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“The Peabody Conservatory continues to expand its offerings in the historical performance of music before 1800. The early music program provides instruction and performance opportunities in medieval, renaissance, baroque, and early classical music. Students play on period instruments and develop vocal techniques compatible with early performance practices. Our accomplished faculty brings a wealth of performing and teaching experience to developing artists.

Graduates of Peabody’s early music program have gone on to win prizes at international competitions, earn Fulbright and Beebe scholarships, and graduate from European conservatories with high honors. Peabody graduates have performed with Apollo’s Fire, the Baltimore Consort, Hesperus, Les Arts Florissants, the New York Collegium, the Waverly Consort, the Folger Consort, the Washington Bach Consort, and Tempesta di Mare.”

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Added on: Nov 12, 2012 | Hits: 160

“Pegasus School for Early Music is a private school providing high quality education in music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, within a friendly atmosphere. Early Music is our passion, and we would like to pass this excitement on to you!

For all ages and levels, from children aged 4-5 to teenagers, adults and the general public who is curious about this music and its fascinating background, Pegasus School is here to provide the knowledge in an enjoyable way. Our vision is to expose a wide audience to the beauty and uniqueness of Renaissance and Baroque music played on period instruments and based upon knowledge of the corresponding styles. …”

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Added on: Nov 08, 2012 | Hits: 85

Portuguese Society of Music Research

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Added on: Nov 04, 2012 | Hits: 138

“Welcome to Portuguese musicologist Luís C. F. Henriques webpage

Luís Henriques was born in Flores Island (Azores). He holds a Degree in Musicology from the University of Évora. His musical interests are Medieval and Renaissance vocal music.

His research interests are 16th- and 17th-century sacred polyphony from the Iberian Peninsula and the New World, especially of composers related to Évora Cathedral; late 18th- and 19th-century Portuguese and Brazilian sacred music; and music in the Azores Archipelago.”

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Added on: Aug 18, 2012 | Hits: 145

“Since its conception in 1999, Modus center for Medieval music in Oslo, Norway, has become a vital meeting point for scholars and performers interested in all aspects of medieval music. Under the direction of Gro Siri Johansen, Modus center for medieval music in Oslo has organized workshops and symposia on a variety of topics including chant performance, early polyphony and the performance of medieval songs.”

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Added on: Feb 24, 2012 | Hits: 196

“Founded in 2006 by artistic directors Ian Howell and Henry Lebedinsky, Tableau Baroque is an American chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing music of the Baroque to life through emotionally connected, historically informed, illuminating performances. The ensemble’s members met while performing regularly with groups such as the American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and Seraphic Fire. Their mutual admiration blossomed into projects exploring small ensemble music of the Baroque. Previous programs include: Bach, All in the Family – vocal and instrumental music from three generations of the Bach family, Handel’s Inheritance – a musical journey through the formative years of G.F. Handel’s life, and Like a White and Melodious Swan – music from 17th century Italian convents. Tableau Baroque has mounted tours from Maine to Florida and has been presented at Summer festivals by both Seraphic Fire and the Whidbey Island Music Festival.”

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Added on: Feb 18, 2012 | Hits: 151

The Académie Bach can essentially be defined from its celebrated summer festival; discoverer of new young talent in France; in its support and promotion of early music.

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Added on: Feb 03, 2012 | Hits: 197

“The American Historical Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies.

The AHA provides leadership for the profession, protects academic freedom, develops professional standards, aids in the pursuit and publication of scholarship, and supplies various services to sustain and enhance the work of its members.

The association’s principal functions fall within four realms: publication, teaching, advocacy, and networking. As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA serves historians representing every historical period and geographical area.

The nearly 14,000 members include academics at universities, two- and four-year colleges, museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, but also independent historians, students, K–12 teachers, government and business professionals, and countless people who, whatever their profession, possess an abiding interest in history.  …”

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Added on: Jan 30, 2012 | Hits: 166

“The Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini (Onlus) of Lucca was established in November 2005 to carry out the editorial work relating to the complete works of the lucchese composer Luigi Boccherini. The choice of Lucca as a location is not by chance: Luigi Boccherini was born in Lucca, so it is the natural site on which to launch the Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini's Complete Works. The Centro Studi also hosts the work of the Italian National Edition of the Opera omnia of Pietro Antonio Locatelli and the musicological series Speculum Musicae, Studies on Italian Music History and Monumenta Musica Europea. Furthermore, the staff of the Centro Studi carry out the scientific and editorial work of numerous international musicological publications, including Boccherini Studies, offering the definitive record of international scholarly debate on the composer, and, together with other musicologists, the journal Ad Parnassum. A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music, and the series Ad Parnassum Studies. The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini organizes International Conferences and Symposia on various musicological topics and has founded the Boccherini Festival. The Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini-Onlus is a member of the Fondazione Promo P.A. di Lucca (www.promopa.it)”

