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"Welcome to the personal website of music historian, lecturer, broadcaster and early music critic Brian Robins. On the site you will find a range of articles, interviews and a selection of reviews. " ...

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“Early Music Today is for all who enjoy playing, singing or listening to early music. It spans all areas of the subject, with features on today's top soloists and ensembles, issues of performance practice and innovative projects and festivals taking place worldwide. Our news and views sections will keep you up to date with all the latest events and discoveries in the early music world, while our listings section offers extensive coverage of concerts all across the UK.”

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“ Journal of the National Early Music Association

A twice-yearly journal edited by Dr Andrew Woolley, containing features and articles of special interest to practical musicians, both amateur and professional. It also contains a wide-ranging list of recent journal articles dealing with issues related to performance practice.”

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Richly-illustrated magazine published quarterly by the Oxford University Press; the leading periodical devoted to performance practice from the Middle Ages to the Romantic Era. Substantial articles and extensive reviews of books, music and recordings, read by amateurs and professionals, scholars and performers, instrument makers and listeners. Advertising contact Jane Beeson em.adverts@btopenworld.com

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“Baroque Guitar - Vihuela - Renaissance Guitar - Early mandolin - Gittern etc ... For all GUT STRUNG historical guitars and related plucked, fretted instruments pre Torres .. .”

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“Although today it is virtually unknown, the cistre ou guitarre allemande was a popular plucked instrument in France (and the Low Countries too) in the decades leading up to the Revolution in 1789. Instruments and music first appeared in the 1760s (see *) but by the 1790s the cistre was in decline. …”

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“Bach Network UK welcomes artists, scientists, Bach scholars and performers, and indeed anybody who is seriously interested in Bach’s music. The central aim of the network is to facilitate contacts that will encourage thought about Bach and his music: thought that may be quite different from the established terms of academic discourse.  …“

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"Welcome to the site dedicated not only to the lute and guitar music but also to all what is connected with the stringed musical instruments played by plucking and their development from the Renaissance epoch. On the whole the lute theme is touched upon as undeservedly forgotten instrument, which was not only the forefather of the classical guitar but also of all other stringed musical instruments played by plucking. On this site you will learn history of the lute, will get acquainted to family of lute instruments, will get access to library of notes and tabulatures and learn, how played, play, and to play on the lute. The site is supplied with an extensive collection of links. Here you can receive any additional information on the given subject. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Welcome to The Recorder Player's page. With this page, I hope to provide you updated information and resources to recorders. If you miss something at these pages, send me an email and I'll get back to you as fast as I can. …”

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"The Tijdschrift Oude Muziek (Early Music Magazine) is the quarterly publication of the Organisatie Oude Muziek. It offers its readers background information about the concerts, news from the world of early music, and cd reviews, concert listings, classifieds etc. ..." Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“The time is ripe for a revival of the early music revival. The pioneers of today’s flourishing early music movement – the people who put Baroque and earlier music back on the map – are fading into obscurity. A new blog, The Early Music Pioneers Archive (www.semibrevity.com), combines research with documents, video interviews, photographs and digitalized clips (from LPs, 78s and private recordings), to refocus attention on a host of musicians, scholars and instrument makers who deserve to be remembered. …”

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"The Dulcian or Curtal is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon, developed in the first half of the 16th century. The Dulcian has the conical expanding bore from the Shawm, and the folded two parallel bores from the Sordune and Kortholt.

Like many other instruments in the renaissance, Dulcians were made in a family, soprano until contrabass. The smaller instruments up to the bass, are in general made from one piece of wood. Larger instruments are in many cased made from two or three pieces of wood.

In the 17th century, the small Dulcians are getting less and less important. At the same time the baroque Bassoon is developed, while the bass Dulcian is still in use. A special situation is found in Spain1, where still in the 19th century various sizes Dulcians are in use. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Welcome to my site, which is devoted to early music.” Changes, updates etc. are also announced on twitter by the site’s owner.

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“After enjoying the traditional English and European dance music of Blowzabella for many years, I finally succumbed to the temptation of learning to play the hurdy-gurdy myself.  I own a Symphonie from Chris Allen in the UK and have an electro-acoustic hurdy-gurdy on order from Denis Siorat in France.  Previously, I rented a Gotschy Phoenix and am taking lessons from René Meeuws in Nijmegen.

This website simply collects some of the wonderful information and resources I have stumbled across.  If you’ve found an interesting site, or want to submit a review of an instrument, book, CD, concert, etc?  Please email me and I’ll be pleased to add your contribution to the site.  Similarly, please let me know if you find any broken links or other site issues.“

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“Clavichord International is aimed at both the expert and the amateur. It includes interviews, articles on historic clavichords and restoration practice. Italso deals with repertoire and composers, including a piece of (usually unpublished) music in each issue. There are CD and music reviews, and a list of current evens and reports from the clavichord societies all over the world.“

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“Explore the musical world of Jacob van Eyck (c1589/90-1657), one of the most remarkable figures in Dutch musical life during the Golden Age: a nobleman, blind from birth, widely known as a carillonneur, leading expert in the field of bell casting and tuning, and... admired as a brilliant recorder virtuoso. His demanding solo variations, preludes and fantasias from Der Fluyten Lust-hof are both loved and feared by recorder players today, all over the world. ..” Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“This website is dedicated my research into the Life, Times and Works of the 18th century Sicilian Prelate, harpsichordist, violoncello player and composer Monsignor Antonino Reggio.

