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" Editions Dolcimelo specializes in publishing high quality performing editions and transcriptions of instrumental and vocal music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, as well as original contemporary works and arrangements for early and modern instruments. We also provide customized music typesetting services by special arrangement. Our catalog features sheet music (score and parts) for recorder and viol (viola da gamba) ensemble.

All Editions Dolcimelo publications include background and editorial notes and are printed on high-quality, acid free papers. Our publications are produced and edited by Charles Coldwell, who brings many years of experience as a professional performer and teacher on recorders and other early music instruments to the task. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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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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"Saraband Music is located in Kilcoy, QLD, Australia. Saraband Music began in 1994, selling sheet music and facsimiles, strings and CDs. Publishing began in 1996. In 2004, the business changed to mainly publishing, and the string business was sold to Ian Watchorn in Melbourne. From 2007, Saraband Music continued to publish early music under both the Saraband and Hammer & Tongs Reproductions imprints, and introduced a new range of music and interesting products for customers, including antiquarian maps and cards. A private collection of old books, including many first editions is also being sold.

Saraband Music is owned by Patrice Connelly, who has the degree of M.Mus (Hons) from the University of Sydney. She plays and teaches viola da gamba, and has edited music for viols published by Dovehouse Editions (Canada), PRB Productions (California) and the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain, and written articles and reviews for a number of journals. Her early musical studies were undertaken at the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, before progressing to the Music Department at the University of Sydney. She began playing piano at the age of 8, and violin at age 12. During her B.Mus, she also played viola before giving up both violin and viola for the viola da gamba. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"All music from the middle ages to Beethoven." Early music bookstore offering services in instrument sales, facsimile sales, instrument kits and maintenance. See website for more information. (ed.)

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"Bärenreiter is one of the largest publishers of classical music worldwide. Its extensive publication programme encompasses not only standard concert repertoire, but also educational music, contemporary music as well as music books.

From the beginning Bärenreiter has been working towards clear goals: to make a significant contribution to musical culture and to preserve the heritage of European music. So how did Bärenreiter set about to achieve these goals? It was Karl Vötterle's ingenious idea to create the concept of the New Complete Editions. He embarked upon an ambitious project to collect and publish the entire output of numerous composers, keeping to their original intentions.

Bärenreiter has been a pioneer in the publication of new scholarly Editions. Through the New Complete Editions Bärenreiter sets the musical standards for others to follow. In order to make these standards accessible to all practising musicians, without compromising the high quality musicological content, Bärenreiter publishes a comprehensive range of Practical Urtext Editions. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"Founded by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf (1695-1777) in Leipzig. The firm initially devoted itself exclusively to the printing of books. Later Breitkopf purchased the "Golden Bear House" near the Thomaskirche and the Nicolaikirche. Its heraldic animal still embellishes the publisher's mark to this day.

Gottfried Christoph Härtel takes over the publishing house (1795) (since then: " Breitkopf & Härtel"). Subsequently, close editorial collaboration with Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner and Brahms. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"Welcome to the American Institute of Musicology. Founded by Armen Carapetyan in 1946, AIM supports interest in Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque music. The publications of the Institute are used by scholars and performers alike and constitute a major core collection of early music and theoretical writings on music. Since its founding, the Institute has published more than 650 scholarly volumes including the yearbook Musica Disciplina.

The publications of the Institute are wide-ranging and comprise scholarly editions, books, and treatises. The scholarly editions include the complete works of major composers who lived up until the seventeenth century, composers such as Machaut, La Rue, Dufay, Willaert, Clemens, Rore, Compère, Crecquillon, Romero, and others. (See CMM for sacred and secular music and CEKM for keyboard music). Significant research findings resulting from the edition-making efforts are published in the series MSD. Published treatises include the works of influential writers from Guido of Arezzo to Jean Philippe Rameau. (See CSM and MISC). Significant collections of papers appear in MISC. Reference works are published in the series RMS. The Institute is continually accepting new book and edition proposals.

The Haenssler-Verlag, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, Germany, assumed responsibility for the publication program of the American Institute of Musicology in 1976, and in July 2002, the Institute's assets were acquired by Paul L. Ranzini. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"Thank you for visiting Dover Publications. Since our founding in 1941, we’ve built our reputation by offering remarkable products at amazing prices. Everyone in the Dover family wants you to be delighted with your purchase. When you shop at Dover, you may do so with complete confidence. We stand behind every product we sell with our unconditional guarantee. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"hough officially founded in 1973, the publishing firm of Arnaldo Forni began its operations back in the early sixties. Ever since then, owing to the quantity and quality of its output, it has held a leading position in the facsimile reprinting market.

The basis of the firm's publishing activities was the long and wide experience of the antique books market of its founder, Arnaldo Forni. The main incentive to transfer this experience from the commercial sector to that of industrial production was the increasing scarcity of antique books in the post-War years, as well as a growing demand, which could never hope to be satisfied by the available supply of original editions. Hence the decision to reproduce the original texts in limited editions, to be sold slowly over the years. Those were also years in which people were rediscovering the pleasure of reading, and particularly of reading books about one's "roots". From the very start, therefore, many of the Forni reprints were historical volumes on the towns, cities and regions of Italy." See website for more information. (ed.)

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"Through their facsimile and instrumental collections, Editions FUZEAU propose a vast choice of scores designed for music schools, conservatories, musicians (professional or amateur), universities, libraries…

Today, FUZEAU editions are known and delivered all over the world. Our web site offers access to all these titles, plus special offers and bargains: don’t miss out on it!