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Added on: Dec 09, 2011 | Hits: 250

Centre for the Study of the Fairground Theatres and the Comédie-Italienne

The Centre was created in 1999 by Françoise Rubellin, professor at the University of Nantes, following the international colloquium entitled “Les théâtres de la Foire 1678-1762”, with the support of two great specialists, Barry Russell from England (creator of the website foires.net) and David Trott from Canada, both deceased. The original project was to create a lasting link between researchers who were geographically dispersed, and to favour an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together theatre, music and dance: the Fairground plays are more show libretti than simple literary, textual objects.

Today, the Centre extends its research and its publications to the repertory of the Comédie-Italienne, having as a priority to edit manuscripts of plays that have never been re-edited, and to restore their musical dimension.

• The Centre is working on the publication of several plays still in manuscript versions only of the Fairground theatres and the Comédie-Italienne in the form of separate editions or of collections.
• The Centre is currently undertaking research on parodies of opera, with the support of the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), the Région Pays de la Loire and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange-Guépin.
• The Centre trains numerous students in research during their MA and PhD theses, and provides access for them to an important number of microfilms of unedited plays, as well as a specialised collection of documents.
• The members of the Centre (PhD candidates and MA students included) publish articles and present papers in colloquia in France and abroad.
• The Centre actively collaborates with specialised researchers in the field of Fairground theatres and the Comédie-Italienne in France and abroad (Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, etc.).
• The Centre works in partnership with several cultural structures dedicated to music and theatre, in Nantes and in the region Pays de la Loire (Angers Nantes Opéra, Le Grand T, La Folle Journée of the CRÉA) as well as with ensembles (Hugo Reyne’s Simphonie du Marais) and troupes (Thierry Pillon’s L’Éternel Éphémère, Chantal David’s Bel Viaggio). With them, we put into place activities for communication, creation and research development.
• The Centre has organised, for over ten years, a monthly seminar, study days and colloquia.

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“On 16 October 2008 the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth Century studies (SCECS) was launched at Chawton House Library. SCECS brings together specialists from a broad range of disciplines (English, History, Music, and Philosophy) and draws on a rich research culture at Southampton in eighteenth-century studies.  …

Members of the group have expertise in areas including Jane Austen, gender theory, women’s writing, Gothic literature, eighteenth-century fiction, political economy, eighteenth-century philosophical aesthetics, Anglo-French female literary networks, slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world, gardens, landscape and aesthetics, education, crime and criminality, and writing for children.  …”

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“The Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre is an interdisciplinary initiative involving some three dozen scholars and curators at the University of Liverpool and National Museums Liverpool. Its objective is to promote study and research in the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural life of the global eighteenth century across disciplines and departments at the University of Liverpool.”

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“The Age of Philosophy saw a surge of interest in empirical science, humanistic inquiry, and cosmopolitan societies. It also witnessed a surprising fascination with ancient mythologies, alchemy, divine arcana, and secret societies. Did this dark side of the Enlightenment have anything in common with the rational undertakings of the day, or was it a remnant from times past? This digital archive will allow students and scholars to explore the strange, yet uncannily familiar, writings of French authors who went beyond John Locke's famed "limits of human understanding," in order to investigate the mysterious perimeters of knowledge - but often progressed with the same wit and epistemological concerns as Parisian philosophes. The ideas and practices of these writers (often dismissed as "illuminist") may thus best be understood as constituting a sort of "Super-Enlightenment," a category which begs a larger, open question: did the more orthodox Enlightenment thinkers ever cross over to the other side themselves?”

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“The purpose of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is to promote the growth, development and coordination of studies and research relating to the eighteenth century in all aspects of its cultural heritage (historical, philosophical, ideological, religious, linguistic, literary, scientific, artistic, juridical) in all countries, without exception; the Society is non-profit-making and non-political.

Its function in particular is to promote communication and the circulation of information between national societies for eighteenth-century studies.

Its aim is:

to foster exchanges, contacts and meetings between eighteenth-century specialists of all countries;

to give moral support to cultural events (conferences, exhibitions, etc...) related to the eighteenth century, or commemorating its great figures and its accomplishments;

to promote the creation of national societies in countries where none are in existence.

Added on: Dec 02, 2011 | Hits: 208

“With 58,776 letters and documents and 7,114 correspondents as of March 2011, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

Scholarship with added value

Drawn from the best available critical editions, EE is not simply an “electronic bookshelf” of isolated texts but a network of interconnected documents, allowing you to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period and the making of the modern world.

