EarlyMusicNews.Org

Classical music magazine. Will often have early music articles. 

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“Nota Bene is a musicology journal developed by the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario. It seeks to publish essays of a high critical and rhetorical standard, written by undergraduate students from universities around the world. Essays in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies and theory are all encouraged. Submissions are reviewed by a panel of editors from across Canada.

Nota Bene serves to supplement the undergraduate musicology student experience in several ways:

• Nota Bene allows students interested in musicology to undergo the process of publishing a paper, including professor review and comments
• Nota Bene encourages a community of undergraduate musicology students and seeks to provide a venue for a nation-wide discourse in musicology
• Nota Bene provides information for young music students seeking more information about the discipline of musicology and its professional possibilities, offering a means for student communication through scholarly work and the academic publishing process.

Subscriptions

Nota Bene is freely accessible as an electronic publication through this website. Printed copies are sent to subscribing academic libraries, and to the individual authors whose work is published in each issue. To request a subscription for your institution, please contact the editors.”

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A resource site for the community of hautboy (oboe) players and builders.

Registered users of hautboy.org can upload scores and resources, post for sale or wanted listings, add comments, and also view a list of other registered users and communicate with them. 

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“After enjoying the traditional English and European dance music of Blowzabella for many years, I finally succumbed to the temptation of learning to play the hurdy-gurdy myself.  I own a Symphonie from Chris Allen in the UK and have an electro-acoustic hurdy-gurdy on order from Denis Siorat in France.  Previously, I rented a Gotschy Phoenix and am taking lessons from René Meeuws in Nijmegen.

This website simply collects some of the wonderful information and resources I have stumbled across.  If you’ve found an interesting site, or want to submit a review of an instrument, book, CD, concert, etc?  Please email me and I’ll be pleased to add your contribution to the site.  Similarly, please let me know if you find any broken links or other site issues.“

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“This site has both an immediate and a longer-term objective. The immediate objective is to make generally available a large number of modern transcriptions of Italian madrigals that I have produced over the last several years. The longer-term objective is to serve as a resource center and focal point for like-minded people who may be seeking, for example, additional information about the repertoire, assistance with texts and translations, or help in locating singers to form or supplement madrigal groups. In future, the site may expand to accommodate, e.g., contributions of transcriptions and texts/translations from other sources, or collaborative efforts to reconstruct the many madrigals that have come down to us with missing parts. …”

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“Ad Parnassum, a twice-yearly musicological journal, was conceived to become a prestigious Italian achievement, and a reference point in the international music scene.

Ad Parnassum deals exclusively with instrumental music of the 18th and 19th centuries. The journal, which appears each year in April and October, accepts contributions in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German.

Each issue includes articles of major scholarly interest (each article is provided with an English summary), a debate of musicological interest, reviews of books relevant to the journal’s field of interest and news.

Ad Parnassum is also complemented by monographs.

The publishing project has been undertaken by Ut Orpheus Edizioni of Bologna. The publishing house is one of the most active and dynamic in Europe in the field of Classical music publication. Ut Orpheus Edizioni, besides guaranteeing the high level of information technology demanded in the printing of the journal, arranges for its distribution on an international scale.

The founding of a periodical of cosmopolitan scope like Ad Parnassum has brought together numerous scholars of diverse nationalities. Roberto De Caro (Bologna), editor of the journal, is supported by an editorial committee consisting of musicologists with extensive experience in the specific field - a scholarly committee of great prestige. The journal also calls on the varied expertise of external collaborators.”

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“The George Frideric Handel Index Page at the Teri Noel Towe Home Pages“

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“*An electronic, international, annual conference and peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, EBSCO-distributed, digital journal for studies in Renaissance/early modern literature & culture. *APPOSITIONS is registered under a Creative Commons 3.0 License. *Manuscripts accepted for editorial review: October thru April. *APPOSITIONS is an open-access, independently managed conference and journal. *ISSN: 1946-1992.”

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“Welcome to the Internet site of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, an independent academic and artistic organization which investigates and promotes the myriad of interactions between text and music. Lyrica was founded by Dr. Louis Auld, Professor of French Literature at Central Connecticut State University in 1981. Since then, it has grown to include nearly 500 members in North America, Europe, Turkey and Japan. After serving as Editor of our peer-reviewed journal, Ars Lyrica, and as Secretary-Treasurer for seventeen years, Professor Auld retired from those posts, but remains active as an advisor to the Society's Executive Board. Lyrica welcomes literary, musicological and performance-practice research into word-music issues crossing all historical periods, and enveloping all musical and literary genres and cultural frameworks. Chronologically through the academic calendar, the Society is present at the annual conventions of the American Musicological Society, the Modern Language Association, the National Association of Teachers for Singing, and the National Opera Association (alternating biennially), the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Comparative Literature Association, where our seminar explores a special topic each year.

