"At first sight La Folia already looks like an interesting building constructed quietly in the course of centuries on the foundations of earlier settlements. It's a great experience to see that the development of the numerous fascinating elements and delicate details is consuming composers, performers and listeners alike as an anchor in musical thought, like a cathedral built during centuries.

For those people who are interested in the folia theme there is a disturbing lack of good sources. The information available is very superficial and can only be found in very general reference works and review articles, apart from the scientifical study by Richard Hudson (see literature) which is only available at specialized conservatories and where the focus is on the transition of the early to the later folia. This website is an effort to collect as much relevant information as possible on la folia. Every contribution, be it a new line of approach, a suggestion or a discussion will be welcomed. Added to that it is almost impossible for one person to check all musical new releases for possible new variations of la folia.

This website was built in the hope that from every part of the world new discoveries will get their names here in the inventory, so that they will be part of a collective musical tradition and awareness.

Finally it serves as a tribute to the still growing organism called La Folia. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Early Music classes and projects are open to students from every department. In keeping with international trends, we define Early Music studies as making music with an understanding of history. We therefore also study performance practice of the post-Baroque. It is our aim to train both Early Music specialists aware of later styles and classical and modern musicians with insight into earlier styles."

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“Godoy Music offers  recorder lessons,  Baroque and Renaissance ensembles,  and Alexander Technique lessons  in a warm, nurturing environment. We work with students of all levels to provide a course of study that matches their individual goals and needs. All lessons at Godoy Music are taught by Héloïse and Justin, professional musicians, and husband and wife with 10 years teaching experience between them. Teachers: Héloïse Degrugillier & Justin Godoy.“

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"From classical to jazz and pop - the whole musical spectrum is on offer at Benslow, with an all year programme of day and residential music courses and music summer schools. In our friendly and supportive atmosphere all adults can enjoy inspiring tuition from professional musicians with a choice from 140 music courses every year.

Based at Little Benslow Hills in the attractive market town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, the campus is an ideal venue for the Trust's music courses and concerts. The facilities are also available for hire for meetings, rehearsals, training courses, social functions, and personal study. The elegant Victorian house and grounds are complemented by the stunning Waldeck wing, completed in 2000, funded with the support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England.

We hope that you will find your visit to this website interesting and helpful, and that we shall be able to welcome you to Benslow in person soon. Benslow Music Trust (BMT) is an independent educational charity. " Visit this site for various early music programmes. (ed.)

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"The Early Music Institute at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music provides a comprehensive program in the study of historical performance on original instruments of music before ca.1800, supplementing performance with research and theoretical studies, leading to degrees at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The faculty consists of internationally known performers who specialize in the performance of early repertory. The EMI is fortunate in enjoying university-wide academic support from disciplines as diverse as musicology, computer studies, literature, medieval studies, and fine arts.

The program includes private lessons in voice and on historical instruments along with extensive solo and ensemble performance opportunities. Academic courses are designed to provide an understanding of the many practical and theoretical areas essential to performance of medieval, renaissance, baroque, and classical music (e.g. improvisation, ornamentation, articulation, basso continuo, solmization, historical notation, bibliography, organology, etc.). Research is encouraged, and opportunities for research are provided both in academic courses and in elective special projects. The faculty of the Early Music Institute makes every effort to accommodate a student's specialized interests without losing sight of a broader commitment to artistic excellence and scholarship. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"("Gothenburg" in flight timetables) is situated o­n the west coast of Sweden: ca. 400 km north from Copenhagen, ca. 300 km south from Oslo and ca. 500 km west from Stockholm. It is the second largest city in Sweden with a population of about 500 000. It has a university of which the School of Music and the Göteborg Organ Art Center are parts. The Göteborg International Organ Academy is arranged by the City of Göteborg in collaboration with the Göteborg University / Göteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt) and the Academy of Music and Drama - also called Artisten ('the artist'). The School of Music, with the address Fågelsången 1 , where the Academy office is to be found, is situated in the middle of the city, near Götaplatsen where the Concert Hall, the Art Museum and the City Theater are located."