But that's not all. The EE team have created an ongoing programme of expanding, linking and original scholarly research to give you:

• thousands of newly composed biographical notes;
• tens of thousands of corrections of minor errors;
• scores of thousands of expansions of abbreviations and sigles;
• hundreds of thousands of internal links and cross-references

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Added on: Dec 02, 2011 | Hits: 121

“The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment is a new and fast-expanding research centre with an annual programme of lectures, seminars and conferences on every aspect of the Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century – from debates about tolerance and freedom of speech, questions of intelligent design and atheism, to issues of colonialism and commercial economy.

We bring together internationally renowned scholars, post-doctoral fellows, graduates and undergraduates in every major discipline across the Humanities – Classics, English, French, German, History, History of Art, History of Science, Music, Philosophy, Russian and Theology.

We are multi-lingual and multi-media. We work in all the major European languages and with manuscripts, books and images, as well an electronic database of letters written by the significant figures of the Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century.

The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment is currently funded by the Voltaire Foundation.”

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Added on: Dec 02, 2011 | Hits: 197

“Welcome to the Faculty of Music of Oxford University, one of the largest and liveliest music departments in the country, and an internationally renowned centre of musical teaching and research. The Faculty came top of the ‘research power’ rankings in the most recent (2008) Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), with 50% of its research rated as ‘world-leading’ and the largest number of research active staff submitted by any Higher Education Institution in the UK. It gained the highest (5*) rating in the two previous RAEs of 1996 and 2001, and was ranked best UK music department by both The Times and The Independent in their most recent surveys.

… Our undergraduate and graduate curricula are strong in traditional musicological and musical skills, but are also notably wide-ranging and imaginative, reflecting contemporary developments in music and musicology; and alongside these formal programmes we organise and participate in a stimulating variety of concerts, masterclasses, workshops, public lectures, and conferences. Our resources include the internationally important Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, a high specification electronic music studio, an Indonesian gamelan,  and specialised resources for the study of performance. The Faculty's research and teaching strengths cover a broad spectrum, including European music of many periods, ethnomusicology, composition, opera, film music, analysis and music theory, the psychology of music, performance, and performance practice.”

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“The Giorgio Cini Foundation is a non-profit cultural institution based in Venice, Italy. It was constituted by Vittorio Cini, in memory of his son Giorgio, with the aim of restoring the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore (devastated after 100 years of military occupation) and of creating an international cultural centre that would re-integrate the Island into the life of Venice.

«The Giorgio Cini Foundation’s mission is to promote the redevelopment of the monumental complex on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and encourage the creation and development of educational, social, cultural and artistic institutions in its surrounding territory.»

The creation of the Foundation was one of the most considerable private initiatives of the 20th century. The importance of this undertaking was borne out by the initial investment committed to rehabilitate the Island and by the many events the Foundation has promoted or hosted since. It is further substanstiated by the cultural patrimony conserved on the Island and, since 1984, at the Gallery of Palazzo Cini at San Vio.

Alongside the Foundation's commitment to its own research and the conferences and seminars growing out of this work, the Island welcomes events sponsored by distinguished cultural and scientific organisations. It has even been the site of major international summits (inprimis the G7 in 1980 and 1987).

The role of the Giorgio Cini Foundation is attested by the many highly esteemed intellectuals, artists, politicians and economists who have been involved in its programme, and by the recollections of scholars and guests who have spent time on the Island.”

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Added on: Nov 03, 2011 | Hits: 153

“The Royal Musical Association is the foremost society in the UK dedicated to the study of music.  Founded in 1874, its principal objectives are the advancement of scholarship and scholarly publication.  Membership is open to any individual interested in musical research.

The RMA supports a national programme of conferences and study days promoting excellence in all fields of musical enquiry including historical and critical musicology, practice-led research, music analysis, composition, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music and science in all its forms, and inter-disciplinary investigations. …”

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Added on: Oct 13, 2011 | Hits: 177

“A strong interest in early music, paralleled with a steadily growing contemporary repertoire, has given the recorder a completely different dimension over the last 50 years. The international image of both styles, in combination with a real professionalism in pedagogical fields, have challenged aspiring recorder players ever since. This period of development has seen the recorder (blockflute) programmed as a solo and chamber instrument in specialized contemporary festivals all over the world. It is a recognized and appealing instrument for composers of all styles, not only because of the wide range of instrument-types, but mainly because of the great abilities and flexibility of the professional player.

Insight into this enormous variety of literature, supported by solid and profound background information, and above all, a highly professional instrumental education, is what the so-called BLOK system offers to serious and motivated recorder students. Besides further digging into historical and traditional subjects, a thorough exploration of contemporary literature and techniques is of major importance.

