EarlyMusicNews.Org

"All the files are derived from public domain music in editions that are in the public domain. So you may freely copy, print, distribute the files. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"English version of project of Musicantiga, the first portuguese site dedicated to Early Music in its whole. With biographies, musical scores, audio files, manuscripts, links and agenda of events all through Europe and America ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Free Scores for downloading. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Musedita is a small publishing house set in Albese con Cassano (province Como, Italy). Its owner and artistic director is Alessandro Bares, a professional musician interested in baroque music since 1990, when he started studying baroque violin at the "Centre de Musique Ancienne" in Geneva and musicology at the "Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale" in Cremona (now"Facoltà di Musicologia" , University Pavia).

Many professional musicians and musicologists co-operate with Musedita, by proposing their own transcriptions, making us know about unknown music, giving us photocopies of ancient manuscripts and prints: Monica Pelliciari (baroque violin and viola), Cristiano Contadin (viola da gamba player), Vittoria Rosapane (violinista e musicologist), Marco Ghirotti (organ player), Giuseppe Fochesato (musicologist), Robert Ischer (cornett player), Alain Gervreau (baroque cello player), William Dongois (cornett player), Han-Jakob Bollinger (cornett player), Pasquale Spiniello (organ player), GianGiacomo Pinardi (lute player), Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba player). ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The publishing house Edition Walhall was founded by Franz Biersack in 1993 and is based in Magdeburg/Germany, Richard-Wagner-Straße 3.

Meanwhile, in addition to Church Music as one central field of work Vocal Music and Baroque Music (here particularly sheet music for viola da gamba, violin and trumpet) have turned out to be our other main editing focusses.

Edition Walhall is the world-wide distributor of editions by the German publisher Edition Güntersberg specialising in music for viola da gamba and consort music as well as the British RG Editions run by the Baroque violinist Richard Gwilt (London Baroque). ..." visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Purpose of this site:

To give access to everyone to download, print and distribute scores and others for free. Here you can find modern editions and transcriptions for recorders. All original scores are in public domain, without author's rights. My engravings are not copies of commercials modern editions. If I do arrangements of free modern editions, then I will ask the permission to the author and I will write his copyright on the document. All my documents are under Free Art License. If you think you have author's rights on those documents, please contact the webmaster.

Free Art License

With the Free Art License, you are authorised to copy, distribute and freely transform the documents. You can copy those documents for your personal use, for your friends or for any other person, by employing whatever technique you choose. You will find a specimen of this license on the site Copyleft Attitude http://www.artlibre.org/ " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"This site and its affiliates make available the research, editions and transcriptions of a number of musicologists and performers around the world. We invite submissions for inclusion from anyone interested in the field, encourage discussion of issues concerning the genre as well as any related issues.

We specialise in publishing works which are difficult to find or have not been reproduced in modern editions. All of our editions are based upon the original manuscripts or period printings and editorial changes are clearly marked so that performers are able to make informed choices in preparing the works. Most of the music in the catalogue has never before been available in modern editions or recordings - we invite you to enter the world of this great vocal music.

Cantata Web editions are high quality but incredibly low-priced, presented with informative prefaces and translations where appropriate/available. All Cantata Web editions are printed on heavy (100gsm) paper, comb-bound for easier reading and protected by card and plastic covers. Continuo lines are not realised due to the importance of interpretation for each individual. All editions are provided with a single copy of the score and all instrumental parts. Parts are generally single-sheet except for collections where parts are similarly bound. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Welcome to the new Lute Song website.

The lute song, particularly the English lute song is the passion of those involved with this website. Composers from Dowland to Rossiter and Campion wrote songs for solo voice accompanied by the lute which have become immortal.

Join our quest to make this art form more accessible and to encourage discussion and debate on matters pertaining to the lute song. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Nicola Antonio Porpora Born Naples 17th August, 1686 Died Naples 3rd March, 1768

A celebrated composer and singing teacher, Porpora's ability to set the Italian language to music was internationally acknowledged during his lifetime.

