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The Desert Pipes (Phoenix) and the Central Highlands (Prescott) ARS chapters invite our recorder friends near and far to join us for our annual summer workshop in the cool pines of Prescott, AZ.
  

NewBEMF is a unique musical experience, held annually in the stunning seaside resort of St. Andrews, NB, just 60 minutes over the US border from coastal Maine.
  

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“I was born in Italy where I had specialized in historical building of Renaissance and Baroque viole da gamba as well as Medieval instruments since 1983. In 1994 I moved my atelier to Belgium where I'm currently living. I have also extended my research for reconstruction and reproduction of baroque cellos using not only a baroque set up but also baroque way of building them.
  

Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) Early Music Week III: On the Eloquent Mysterium

The School of Music, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Association Pro-Culture and Promotion of the Arts (APPA) will hold the “III Semana de Música Antiga da UFMG: do mysterium eloquente” workshop from 2 to 11 September 2011.
  

Fenton House, the opulent 17th century country house located in Hampstead featuring the Benton Fletcher collection of Early Keyboards, have just begun their season of concerts!

Recercare - Journal for the Study and Practice of Early Music

The following is the summary of this edition …
  

This year, the organ academy will have access to the best English organs of Gothenburg, specifically the Willis organ in Örgryte New Church and the newly installed Walker organ in Christ the King Catholic Church.
  

Home to the famous Jean de Boizard organ (1714) the Saint-Michel abbey has welcomed for the last several years, the most sought after artists of ancient music.
  

“In the Italian opera world of the seventeenth century, laments and mad scenes were a genre in themselves. These scenes were often the highlights of the performances and the stars were most often women. The pure voice, the female singer and her capacity for embellishing and embroidering the music were objects of lively discussions in the academic circles of that time. The concept of ”pure voice” is once again in focus in a new thesis, the first of its kind in the subject Performance in Theatre and Music Drama at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
  

WOMEN IN MUSIC: SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA
Almería, Andalousia 7th - 9th October
Instruments: harpsichord, clavichord, piano (solo, chamber and ensemble)
  

Norberto Broggini plays "Para quién crié yo cabellos" -abridged version-by Antonio de Cabezón on the Anonymous Triple-fretted Clavichord (Flemish, c.1620) of the Mirrey Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, Edinburgh.
   

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Ex cathedra Records, part of Early Music Foundation, New York.

Early Music Foundation consists of a primary performing enterprise, EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK - FREDERICK RENZ, DIRECTOR, and a recording label, Ex cathedra Records. The EMF also serves as a not-for-profit umbrella for its associate projects: New York Early Music Celebration, Parthenia- A Consort of Viols, and an online early music events calendar, Polyphony.com.
  

An intensive week-long workshop in the principles of baroque style and performance practices and how they can be adapted to modern instruments.  (Singers are also welcome to apply.)
  

From the pages of the hurdy-gurdy mailist: “I made a video about rosining and correcting problems. Neil added a note about using a wood block which is good advice to follow.“
  

“The editors of Analytical Approaches to World Music welcome submissions that engage the analytical, theoretical, and cultural aspects of the panoply of world musical traditions.
  

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“Born in Prague, Petr Wagner studied cello at the Prague Conservatoire with Josef Chuchro. This was followed by studies in musicology at the Charles‘ University in Prague and at the Royal Holloway University of London. There he was introduced to viola da gamba by Richard Boothby, later continuing with Jaap ter Linden at the Akademie für alte Musik Dresden.

The Caecilia-Concert is pleased to announce the dates for our Summer Academy, to be held from 22-27 August 2011 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The course will run in collaboration with the Utrecht Festival for Early Music, Utrecht Music Conservatoire and the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague.
  

Baroque Opera Workshop
for Singers, String Players, and Continuo Players

The Institute for 17th Century Music at Queens College will offer a one-week, intensive training program in Baroque opera. 
  

“These papers where chosen from the more than 60 papers presented at the conference symposium: 3rd International Conference on Integrity, Reliability & Failure. Of interest to early music instrument builders: “Vibration Testing for the Evaluation of the Effects of Moisture Content on the In-Plane Elastic Constants of Wood used in Musical Instruments , by M. A. Pérez, P. Poletti and L. Gil “
  

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“Luca de Paolis, holds a degree in musicology with honours from the Bologna University, moreover he specialized in musical paleography from the Renaissance Institute in Rome. He has studied recorder with Paolo Capirci and kees Boeke.
  

Newly published at Libreria Musical Italiana (LIM Editrice srl) and compiled from a long list of contributors.
  

This calculator is useful only for calculating the tensions and diameters of strings made of homogeneous material!
  

“In a previous issue of this Journal, I presented a survey of original consort flutes and a study of their pitches in relation to treatises and musical compositions in which flutes were included. The present article deals with acoustics and mathematics
more than with musical issues.
  

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Since 1975, Laurent Soumagnac builder and restorer of harpsichords, passionate for his craft. This passion for "l'art du geste" leads to national award in 2004 "Restoration et Conservation" of the Société d'Encouragement aux Métiers d'Arts.
  

“LONDON — Almost everyone I meet here has heard about “Anna Nicole,” the new opera by the British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, which will have its premiere on Thursday by the Royal Opera at Covent Garden.  …