EarlyMusicNews.Org

“Over the past 40 years, Ashgate has grown to become one of the world’s leading publishing houses. We understand the value of academic research and scholarship, and we are proud of our responsiveness, flexibility and independence. Our business is driven not by text books or journals but by a program of cutting-edge research publications and specialist reference books. All books published within the Ashgate list are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. We publish over 700 titles a year in Humanities and Social Science subject areas, we have well-established reprint Reference series, and we are the publishers of the highly regarded Variorum series.“

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"This site and its affiliates make available the research, editions and transcriptions of a number of musicologists and performers around the world. We invite submissions for inclusion from anyone interested in the field, encourage discussion of issues concerning the genre as well as any related issues.

We specialise in publishing works which are difficult to find or have not been reproduced in modern editions. All of our editions are based upon the original manuscripts or period printings and editorial changes are clearly marked so that performers are able to make informed choices in preparing the works. Most of the music in the catalogue has never before been available in modern editions or recordings - we invite you to enter the world of this great vocal music.

Cantata Web editions are high quality but incredibly low-priced, presented with informative prefaces and translations where appropriate/available. All Cantata Web editions are printed on heavy (100gsm) paper, comb-bound for easier reading and protected by card and plastic covers. Continuo lines are not realised due to the importance of interpretation for each individual. All editions are provided with a single copy of the score and all instrumental parts. Parts are generally single-sheet except for collections where parts are similarly bound. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“This database includes all sources to the music of Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758) in the Roman Collection of the Music Library of Sweden, with links to scanned files. The scanning was done in 2005, with the support of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. Works from the collection may be freely searched, downloaded, and printed. They may be published without special permission on the condition that the source of the material (Statens musikbibliotek - The Music Library of Sweden) is clearly acknowledged. The Library expects two complimentary copies of any such publication. Copyright © of the database itself rests with the Library.“

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Kenneth Sparr’s site on the Guitar, the Lute and the Early Keyboard

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“The Düben Collection Database Catalogue is a digitised catalogue presenting meta-data and scanned facsimile of the Düben Collection, a large and important collection of musical manuscripts and prints from the 17th and early 18th centuries. The Catalogue is managed from the Department of Musicology at Uppsala University. ..“

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"English version of project of Musicantiga, the first portuguese site dedicated to Early Music in its whole. With biographies, musical scores, audio files, manuscripts, links and agenda of events all through Europe and America ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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" "What's this thing, Polish Early Music? Never heard of it!" We would be not surprised if you didn't. No offence meant: it is obscure. Here you can listen to some samples of Polish EM and learn a bit about our composers. And if you liked the site and the music, come again or drop us a note. We will be more than happy to help you within the limits of our knowledge and resources. " ...

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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 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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"Welcome to the CMME Project, a scholarly initiative to offer free online access to new, high-quality early music scores produced by today's leading experts. Based at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, the project represents a collaborative development effort of specialists in musicology, information science, and music retrieval. The major purpose of the enterprise is to produce and maintain an online corpus of electronic editions, in addition to software tools making them accessible to students, scholars, performers, and interested amateurs. Here, the brilliant polyphonic styles known to the modern world through the works of such masters as Dufay, Josquin, Machaut, Palestrina, and Tallis can come to life again in the central medium of the 21st century. " ...

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“For more than 30 years we have been known as specialists in early music. We send music editions and books on music all around the world. ..“

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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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“In Japan, there are many unavailable collections of musical sources (musical notes, books on music, etc.). Of primary consideration is the Nanki Music Library, founded by Marquis Yorisada Tokugawa (1892-1954) in Azabu-Iikura, Tokyo in 1918, which includes autographs of Beethoven, Liszt, and other composers. The Nanki Music Library was the first public musical library in Japan and actively collected many rare musical sources from throughout the world, such as the bibliotheca of William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), a British music educator. The Library was closed to the public in 1931 due to financial difficulty of the Tokugawa family; nevertheless, international attention has remained focused on the collection.

This project aims to design and create digital content materials from such sources with the expert assistance of digital archivists at the studio of the Research Institute for Digital Media and Content (DMC), Keio University. The digitized musical contents will be distributed internationally, and will enhance Japan’s contribution to music in the future. Emphasis in the digitization process is both on the applicability of the collections’ structure to other musical archives and its potential for use in the development of new educational materials. ..”

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“Ut Orpheus Edizioni is a specialized publishing house, founded in Bologna in 1994 with the purpose both to discover and promote the rich Italian and European musical heritage of the past centuries and to propose itself as a vehicle for the diffusion of the contemporary musical culture.

In the past few years Ut Orpheus has rapidly achieved a relevant place among the leading international publishing houses, gaining the praise of some of the most outstanding representatives of musical culture, and establishing non episodic relations with prestigious performers, musicologists and institutions, among whom Riccardo Muti, the Salzburg Festival, the Ravenna Festival, Christopher Hogwood, Kenneth Gilbert, Hopkinson Smith.

