjoyable way. Our vision is to expose a wide audience to the beauty and uniqueness of Renaissance and Baroque music played on period instruments and based upon knowledge of the corresponding styles. …”

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Added on: Nov 08, 2012 | Hits: 89

“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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Added on: Dec 02, 2011 | Hits: 123

“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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Portuguese Society of Music Research

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Added on: Nov 04, 2012 | Hits: 143

“Welcome to Portuguese musicologist Luís C. F. Henriques webpage

Luís Henriques was born in Flores Island (Azores). He holds a Degree in Musicology from the University of Évora. His musical interests are Medieval and Renaissance vocal music.

His research interests are 16th- and 17th-century sacred polyphony from the Iberian Peninsula and the New World, especially of composers related to Évora Cathedral; late 18th- and 19th-century Portuguese and Brazilian sacred music; and music in the Azores Archipelago.”

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Added on: Aug 18, 2012 | Hits: 152

“Founded in 2006 by artistic directors Ian Howell and Henry Lebedinsky, Tableau Baroque is an American chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing music of the Baroque to life through emotionally connected, historically informed, illuminating performances. The ensemble’s members met while performing regularly with groups such as the American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and Seraphic Fire. Their mutual admiration blossomed into projects exploring small ensemble music of the Baroque. Previous programs include: Bach, All in the Family – vocal and instrumental music from three generations of the Bach family, Handel’s Inheritance – a musical journey through the formative years of G.F. Handel’s life, and Like a White and Melodious Swan – music from 17th century Italian convents. Tableau Baroque has mounted tours from Maine to Florida and has been presented at Summer festivals by both Seraphic Fire and the Whidbey Island Music Festival.”

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Added on: Feb 18, 2012 | Hits: 158

“The Giorgio Cini Foundation is a non-profit cultural institution based in Venice, Italy. It was constituted by Vittorio Cini, in memory of his son Giorgio, with the aim of restoring the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore (devastated after 100 years of military occupation) and of creating an international cultural centre that would re-integrate the Island into the life of Venice.

«The Giorgio Cini Foundation’s mission is to promote the redevelopment of the monumental complex on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and encourage the creation and development of educational, social, cultural and artistic institutions in its surrounding territory.»

The creation of the Foundation was one of the most considerable private initiatives of the 20th century. The importance of this undertaking was borne out by the initial investment committed to rehabilitate the Island and by the many events the Foundation has promoted or hosted since. It is further substanstiated by the cultural patrimony conserved on the Island and, since 1984, at the Gallery of Palazzo Cini at San Vio.

Alongside the Foundation's commitment to its own research and the conferences and seminars growing out of this work, the Island welcomes events sponsored by distinguished cultural and scientific organisations. It has even been the site of major international summits (inprimis the G7 in 1980 and 1987).

The role of the Giorgio Cini Foundation is attested by the many highly esteemed intellectuals, artists, politicians and economists who have been involved in its programme, and by the recollections of scholars and guests who have spent time on the Island.”

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Added on: Nov 03, 2011 | Hits: 158

“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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“The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is dedicated to the collaborative research, presentation, conservation, and continuity of traditional knowledge and artistry with diverse contemporary cultural communities in the United States and around the world.

The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world. The Center produces the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, exhibitions, documentary films and videos, symposia, publications, and educational materials. The Center conducts ethnographic and cultural heritage policy oriented research, maintains the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, and provides educational and research opportunities through fellowships, internships, and training programs. The Center also produces major national cultural events consistent with its mission. In 2004 these included the National World War II Reunion and the First Americans Festival for the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian.”

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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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“Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär is a conference group dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary work on the culture, politics, and society of German-speaking Central Europe during the early modern period. The group sponsors a triennial conference organized around a theme intended to explore and integrate current research interests in the disciplines of literature, history, the history of science and medicine, music, art history, and historical theology and the history of religion.”

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Added on: May 16, 2011 | Hits: 176

“Juilliard’s graduate-level Historical Performance program was established in September 2009, achieving immediate recognition as one of the leading programs of its kind. The department’s faculty members include many renowned performers, scholars, writers, and teachers in the field of period-instrument practice, as well as the members of Juilliard Baroque, one of four resident ensembles at Juilliard.

As a student in the tuition-free program, you will work closely with our dedicated faculty members and enjoy regular performance opportunities of a wide variety of repertoire for small and large ensembles and solo recitals in a number of public venues. Juilliard415, the School’s student period-instrument ensemble, performs works from the 17th and 18th centuries in concert venues at Lincoln Center and beyond. You can also gain valuable interactive performance experience by participating in one of Juilliard’s educational or community outreach programs.

NEW MAJORS OFFERED—Beginning in the 2012-13 academic year, Historical Performance is adding the following majors: Viola da gamba (Sarah Cunningham) and plucked instruments (Patrick O’Brien). Click here for audition requirements.