"...The Cantatas of Nicolo (sic) Porpora have been always much esteemed, on account of the excellence of their Recitatives, and the good taste and truly vocal style of the airs…Porpora's Cantatas particularly the Recitatives, are still regarded in Italy as models of perfection for narrative Music…"

He numbered among his students Metastasio, Farinelli, Caffarelli, Antonio Uberti (known as "Porporino"), Regina Mingotti and the composer Franz Joseph Haydn.

The Porpora Project has been established in order to display and support the investigations into the life and music of Nicola Porpora by performer and musicologist James Sanderson.

Through his fascination with the vocal music of this much-neglected composer and singing teacher, Sanderson intends to create an accurate portrayal of the depth and breadth of Porpora's work and the effect it had on music-making in the 18th century.

As new transcriptions and research become available, you will be able to access them through this site and add your comments and suggestions for further or different research angles. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"This website exists to share the music of Alessandro Scarlatti and his contemporaries through editions, recordings, and discussion. It is based largely on the research of Rosalind Halton, Kate Eckersley, and James Sanderson. All of us are performer/researchers dedicated to turning manuscripts of long forgotten music into experiences of music and poetry interwoven.

Most of the music in the catalogue has never before been available in modern editions or recordings - we invite you to enter the world of this great vocal music. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Johann Adolph Hasse Il Sassone (1699 - 1783) was for a number of decades the most prolific and popular composers of opera seria in Italy and German-speaking countries. He was '...a German with the musical passions of an Italian...' A close association with Metastasio and a series of important positions in the musical world meant that his works were presented in an appropriate manner in some of the major theatres of the time from London through Italy and Germany to Vienna.

The Hasse Project plans to make more of his music available through invaluable access to both autograph and copy scores of Hasse's works.

The emphasis will be on his vocal works, initially cantatas and arias, but hopefully we will include some of his major works at a later date. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Francesco Durante

born in Frattamaggiore 31st March 1684
died Naples 30th September 1755

Francesco Durante was a highly respected composer and teacher during the first half of the 18th century in Naples. He chose to concentrate on sacred music rather than the more fashionable opera composition favoured by other Neapolitans and his works became examples of 'good composition' used for teaching.

Durante was primo maestro at the two major Conservatorii in Naples S Onofrio and S Maria di Loreto and taught composers ranging from Sacchini to Piccini and Paisiello. Not a composer of a large quantity of work, his music exhibits great skill and invention and a dramatic flair well suited to the style of music he chose to write. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"We hope you will spend time wandering around the site and exploring what exciting music we have to offer, in addition to our articles and composer biographies. Please add to the resources if you can, and submit your music-related site to our links page.

We aim to be a directory and a series of web-based resources for baroque music performers and researchers with a particular bias towards the UK. Join our discussions, add articles and your own editions and transcriptions. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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" ... The Serenata is one of the more fascinating genres of the baroque period. Usually written for a specific occasion such as birthdays or to celebrate great events, the Serenata was neither opera (as it was generally performed at most in a semi-staged manner) and more than a cantata (although many serenatas were subtitled Cantata à 2/3/4/5 etc).

The research of the people involved in this site revolves around the works of Neapolitans like Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Sarri, Leonardo Leo and Nicola Porpora to name but a few. We are editing, performing and recording works within the genre and hope that you will contribute to the site's work by letting us know of your experiences within this style. Performers, musicologists and interested amateurs are all welcome to make comments and suggestions, to contribute music or articles, even advertise performances around the globe. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Baroque Aria has been launched to offer arias from Baroque operas, serenatas, dramme per musiche and cantatas which were much fêted in their day and still stand today as excellent examples of the genre. You can preview, audition and purchase music, much of which is not available in any other place.

Composers such as Handel and Porpora, Giacomelli and Mancini (with occasional forays into the work of composers both earlier and later).

Select the music you'd like to view and suggest music you would like to see available on the site.