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"The Longy School of Music, founded in 1915, is a degree-granting Conservatory and school of Preparatory and Continuing Studies located near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The School serves 200 undergraduate and graduate students, from over 25 states and 20 countries, and more than 1000 children and adults from the Greater Boston area. Longy provides for all of its students a distinguished faculty that promotes profound musical understanding and technical mastery, encourages growth of imagination, and fosters an attitude of inquiry about the role of music and the musician in the larger world."

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“Welcome  to my pages with recorder fingerings! The largest page worldwide for recorder fingerings. - More than 523 charts on-line. ..”

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“The purpose of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is to promote the study and performance of music of the eighteenth century. The Society provides a forum where scholars and performers can further their knowledge of music, history and interrelated arts of the period and serves as a resource to facilitate and encourage collaboration.“

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“ ‘The Convent’, run by an innovative mixed enterprise that was the brainchild of the General Council of the Moselle and the Town of Sarrebourg, and which now includes the International Centre for the Paths of the Baroque and the K617 record label, has today become a truly cultural phenomenon, with a wealth of projects and a bright future in store.

The General Council of the Moselle is proud to support those who make and who shall continue to make this site a place for discovery and encounter, as well as a showcase for artistic and cultural development.“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Centre for Early Music Performance and Research at Birmingham (CEMPR for short), was founded in 1998 by Dr Mary O'Neill and Professor John Whenham. ...

Their aim was to create a centre with international links which, uniquely in higher education institutions in this country, brings together academic and performance research in early music at the highest professional level. CEMPR also exists to co-ordinate and encourage all kinds of early music activities within the Music Department and the University, from lessons for beginners on Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque instruments and in early vocal techniques, through workshops, master classes and concerts, to postgraduate programmes in performance practice, international symposia and research projects. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"York Early Music Foundation was established in 1994 to provide long-term support for the world-acclaimed York Early Music Festival and to promote complementary events through the rest of the year. The establishment of a national centre for early music at St. Margaret's Church in Walmgate, York, will fulfil the Foundation's two central aims: to provide a permanent home for the annual Festival and to establish a national focus for the study of early music. " ...

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"The world of Baroque music can be dramatic as well as beautiful, and in 1989 Nancy Metzger founded Musica Dulce to aid all performers of Baroque keyboard music in their quest for expressivity. " Harpsichord technique and tips on playing the harpsichord. See website for more information. (ed.)

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French association promoting the “ Orpheon Project”, France-Orpheon seeks concert locations, expositions, financing and a location to establish the permanent residence of the Orpheon Foundation collection of historical string instruments in France.

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"Find out on this site about my demonstrations of early musical instruments...... get lots of background information about early musical instruments (including sound clips and photographs), hear sound clips from my album Early Music, hear clips from my musical literacy teaching programme Live Recorder and find out how I can provide background ambience for your special events. " ...

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“The revelation of a vanished musical continent

It is a source of pride for the K617 label honour to have been the promoter and driving force behind a crucial musicological discovery: the missing portion of the universal phenomenon of Baroque music, born beyond the oceans, which had been thought lost forever. Now imitated by others (but never equalled!), this policy was immediately backed by the AFAA (Association Française d’Action Artistique, a division of the French Foreign Ministry) and the Fondation Paribas (now Fondation BNP PARIBAS). It has been constantly accompanied by a multitude of diffusion and training initiatives and exchange and overseas aid programmes, run in partnership with "LE COUVENT" Centre International des Chemins du Baroque de Saint-Ulrich at Sarrebourg (Moselle département), which have been aimed successively at Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Chile.

This voyage of discovery into the heart of a lost continent of music has drastically changed our view of musical history, and it is of prime importance to discover each step of the journey through these recordings. Gabriel Garrido was the pioneer who began the adventure, in the company of the musicians of Elyma, the Coro de Niños de Cordoba and the Cor Vivaldi-El Petits Cantors de Catalunya. But this ‘saga’ has also revealed the talents of new arrivals: the splendid Camerata de Caracas, the Ensemble Louis Berger of Buenos Aires, the Ensemble Ars Longa of Havana, the ensembles Vox Brasiliensis and Turicum, or, finally, the Jovenes Musicos of Urubicha, whose mellow, naive expressiveness is proof of the miracle of ‘living Baroque’, preserved for more than two centuries by the natives in this Bolivian region on the edge of the Amazon forest.“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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The Society was founded in 1963 to increase and diffuse the knowledge of musical acoustics and instruments, and to promote its practical applications.