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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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Added on: Oct 13, 2011 | Hits: 184

“The Peabody Conservatory continues to expand its offerings in the historical performance of music before 1800. The early music program provides instruction and performance opportunities in medieval, renaissance, baroque, and early classical music. Students play on period instruments and develop vocal techniques compatible with early performance practices. Our accomplished faculty brings a wealth of performing and teaching experience to developing artists.

Graduates of Peabody’s early music program have gone on to win prizes at international competitions, earn Fulbright and Beebe scholarships, and graduate from European conservatories with high honors. Peabody graduates have performed with Apollo’s Fire, the Baltimore Consort, Hesperus, Les Arts Florissants, the New York Collegium, the Waverly Consort, the Folger Consort, the Washington Bach Consort, and Tempesta di Mare.”

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Added on: Nov 12, 2012 | Hits: 187

Music Division of the Royal Society of Sciences in Zeeland

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Added on: Sep 27, 2011 | Hits: 199

“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 Académie Bach can essentially be defined from its celebrated summer festival; discoverer of new young talent in France; in its support and promotion of early music.

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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.)

Added on: May 28, 2011 | Hits: 206

“Since its conception in 1999, Modus center for Medieval music in Oslo, Norway, has become a vital meeting point for scholars and performers interested in all aspects of medieval music. Under the direction of Gro Siri Johansen, Modus center for medieval music in Oslo has organized workshops and symposia on a variety of topics including chant performance, early polyphony and the performance of medieval songs.”

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“Statement of Purposes

1. To provide a full-time Fellowship in research:
2. 1. Analysis of Bach's music and historical treatises pertaining to the roots and development of his form and structure.
   2. The influences of past cultural and religious traditions on his music and thought.
   3. His influence on contemporary composers and their productions.
      
      The period of the Fellowship is to equal one to two semesters duration. Preference will be given but not limited to Fellows with newly-acquired Ph.D. degrees in Musicology, Performance, or Composition. This grant will also be available to established scholars of distinction.
3. To provide a full-time Fellowship in research in disciplines other than music on the conceptual and/or structural relationships of these concepts in Bach's music and other disciplines such as mathematics, physics, and other scientific disciplines. This grant will be available solely for established international scholars. The period of the Fellowship is to equal one or two semesters duration.
4. To further the studies of promising young performers:
5. 1. In multiple levels of technique in all media in solo instrumental, solo vocal, choral, and ensemble.
   2. In far-ranging musicological requirements in study of Bach's music.
   3. On period and contemporary instruments.
6. To provide grants:
7. 1. For the continuing organization and completion of Rosalyn Tureck's numerous articles and essays. These grants will be available on application to graduate students working on their Ph.D. degrees or on their first year following the successful completion of their Ph.D. thesis.
   2. For the completion of Rosalyn Tureck's unfinished editions and books. The first of the grants has been awarded to Zachariah Mark Victor, a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the Yale University School of Music.
      These grants will be available to established scholars in cooperation with performers, where desirable.
8. The awards for each of these Fellowships to be selected by the Tureck Bach Research Institute Musical Consultants and endorsed by chairmen of University departments of Performance, Musicology, and Composition.
9. The Fellowships and Grants to be known as the Rosalyn Tureck Awards.
10. To encourage the creation, promulgation and fund raising for a ‘Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition for Young Pianists’ anywhere in the world, but particularly in the United States and Russia. …“

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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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“The Music Library Association is the professional association for music libraries and librarianship in the United States. Founded in 1931, it has an international membership of librarians, musicians, scholars, educators, and members of the book and music trades. Complementing the Association’s national and international activities are eleven regional chapters that carry out its programs on the local level.

MLA publishes the journal Notes, the world’s leading journal in its field.

MLA’s development program attracts individual and corporate donors whose financial support further the purposes of the Association —

• to promote the establishment, growth, and use of music libraries
• to encourage the collection of music and music literature in libraries
• to increase efficiency in music library service and administration
• to promote the profession of music librarianship“

Added on: May 15, 2011 | Hits: 216

“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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“Located in a hilltop medieval village in southern Tuscany, the Piccola Accademia di Montisi has been founded to provide a center of inspiration for musicians worldwide who have an interest in the harpsichord, its repertoire and its history.

The staff and trustees of the Piccola Accademia bring together significant experience in music, the broader arts, government, charitable foundation governance and business.  We see our role as providing a platform from which teachers, students, performers and audiences can build an academy in Plato’s sense of that word, meaning a place for developing and exchanging an advanced philosophy—which in our case is the philosophy of historic musical performance.  We will ensure that resources are gathered and managed appropriately, balancing the economic health and stewardship of the Piccola Accademia with providing access to the broader musical and local community.“

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Added on: Apr 29, 2011 | Hits: 224

“Brepols Publishers is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities.

The focus of its publications lies in "source-works" from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. By this is meant critical editions of original texts and documents in their original language, reference works such as encyclopaedias, handbooks and bibliographies, as well as monograph studies and cutting-edge research.

Brepols Publishers' mission is to publish works with an outstanding academic reputation in the field of Europe’s cultural roots and sphere of influence. Such publications fall mainly within the disciplines of history and archaeology, language and literature, music, art and architectural history.“

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