Ut Orpheus publishes the Opera Omnia of Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Francesco Geminiani, and the complete editions of Alessandro Scarlatti's keyboard works, Claudio Monteverdi's madrigals and sacred music, Johann Sebastian Bach's lute works. It has recently started an important and innovative project aimed at the critical edition in diplomatic transcription of the Ars Nova codices. Starting from 2007, the journal 'Ad Parnassum', now in its seventh year, was included in the 'Musicology initial list' of the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH). The catalogue gives particular relevance to the music for harp, guitar, recorder and keyboard instruments, as well as to the 20th century repertoire and the new authors, significantly including jazz and ethnic music.

Ut Orpheus Edizioni's catalogue presently houses over 1600 entries and it is distributed worlwide.”

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This is a list of drawings published by the 26 museums and collections which have participated in the project to microfilm technical drawings of musical instruments, organised by Hague Gemeentemuseum, Netherlands, with the co-operation of CIMCIM. This list, prepared by Dr Rob van Acht of the Hague Gemeentemuseum, includes the drawings now available on microfiche. The drawings are all also available in their original format directly from the participating museums, many of which also have further drawings on sale. ...

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"Musedita is a small publishing house set in Albese con Cassano (province Como, Italy). Its owner and artistic director is Alessandro Bares, a professional musician interested in baroque music since 1990, when he started studying baroque violin at the "Centre de Musique Ancienne" in Geneva and musicology at the "Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale" in Cremona (now"Facoltà di Musicologia" , University Pavia).

Many professional musicians and musicologists co-operate with Musedita, by proposing their own transcriptions, making us know about unknown music, giving us photocopies of ancient manuscripts and prints: Monica Pelliciari (baroque violin and viola), Cristiano Contadin (viola da gamba player), Vittoria Rosapane (violinista e musicologist), Marco Ghirotti (organ player), Giuseppe Fochesato (musicologist), Robert Ischer (cornett player), Alain Gervreau (baroque cello player), William Dongois (cornett player), Han-Jakob Bollinger (cornett player), Pasquale Spiniello (organ player), GianGiacomo Pinardi (lute player), Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba player). ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Antiquarian Booksellers, Autographs, Manuscripts, Music Books

“Lim Antiqua, established in 1989, selects, studies and offers autographs, manuscripts and music. The items are classified in three departments: autographs, music and books. The department Autographs contains autographs and documents from XVI to XX century by musicians, poets, writers, kings and emperors, politicians, artists and scientistsfrom Italy, Europe and other continents. The department Rare Music and Printed Music contains manuscript and printed music: sheet music and scores, chamber music, opera and full scores. First and rare editions in leather binding, illustrated editions and collections of famous musicians. The department Books contains books on music. Biographies of composers, conductors, musicians and singers; librettos in first and rare editions. Every selected autograph is offered with a description and image. New collections are published also on paper catalogues. We send them free to our customers (collectors, libraries and archives).”

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Lim Editrice S.r.l.

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“Clori is a project launched by the Italian Musicological Society (SIdM).

It concerns the study of the Italian chamber cantata since its beginnings in the seventeenth to the last documents in the nineteenth century. The aim of Clori is to enhance knowledge, and support scholarship in the field of the Italian chamber cantata.

Its efforts are primarily addressed to the crucial aspects of all cantata-related studies: the recognition and classification of all existing sources. Clori will fulfill this goal with the realization of the first web-based index and catalogue of all Italian cantata sources. The Clori index uses a specially designed software and will be constantly updated. The index is organized on a single cantata basis. Every record includes all internationally recognized standard bibliographical fields, plus other informations, if available. …”

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“The Clavis music publications were established with the aim of researching, making available and publishing lesser known and unpublished Renaissance and Baroque music and to provide new study material for professional musicians.

The idea of publishing music and in particular Baroque music , was inspired by a long term collaboration with the L’Ensemble Recitar Cantando from Pesaro, a group of young musicians and scholars specialised in 15^th – 18^th century vocal and instrumental music, chamber music, prose theatre and the musicological study of historical sources.

In 2004 L’Ensemble Recitar Cantando was awarded first prize ( the Arcangelo Corelli Award) in the “Dino Caravita” contest in the Ancient Chamber Music section.

As Clavis intends to expand and extend the music publications we would be very happy to receive and evaluate any proposals from scholars, musicians or music lovers who wish to submit works to our editorial team. “

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

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"Artemisia Editions was created by Candace Smith and Bruce Dickey to complement the work of the Italian ensemble Cappella Artemisia, a group of women dedicated to performing music from Italian convents of the 16th and 17th centuries. Extensive research has unearthed a startling amount of music either written by or dedicated to these cloistered nuns — music whose quality reflects the remarkably high standards of the original performances as described in the chronicles of numerous historians and travelers in Italy. " See 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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"This site contains an anthology of over 500 files of Early Music in all-digital quality. Beyond music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque period, you will find here a few miscellaneous music files.

We created these files with the music programm Harmony Assistant which is both a score editor and a digital synthesizer.

In order to play the music files, you'll need to download & install the freeware plug-in. The plug-in enables your computer to display and play the music files directly from your web browser. If it is a vocal score, your computer will sing the lyrics in multiple languages and voices.

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