The CAS is best known for its pioneering work in the development of scientific insights and their application to the construction of new and conventional instruments of the violin family.

Its founder, Carleen Hutchins, along with other CAS leaders, developed methods for tuning the free plates of an instrument before its assembly. These methods are now used by violin makers around the world. ..“

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“Over the past twenty years, the “Centre de musique médiévale de Paris” provides instruction on the ancient musical practices. Amateur and professional co-exist without too strict a hierarchy: the beginners will find introductory workshops which allow an initiation with the music; enthusiasts can try a more complete immersion through different possibilities; musicologists confront their theoretical know-how that in turn complete their knowledge; performers or music teachers, finally, come to find vocational training almost never taught elsewhere, deepening their knowledge in terms of style, performance, and theoretical knowledge.”

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"The internationally-renowned faculty, headed by the members of the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble will again lead daily master classes and ensemble coachings. Faculty and student concerts promise to offer memorable listening and music-making experiences, lectures and informal open discussions stimulate the intellect, and the ever-popular baroque dance classes provide excellent physical exercise as well as a kinetic appreciation for the rhythms that underlie so much music of the baroque era ..."

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“The Foundation aims are of the preservation and knowledge of ancient musical instruments and the coordination of events related to ancient music. ”

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" Most of the information on this Web site was compiled during my research in Italy under a Fulbright Scholarship in 1991-1992. The information contained here is primary research; the result of my visits to over two dozen libraries in Italy, France, and Great Britain where I studied over 100 examples of printed guitar tablatures. My doctoral dissertation, "Giovanni Battista Granata and the Development of Printed Guitar Music in Seventeenth-Century Italy" (Duke University, 1995), resulted from this research. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Tim Crawford worked for 15 years as a freelance lutenist and theorbo player, during which time he worked with most of the leading conductors and ensembles active in baroque music, and played on a number of recordings made during the 1980s. In 1989 he joined the Music Department at King’s College, London, where his active interest in using computers to aid with musicological investigation became a professional one. He is the current editor of the Sämtliche Werke of the great German lutenist, Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750), an exact contemporary and friend of J.S. Bach.“

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"The Northern Recorder Course was founded in 1966 by Dennis Bamforth and Colin Martin and has grown to become one of the foremost recorder courses in the world. Repertoire from the Medieval period to the present day is studied in a variety of ensembles including Renaissance Band, Multi Choir, Recorder Orchestra and one to a part playing. There is a large choice of tutors and music in each playing session, allowing you to tailor the course to suit your individual interests. A particular feature of the NRC is that the full-time tutors teach for a maximum of two courses in a row, thereby ensuring that the course always feels fresh and vibrant with innovative classes. This is reflected in the interesting and unusual range of music available to be studied, complimented with classics from the recorder repertoire. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Aliénor promotes new music for the harpsichord through concerts, commissions and a competition.

The "Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Competition" was started in 1980 under the aegis of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society (SEHKS). Aliénor is now an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible. Aliénor runs the quadrennial harpsichord composition competition, publishes winning compositions, and commission new works for the harpsichord. There have been six competitions thus far, with over 400 new scores generated from composers around the world. The 2004 competition had 85 entries, with compositions coming from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, numerous European countries, and 15 states in America. "

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"In any profession, the move from student to practitioner is always difficult and if you are a talented young baroque musician, difficult might sometimes seem like impossible. The problem is one of experience: to work with a top orchestra you need experience, but you can’t get the experience you need without working with a top orchestra. EUBO bridges this ‘experience gap’.

Every year EUBO invites 100 talented young baroque musicians from across Europe to take part in one of the three-day audition courses. The 29 successful candidates, usually from at least 13 EU countries with an average age of 24 years, then spend six months together, training, touring and performing throughout Europe and further afield under the world’s leading baroque specialists.

At the end of each year, the students of EUBO move on into the professional world and the whole process from audition to graduation, begins again. EUBO has been so successful in its mission that there are now former EUBO students in every major professional baroque ensemble in the world, including, for example, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre, English Concert, Europa Galante, Academy of Ancient Music, La Petite Bande, The King's Consort, Concerto Copenhagen and Les Arts Florissants. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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