We have access to some of the greatest collections of manuscripts in the world, both autograph copies of whole operas and excellent contemporary collections of arias by a vast range of composers. Take advantage of this and the music and articles available. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"This new site is devoted to this incredibly diverse repertoire. Songs and cantatas that astound both performer and audience alike! Much of this repertoire has been unavailable since its original publication and we aim to change that and bring the music to a wider audience. Each song will be available in single form or as part of a larger collection. We have just made it possible to 'pick & mix' your own song volume. Use the 'Song Selector' link on the left to create your own customised collection (at a discount!). ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The University of North Texas Music Library's Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection includes almost 30 rare 17th- and 18th-century scores of operas and ballets by the 17th-century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and his sons. Many of the volumes are 1st editions printed by Christophe Ballard, who held the privelège for music printing under King Louis XIV. Several are 2nd editions, printed by Henri de Baussen or Jean-Baptiste Christophe Ballard. The Collection also contains manuscript copies of operas and one ballet that were probably offered for sale, like the prints, at performances." Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Female musicians at the courts of Ferrara and Parma, 1565-1589

This website comprises the public pages of 'Female musicians at the courts of Ferrara and Parma, 1565-1589', an AHRB-funded collaboration between the ensemble Musica Secreta and musicologist Laurie Stras. The collaboration was formed in order to investigate performing practices at the Farnese and d'Este courts in the latter half of the sixteenth century. The project is generating transcriptions, performing scores and recordings of music associated with the two courts, made available to the wider musical community via this site. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"This web site is devoted to musicians interested in Early Musical Temperaments: performers of all musical instruments, singers, keyboard tuners, instrument makers and very especially to the readers of the Unequal Temperaments book (1978). ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Project Gutenberg EBook of Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th
and 17th Centuries, by John D. Shortridge

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or o­nline at www.gutenberg.net


Title: Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Author: John D. Shortridge
Release Date: November 4, 2008 [EBook #27149]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 "

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“EarlyPianos.org is dedicated to the worldwide cataloging of historic pianos from before 1860. The project furthers the work first published by Oxford University Press in  Makers of the Piano, 1700-1820 and  volume II (1820-1860) by Martha Novak Clinkscale.

The database of early pianos has been continually updated since its publication in 1993 and 1999. It now contains over 6350 historic pianos, with more being added daily. Various options for future publication of the material are under review.

The database tells piano historians about instruments for their research. It also helps owners get in touch with people who have specialized expertise in piano history and preservation.

If you have a piano, or know of one that is not already included in the database, please use this link for several ways to register your piano.

EarlyPianos.org results from a collaboration between Martha Clinkscale and John R. Watson, illustrator of volume 2. This website was launched in May, 2007.

Questions or comments? Please contact us and tell us if you would like occasional email updates about the database and our publications.“

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The principal goal of ECOLM is to store and make accessible to scholars, players and others, full-text encodings of sources of music for the Western-European lute (and other relevant sources), together with graphical images from manuscripts and printed music, such codicological and paleographical detail as is helpful to the potential users, and bibliographical data, including, if possible, the texts of important studies where necessary permissions can be obtained.

Relevant ‘other’ sources might include keyboard versions of lute pieces, but would where possible also be full-text encodings. They would typically comprise music for keyboard, wind or string instruments, especially the viola da gamba, or vocal ensemble.

The technical resources of ECOLM will include facilities for online searching of the bibliographical and musical material, and complete access via the World Wide Web (with suitable restrictions according to the classes of material and user). Also viewing, playing (via computer sound-system or MIDI) of lute music, and printing (again subject to relevant permissions). ..“

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Music for the lute.

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“This database includes all sources to the music of Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758) in the Roman Collection of the Music Library of Sweden, with links to scanned files. The scanning was done in 2005, with the support of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. Works from the collection may be freely searched, downloaded, and printed. They may be published without special permission on the condition that the source of the material (Statens musikbibliotek - The Music Library of Sweden) is clearly acknowledged. The Library expects two complimentary copies of any such publication. Copyright © of the database itself rests with the Library.“

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The database of the Goettingen Bach Catalogue has been maintained by the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig since August 2008.

In addition to database records for all known Bach sources, detailed descriptions of manuscripts along with handwriting samples and watermark tracings will be provided by nearly every German library. (except Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Leipzig, Bach-Archiv, Staedtische Bibl./Musikbibliothek Regensburg, Sammlung Proske)

We refer you to the Bach digital project, currently in progress, with which the Goettingen Bach Catalogue closely cooperates.“

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