EarlyMusicNews.Org

"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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"Through their facsimile and instrumental collections, Editions FUZEAU propose a vast choice of scores designed for music schools, conservatories, musicians (professional or amateur), universities, libraries…

Today, FUZEAU editions are known and delivered all over the world. Our web site offers access to all these titles, plus special offers and bargains: don’t miss out on it!

We also have a shop on our premises. All our scores may be consulted and ordered. " 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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Welcome to the Mutopia Project ... a place where music is free for everyone! Download it, print it out, and share it. Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but consists of free sheet music.

Broadly speaking, copyright o­n a creative work expires 70 years after the creator's death. This means that the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and many other composers are in the public domain - in principle, they may be copied and performed without restriction.

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" "What's this thing, Polish Early Music? Never heard of it!" We would be not surprised if you didn't. No offence meant: it is obscure. Here you can listen to some samples of Polish EM and learn a bit about our composers. And if you liked the site and the music, come again or drop us a note. We will be more than happy to help you within the limits of our knowledge and resources. " ...

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Italian motets of the 17th century and other works Edited by Dennis Collins

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“Before starting with this database, I had indices of only a few manuscripts and a whole series of concordances lying scattered around. Then Markus Lutz sent around his compilation of Weiss' works with concordances, with the request to check the concordances, and the spark was generated to put some system in the information I had lying around, using Markus' info as the starting point, amplifying the project to other non-Weiss manuscripts. First of all, I chose a manuscript-based setup, and for each manuscript in my possession I listed the contents, along with the key in which the pieces were given. Where present, the manuscript-own page numbering was followed, while for others and ad-hoc numbering was applied. ..“

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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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“Welcome to J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC, dealers for over 30 years in rare materials relating to Music and Dance dating from the 15th to the 21st centuries including autograph musical manuscripts and letters of composers; first and early editions of printed music; rare books on music and dance; and original prints, drawings and ephemera relating to music and dance. Our firm has a clientele including private collectors, scholars, and major libraries and museums worldwide.“

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Sheridan Germann, Richard Rephann

Co-Author:
Edited by:
ISBN: 0-945193-75-0
Price (US Funds): $54.00 cloth
Series: HISTORICAL HARPSICHORD SERIES No. IV
Status:
Pendragon No.: 474
Period:

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" The Werner Icking Music Archive contains music-related stuff. Click on the name of a subdirectory containing scores, typesetting source files, additional README-files etc., or follow the composer links to enjoy the WWW-presentation of this music archive. The icon image points at images, the icon info at short information, and the icon PDF at a PDF-file. (To view a PDF file you must Download Acrobat Reader .) This is the definitive archive of software related to MusiXTeX, a music typesetting system based on TeX. You must have TeX installed before you can use any of this. To learn about TeX, try a google search on "TeX" and "Getting started" to see what's required. "

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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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In the section of the EarlyMusicNews.org website labeled “(DE) Anton Höger: Lute Intavolations”, are offered pieces for Renaissance lutes in tablature for 2, 3, and 4 lutes in various tunings. All of the pieces have been carefully intabulated by Anton Höger, based his 20-year experience as a lutenist.

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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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“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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"In twenty-eight years we have built up a collection of about 700 titles which cover practically every aspect of musical literature and of various repertoires stretching from the 15th to the 19th centuries and even the 20th century including:

* theoretical, historical and aesthetic works
* instrumental and singing tutors
* basic monographs
* journals and annuals
* instrumental tablatures (especially for lute, guitar, viol and organ)
* facsimiles of particularly important manuscripts (15th-20th centuries)
* facsimiles of musical scores for harpsichord, flute, piano-forte, viola, violin, voice and instrumental accompaniment and chamber music.


The works listed in the present catalogue have been chosen for their practical values as well as for their rarity. Most will be of interest not only to musicologists but also to musicians concerned with rediscovering authentic early performance practices. The resolution of many a controversy about the interpretation of early music is hindered by the inaccessibility of the relevant sources. Two or more works have occasionally been printed together in the same volume, when their subjects were related, with the aim of reducing their price. Forewords more or less developed (in English and in French) have been supplied, for the manuscripts series especially, to explain the choice of the work or the edition, to facilitate its use and to provide information on the author and his work.

Besides the Reprints, this catalogue includes many original works, most notably four important continuing series:

* Anthology of music criticism: Press dossier
* Archives of French music publishing
* Musical iconography
* Publications of the Centre de documentation Claude Debussy "

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“There are hundreds of printed and manuscript books of music for plucked-string instruments from the late fifteenth century through the end of the eighteenth century. Most of these sources were written for the lute or guitar; there were also a few books for lesser-known plucked string instruments: the vihuela, cittern, bandora, mandora, and orpharion, as well as instruments related to the lute such as the arch-lute and theorbo. This site concentrates primarily on sources that employ a notational system called "tablature." Sources which can be played on these instruments but are in standard notation (such as those calling for continuo accompaniment) are not generally included.

The list contains basic bibliographical information for as many of these tablatures as I can find. Sources used include various volumes in the Répertoire international des sources musicales (RISM) series, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2000), and Howard Mayer Brown's Instrumental Music Printed before 1600: A Bibliography (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1965). A variety of other sources were used as well, cited in the bibliographies for each entry, and new sources have come to light since the publication of the core bibliographic works.

This remains a work-in-progress, but I felt the inclusion of manuscripts and materials outside the sixteenth century was important enough to warrant a basic list, however incomplete. I currently have a list of prints and manuscripts from the late fifteenth century to 1800 (the RISM series cutoff) and will be completing information for this list and adding it to the page over the next few weeks. Detailed information on the tablatures will only be available from the sources I have studied either first-hand or from copies and will thus take much, much longer (I am beginning with the tablatures c1500). 

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"Des partitions concernant des pièces du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, aux formats midi et nwc (Note Worthy Composer)"/ Midieval and Renaissance pieces in midi format. ed.)

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"Welcome to EarlyGuitar.net! This page contains transcriptions for classical guitar (solo and duet) of a variety of renaissance and baroque music. The sheet music is available in pdf format, and midi files are available too. Enjoy!

All transcriptions by Dana Hawkes DiAnda unless otherwise noted. Please do not use any of the transcriptions commercially without my permission." ...

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Music for the lute.

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"Alamire Music Publishers concentrates on educational books in Dutch, facsimiles of musical manuscripts and scholarly works for the international market. Our collection of facsimiles of Renaissance and Baroque prints, is discontinued and liquidated at special discount prices." Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Saraband Music is located in Kilcoy, QLD, Australia. Saraband Music began in 1994, selling sheet music and facsimiles, strings and CDs. Publishing began in 1996. In 2004, the business changed to mainly publishing, and the string business was sold to Ian Watchorn in Melbourne. From 2007, Saraband Music continued to publish early music under both the Saraband and Hammer & Tongs Reproductions imprints, and introduced a new range of music and interesting products for customers, including antiquarian maps and cards. A private collection of old books, including many first editions is also being sold.

Saraband Music is owned by Patrice Connelly, who has the degree of M.Mus (Hons) from the University of Sydney. She plays and teaches viola da gamba, and has edited music for viols published by Dovehouse Editions (Canada), PRB Productions (California) and the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain, and written articles and reviews for a number of journals. Her early musical studies were undertaken at the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, before progressing to the Music Department at the University of Sydney. She began playing piano at the age of 8, and violin at age 12. During her B.Mus, she also played viola before giving up both violin and viola for the viola da gamba. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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Catalogue of Handel works. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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