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“In Japan, there are many unavailable collections of musical sources (musical notes, books on music, etc.). Of primary consideration is the Nanki Music Library, founded by Marquis Yorisada Tokugawa (1892-1954) in Azabu-Iikura, Tokyo in 1918, which includes autographs of Beethoven, Liszt, and other composers. The Nanki Music Library was the first public musical library in Japan and actively collected many rare musical sources from throughout the world, such as the bibliotheca of William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), a British music educator. The Library was closed to the public in 1931 due to financial difficulty of the Tokugawa family; nevertheless, international attention has remained focused on the collection.

This project aims to design and create digital content materials from such sources with the expert assistance of digital archivists at the studio of the Research Institute for Digital Media and Content (DMC), Keio University. The digitized musical contents will be distributed internationally, and will enhance Japan’s contribution to music in the future. Emphasis in the digitization process is both on the applicability of the collections’ structure to other musical archives and its potential for use in the development of new educational materials. ..”

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Kenneth Sparr’s site on the Guitar, the Lute and the Early Keyboard

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Added on: Apr 17, 2010 | Hits: 311

"Founded by Boston-area recorder teacher Sheila Beardslee in 1995, CONCORDIA CONSORT is the performance ensemble representing Recorders/Early Music Metrowest, the metroWest’s participatory early music program. For over a decade, Concordia has contributed period music for over 200 services at churches throughout New England. Concordia has been heard in live broadcast on for WCRB, WHRB and WGBH Radio and has performed in concerts historic King’s Chapel in downtown Boston, for the Concord Museum, at Middlesex Community College, MIT Chapel, Williams College and other venues. " ...

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“From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Libraries possessing this collection find they are able to fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of graduate scholars - from their desktop! - in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. ..“

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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.)

Added on: Oct 08, 2008 | Hits: 315

"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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“For more than 30 years we have been known as specialists in early music. We send music editions and books on music all around the world. ..“

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"A-R Editions is the leading U.S. publisher of modern editions of early music. Six series within Recent Researches in Music span the history of Western music, while a seventh series explores oral traditions in music. We also publish Collegium Musicum: Yale University and Music of the United States of America (MUSA). Browse our on-line catalog, or read the Recent Researches newsletter, Embellishments. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Mar 11, 2008 | Hits: 319

"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.)

Added on: Jul 07, 2008 | Hits: 319

"Primavera Music is a small company founded and jointly owned by the members of the ensemble OPUS 4. Primavera Music produces CDs, edits and publishes music, imports strings for viola da gamba and hand-made thumb-rests by Ton Kooiman for clarinets or large recorders. We also do layout, design and English/Danish translations for CD booklets. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"This site is a place of documentation in music and musicology, reflection, history and theory. It publishes articles, original works and documents. It offers an extensive collection of biographies and encyclopedic articles on music. It provides resources practices. It is also a portal site, insofar as it participates by thousands of links to traffic on the network. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Jul 03, 2008 | Hits: 320

• Hardcover: 592 pages
• Publisher: Indiana University Press; Har/Com edition (April 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253341663
• ISBN-13: 978-0253341662
• Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 18.4 x 3.8 cm

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"The aim of releasing the Bach Bibliography on the Internet is to provide facilities for scholarly community world-wide the most up-to-date and most comprehensive bibliography of J. S. Bach in most useful and efficient way. The database has been kept in private for my own use, and I had to update the database all myself. By making it available for public use, I am expecting that the task of updating is to be shared to some extent by others, thus everyone (including myself) is getting benefit. If you have published books or articles, you are automatically qualified as a contributors. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Artemisia Editions was created by Candace Smith and Bruce Dickey to complement the work of the Italian ensemble Cappella Artemisia, a group of women dedicated to performing music from Italian convents of the 16th and 17th centuries. Extensive research has unearthed a startling amount of music either written by or dedicated to these cloistered nuns — music whose quality reflects the remarkably high standards of the original performances as described in the chronicles of numerous historians and travelers in Italy. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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Very complete site on Bach's life and music.

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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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“John Dowland is without question the most famous lute player and composer of all time, arguably more popular now than at any time in the past, including his own time. His fame is justifiable. Whatever musical genre he turned to, whether solo lute, song, vocal or instrumental ensemble, he created something without precedence and set the path for others to follow.

This website aims to celebrate his genius, record his complete works for free download, and provide thoughtful analyses of his oeuvre. Here you will find recorded performances by both professional and amateur lute players, singers and viol consorts, and possibly other instrumentalists and ensembles as well. You will also find essays by renowned academics and by performers moved to describe the experience of performing Dowland's works.

The existence of the site depends on contributions - in all areas: performances, videos, essays, scores, etc. If you feel you have something to contribute, please go to the Contributions page in the first instance. I particularly hope to hear from viol players and singers. ..“

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"York Early Music Press was founded to disseminate high quality scholarly performing editions of music composed pre-1800.

Its editors, both in-house and guest, are leading scholars in their fields. All the editions are computer set, and available as sheet music or on CD-ROM. ...

York Early Music Press was launched in July 2001 in association with the Department of Music, University of York, the Heslington Foundation and York Early Music Foundation " ...

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"Rondo Publishing is owned and run by Jacqui Robertson-Wade, one of the Midlands' foremost viol players and teachers. She initially studied at Trinity College with Edgar Hunt and Gwyneth George, and recently returned to Trinity to do postgraduate work on late French viols and the pardessus de viole. She has performed extensively on the professional concert scene, as a soloist and with her trio, "Musica Leonarda", playing with leading early musicians such as Ibi Aziz, Jenny Bullock and the counter-tenor, Joseph Schlesinger. In 2003, she gave the world premiere of Christopher Wood's "Chantry Suite" for pardessus de viole, written for Cecile Dolmetsch. She has also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and professional dance groups such as Saltarello.

As a teacher, Jacqui has been hugely influential in promoting the viol in schools. Since 1998, she has built up an extensive tuition programme for Warwickshire County Music Service. Around 40 pupils a year now study viol. Jacqui also gives workshops and demonstrations for children, and runs a number of childrens' viol consorts, which have played at major festivals throughout Britain. She is a regular tutor at the annual Norvis Summer School in Durham.

Jacqui is now applying her extensive experience to create musical editions which enable students and performers alike to get the most from the music. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Why I give away Free Tablature and Free Music I am hoping it's sort of like a drug addiction. You play the free tune, think it's sort of nice maybe, and then dismiss it. But then a while later, you find yourself humming a tune, and can't figure out what it is. You finally figure out it's something I wrote, then you play it more and more often, as you get better at it, you become addicted, you need more. You are then forced to send me money for new pieces to supply your new habit. You start to come to the page every week hoping to see new tunes. It's all an insidious plot.

Website by Allan Alexander.

Tags: lute, mandolin, guitar, GuitarAndLute.com

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• Hardcover: 576 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Mar 31 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415937655
• ISBN-13: 978-0415937658

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“This site is dedicated to the librettos and librettists. It will provide librettos, biographical notes and documents regarding libretto technique, themes, aesthetics, and staging.

The focus on the baroque age won't prevent to broaden  the views to other periods, especially through thematic sections and picture exhibitions.“

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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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"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.)

Added on: Jul 30, 2008 | Hits: 346

“At Music 4 Recorders you will find free, creative arrangements for your recorder ensembles. Arrangements are in .PDF format (free Acrobat Reader) and the all links are working. But, if you need parts, e-mail me at . ..“

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