We also have a shop on our premises. All our scores may be consulted and ordered. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"King's Music specialises in the provision and publication of facsimile or Urtext performing editions. Most of our output has originated from the requirement of professional baroque orchestras and ensembles. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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"In twenty-eight years we have built up a collection of about 700 titles which cover practically every aspect of musical literature and of various repertoires stretching from the 15th to the 19th centuries and even the 20th century including:

* theoretical, historical and aesthetic works
* instrumental and singing tutors
* basic monographs
* journals and annuals
* instrumental tablatures (especially for lute, guitar, viol and organ)
* facsimiles of particularly important manuscripts (15th-20th centuries)
* facsimiles of musical scores for harpsichord, flute, piano-forte, viola, violin, voice and instrumental accompaniment and chamber music.


The works listed in the present catalogue have been chosen for their practical values as well as for their rarity. Most will be of interest not only to musicologists but also to musicians concerned with rediscovering authentic early performance practices. The resolution of many a controversy about the interpretation of early music is hindered by the inaccessibility of the relevant sources. Two or more works have occasionally been printed together in the same volume, when their subjects were related, with the aim of reducing their price. Forewords more or less developed (in English and in French) have been supplied, for the manuscripts series especially, to explain the choice of the work or the edition, to facilitate its use and to provide information on the author and his work.

Besides the Reprints, this catalogue includes many original works, most notably four important continuing series:

* Anthology of music criticism: Press dossier
* Archives of French music publishing
* Musical iconography
* Publications of the Centre de documentation Claude Debussy "

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" ... As the result of donations to the University of Melbourne given by both Louise Hanson-Dyer and J.B. Hanson, all the company's publications from 1979 have been produced with the financial assistance of the University of Melbourne. The involvement of the University has been substantial, notably since the signing in 1986 of a formal agreement of collaboration between the University and Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre. The company is now owned by the Lyrebird Trust, of which the University of Melbourne is a Trustee.

Since 1993, Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre has also received financial support for the publication of the Magnus Liber Organi series from the Monaco government and the SOGEDA (Société pour la Gestion des Droits d'Auteurs) of Monaco. The Fondation Francis et Mica Salabert, whose Musica Gallica series has as its aim the publication of the musical heritage of France, has helped substantially with the Magnus Liber Organi and other l'Oiseau-Lyre volumes of French music. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Italian publishing house. See website for more information. (ed.)

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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.)

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"This site presents many instruments I use to play medieval musics. This site is in French, but don't be afraid of that! The iconography is very important! You'll find in this site many informations about instruments in medieval music, but also about their representations in Iconography, their music , .... and also many midi files and many links . " Visit website for more information.

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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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"Recorder MusicMail supplies an extensive range of sheet music from around the world to recorder players in the UK and overseas. We are also agents for the fine Dolmetsch Nova recorder range. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Based in an 18th century farm complex in the Yorkshire Pennines, we supply the needs of early music enthusiasts world-wide. We hold large stocks of sheetmusic in facsimile and modern editions, books and CDs Anything we do not have in stock, will be obtained on demand. Look in the Catalogues page for publishers' catalogues."

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Catalogue of Handel works. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"TmiWeb is the online version of Thesaurus musicarum italicarum, an electronic corpus of Italian music treatises from the Renaissance and early Baroque. It contains the works of two of Italy’s most important authors on music theory, Pietro Aaron (c. 1480-c.1545) and Gioseffo Zarlino (1570-1590), as well as to a number of writings by their contemporaries. Nearly 30 works are online on TmiWeb in a full-text, searchable multimedial edition. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Chaplet, being a collection of Twelve English Songs, was published anonymously by John Walsh of Catherine Street, the Strand in 1738 though is now known to be the work of Maurice Greene. Greene held most of the important musical posts in England before his 40th birthday. He was appointed Organist of St Paul's Cathedral, Organist and Composer of the Chapel Royal, Doctor of Music at Cambridge University and Master of the King's Musick. Maurice Greene's life nowadays may be defined through the mighty task he embarked on in collecting all the written church music up to that time and through a colossal falling out with Handel, the man he spent the best part of his life in the shadow of. He is, nevertheless, still prominent in the Cathedrals of England today through anthems such as "Thou visitest the earth" and "Lord, let me know mine end". He was, however, just as involved in the secular music of London and so 'The Chaplet' contains the bawdy drinking song as well as the plaintive ballad. The only songs to have been recorded are 'Ye Purple Blooming Roses', 'Fair Sally' and 'Sweet Annie' and these may be heard on this site. The text to all of the songs is the work of Greene's sometime librettist, John Hoadly. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The site has been named after Ottaviano Petrucci di Fossombrone, 1466-1539, paper maker, printer and publisher. He was the first music publisher, Venice 1501.

This site contains free sheetmusic:

1. Polyphone vocal and instrumental pieces from the Renaissance transcribed for harpsichord, organ or harp (included the diatonic or Celtic harp); some pieces are originally meant or suitable for the lute; a number of works has been given in score for ensembles with separate voices and a number are presented with text and translation in English.

2. Gregorian plainchant in modern staff notation for recorder, other melody instrument or solo voice; translations have been added.

3. Bicinia from Obrecht to Mozart, for recorders or other melody instruments, some of them with text and translation in English. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Italian Music Treatises. 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.)

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