The BLOK (block) was founded in the 70's by Walter van Hauwe and Kees Boeke and has become a conception for numerous recorder players around the world. From the very beginning the BLOK attracted students from all over the world and it typically contains about 10 nationalities every year. Having studied in Amsterdam seems for many students to be a guarantee for becoming recognized professionals, and many of them have since managed a good and satisfying living as professional and successful recorder players.“

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Added on: Sep 30, 2011 | Hits: 240

“The Academy of Ancient Music in Rovereto, founded in 1979, has been operating for over twenty five years in the region, nationally and internationally for the purpose of research, study and disseminate the music according to principles of historical accuracy, respecting the characteristics of the interpretation of the works and the sounds of musical instruments. This activity takes place through the organization of concerts, performances, conferences, exhibitions, publications, recordings, courses and competitions. The main feature of the Academy of Ancient Music is to directly produce much of this activity, through the commitment of its members: they comprise of academics, teachers and professional musicians, and a good part of advanced students and amateurs in musical practice.”

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Music Division of the Royal Society of Sciences in Zeeland

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“The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is dedicated to the collaborative research, presentation, conservation, and continuity of traditional knowledge and artistry with diverse contemporary cultural communities in the United States and around the world.

The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world. The Center produces the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, exhibitions, documentary films and videos, symposia, publications, and educational materials. The Center conducts ethnographic and cultural heritage policy oriented research, maintains the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, and provides educational and research opportunities through fellowships, internships, and training programs. The Center also produces major national cultural events consistent with its mission. In 2004 these included the National World War II Reunion and the First Americans Festival for the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian.”

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“Juilliard’s graduate-level Historical Performance program was established in September 2009, achieving immediate recognition as one of the leading programs of its kind. The department’s faculty members include many renowned performers, scholars, writers, and teachers in the field of period-instrument practice, as well as the members of Juilliard Baroque, one of four resident ensembles at Juilliard.

As a student in the tuition-free program, you will work closely with our dedicated faculty members and enjoy regular performance opportunities of a wide variety of repertoire for small and large ensembles and solo recitals in a number of public venues. Juilliard415, the School’s student period-instrument ensemble, performs works from the 17th and 18th centuries in concert venues at Lincoln Center and beyond. You can also gain valuable interactive performance experience by participating in one of Juilliard’s educational or community outreach programs.

NEW MAJORS OFFERED—Beginning in the 2012-13 academic year, Historical Performance is adding the following majors: Viola da gamba (Sarah Cunningham) and plucked instruments (Patrick O’Brien). Click here for audition requirements.

Added on: Sep 17, 2011 | Hits: 172

“Statement of Purposes

1. To provide a full-time Fellowship in research:
2. 1. Analysis of Bach's music and historical treatises pertaining to the roots and development of his form and structure.
   2. The influences of past cultural and religious traditions on his music and thought.
   3. His influence on contemporary composers and their productions.
      
      The period of the Fellowship is to equal one to two semesters duration. Preference will be given but not limited to Fellows with newly-acquired Ph.D. degrees in Musicology, Performance, or Composition. This grant will also be available to established scholars of distinction.
3. To provide a full-time Fellowship in research in disciplines other than music on the conceptual and/or structural relationships of these concepts in Bach's music and other disciplines such as mathematics, physics, and other scientific disciplines. This grant will be available solely for established international scholars. The period of the Fellowship is to equal one or two semesters duration.
4. To further the studies of promising young performers:
5. 1. In multiple levels of technique in all media in solo instrumental, solo vocal, choral, and ensemble.
   2. In far-ranging musicological requirements in study of Bach's music.
   3. On period and contemporary instruments.
6. To provide grants:
7. 1. For the continuing organization and completion of Rosalyn Tureck's numerous articles and essays. These grants will be available on application to graduate students working on their Ph.D. degrees or on their first year following the successful completion of their Ph.D. thesis.
   2. For the completion of Rosalyn Tureck's unfinished editions and books. The first of the grants has been awarded to Zachariah Mark Victor, a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the Yale University School of Music.
      These grants will be available to established scholars in cooperation with performers, where desirable.
8. The awards for each of these Fellowships to be selected by the Tureck Bach Research Institute Musical Consultants and endorsed by chairmen of University departments of Performance, Musicology, and Composition.
9. The Fellowships and Grants to be known as the Rosalyn Tureck Awards.
10. To encourage the creation, promulgation and fund raising for a ‘Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition for Young Pianists’ anywhere in the world, but particularly in the United States and Russia. …“

Added on: Jul 28, 2011 | Hits: 209