Monsignor Reggio was first mentioned in 1770 by the English musician and writer Dr Charles Burney who described him as a 'a pretty good composer and performer on the harpsichord and violoncello’. He also mentions Reggio had ‘2 or 3 delicate-toned harpsichords and a good library’. Reggio is also as possessing ‘the best Italian harpsichord for tone’ that Burney had heard in his travels. In his summing up on his visit to Rome, Burney describes Reggio as ‘eminent for [his] skill in the art, and learning in the science of sound’.

Later his prowess as a musician is described by the writer and poet, Giovanni Gherado De Rossi, as ‘a man of great intellect, erudite, and very deep in music.’

No information regarding Monsignor Reggio is recorded in any standard musicological source. Given that Dr. Burney considered him ‘a pretty good composer’, my research next focused on the possibility of his works being extant.

Although there is no direct reference to Reggio there is an oblique reference to an 18th century composer, A. Reggio, mentioned in an article in MGG. The author discusses the style of oratorios by Alessandro Scarlatti and Rinaldo da Capua and concludes that these are Intermezzi Sacra.  He mentions that the same style was being used later in the century in works by the ‘Neapolitaner,’ A. Reggio. The Author of the article was Rudolf Ewerhart. Ewerhart was one of the major scholars to study the manuscripts in the Santini collection in the Bischöfliche Bibliotek (now the Diözensanbibliothek) in Münster.  This led me to discover 16 manuscripts in  Santini Collection of the  Diözensanbibliothek. It is fortunate that many of these manuscripts contain dates, places and names of dedicatees so the following work is based upon my work on these annotations.”

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"Starting in 1989, RECERCARE publishes scholarly articles on Italian music and musical culture, and on the musical relations between Italy and other countries from the fourteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century. The journal accepts texts in Italian, English, German, French and Spanish. For articles not in English, English summaries are provided."

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“An on-line agenda that lists all the early music events (concerts, seminars, courses) planned in Rome.“

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Site on the Renaissance Flute. View website for more information. (ed.)

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"This site, as an extension and integration of the main Haendel.it website, is intended to cover a variety of musical or non-musical topics related to the Baroque Music and to the XVII/XVIII centuries. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“This website aims to please all those interested in the recovery of great masterpieces of Italian organ artistry, by presenting the results of years of research and work on the restoration of the organ of the Cathedral of Orte.

The subject of this site is the restoration of the only extant organ made by Domenico Benvenuti, one of the great organ makers of Renaissance Rome; the organ, made in Orte, was later modified and enlarged by Domenico Densi, an organ maker from Terni, and is the only remaining testimony of his work.

The inauguration of the restored organ, which took place on May 18, 2001 with a memorable concert given by Maestro Wijnand Van de Pol, was preceded by a conference in which the volume “The Restoration of the Organ of the Cathedral of Orte” (edited by Casa Editrice Gramma, Perugia) was presented.

This website follows the same pattern as the book, without intending to be its copy. In particular, in the pages which discuss the restorative interventions and the measurement tables, edited by the organ maker Maestro Riccardo Lorenzini, we have tried to include all of the topics addressed in the book, underlining some of its most important passages. With regard to the reconstruction of the drapery, we present a report by the fabrics and tapestry restorer Professor Piero Montelli; those who are curious about the issues related to the practice of covering the organs using antique fabrics, will find the report stimulating.

As for the archival study presented on this site, after the important remarks by Professor Armando Fiabane, we have chosen to present only the original contracts from 1582 and 1720 which, in our opinion, are of prevalent historic interest, even though the book deals with numerous other documents from 1565 through 1945 that also have significance for the history and custom of the city. To the scholar interested in consulting the book, its location can be found clicking on “vendita libro”.”

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Annual publication published by the Società Italiana di Musicologia (Italian Musicological Society) (SIdM).

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“A project dedicated to the reporting of early music through reviews, concerts reports, articles, essays. A space where the most dedicated fans meet to exchange opinions, ideas, insights, and to communicate the way they interpret, listen, live early music.”

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“Artists, critics, tour operators, cultural operators, fans: Baroque in Rome wishes to become a meeting point where we can exchange news and opinions and share the interest and passion for art and beauty. Our website, our facebook and Google+ pages, our Twitter account are all different paths leading to that agora that we hope will not only be virtual: exhibitions, concerts and cultural events could shortly host among their audience a group of friends of Baroque in Rome who are ready to enjoy the opportunities that the eternal city offers its curious souls.”

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