Our annual Lyrica Dialogues at Harvard are held each spring. ..“

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“The time is ripe for a revival of the early music revival. The pioneers of today’s flourishing early music movement – the people who put Baroque and earlier music back on the map – are fading into obscurity. A new blog, The Early Music Pioneers Archive (www.semibrevity.com), combines research with documents, video interviews, photographs and digitalized clips (from LPs, 78s and private recordings), to refocus attention on a host of musicians, scholars and instrument makers who deserve to be remembered. …”

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The online meeting place for people interested in recorders offers the following areas:

    * News from the world of the recorder
    * Web links with addresses of farmers recorder, publishers and recorder players can find
    * A picture album with the possibility e-cards (greeting cards to send)
    * Write comments to articles
    * Review articles (up to 5 stars)
    * Polls
    * Downloads of PDF catalogs & Software
    * Become a freelance editor! Write yourself Short News & Articles
    * A calendar of concerts and seminars on the recorder

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"Classissima speaks to all who are interested in classical music, what ever be their connection to it :

    * music lover or simply someone curious to discover this huge repertoire, amateur or professional musician, music teacher,...
    * what ever their favorite epoch : medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, 20th century, contemporary,...
    * music in what ever form or style : madrigal, chamber music, symphony, lied, opera,..."

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Site maintained by Robert Tifft (US) and Marco Papi (IT) for these harpsichordists: Luciano Sgrizzi, Ruggero Gerlin, Egida Giordani Sartori, Zuzana Růžičková

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“This web site presents photos of, descriptions of, and information about historical European and American flutes from the renaissance to the 20th century. In addition, we give related historical material about performance practices and report on the author's experiences playing these instruments.

The old flutes have great charm and character. And they have much to teach us about the flute music written at the times when they were made.

Except where otherwise noted, all photographs of flutes are of instruments in the author's collection. A number of these flutes are modern copies of early instruments, but the majority are antique flutes made between c.1750 and c.1930. There are many personal opinions expressed in these pages, but they are based, it may be hoped, on knowledge and experience as well as taste, he said modestly. All original photographs and essays are © Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 by Richard M. Wilson. These photos and essays may be copied for personal use, or use in moderation on web pages, etc., as long as I am clearly acknowledged as the source. All but very minimal use of the photos or essays on the web should be accompanied by a link to these pages.  ..“

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“In 1978, harpsichordist Elaine Comparone, National Endowment for the Arts grantee, Concert Artists Guild award winner, former Fulbright scholar and Affiliate Artist, founded Harpsichord Unlimited with Ronald S. Smith, librarian and music aficionado and Dorothy Wick, amateur harpsichordist and archivist. Their intent was to bring the harpsichord to a wide audience and to teach the public about the instrument, its history and its music.

The first project of Harpsichord Unlimited was a festival of chamber music at St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village. The series, known as the Winterfest Concerts, attracted large crowds and later extended its purview to St. Michael's Church on Manhattan's Upper West Side. These concerts ran for ten years, featuring Elaine Comparone, various guest artists and an in-house group, The Bach Family Strings. The programs included both little known and familiar early masterpieces along with contemporary works, all with harpsichord. …“

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“Welcome to my site, which is devoted to early music.” Changes, updates etc. are also announced on twitter by the site’s owner.

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Annual publication published by the Società Italiana di Musicologia (Italian Musicological Society) (SIdM).

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“Welcome! This is the open access to our new platform for the recorder. Built around the German recorder magazine Windkanal, a quarterly periodical dedicated to the exciting world of the recorder since 1997, it opens doors into the wonderful world of our instrument via services in German and English.

First of all, the printed magazine: All printed issues are available in our online archive services in German. Enjoy a wide variety of articles with pictures and musical examples, written by well-known ambassadors of the recorder. Read their portraits, comments, news, reviews on CDs, sheet music, reference books and special events. Profit from the information contained in the different media available on our advertising platform.
Notice our exclusive online material: In the enhanced content, you will find a special collection of articles in German only available on this website.

For English readers we have prepared a selection of special articles from the magazine either in their original version or in translated texts. Apart from interviews with the trend-setters of our instrument (such as recorder soloists, ensembles, instrument makers, musicologists and correspondents) you will find interesting sound files, rare images and literature on topics of repertoire, history as well as lots of other information to inspire you.

We hope our range of articles will be interesting and useful. The team at Windkanal wishes you a nice reading tour!”

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“Welcome to the world of flute history. This site contains information and resources for learning about the transverse flute and flute-playing in Western Europe and America over the past 800 years. It's designed for players of the modern instrument as well as earlier types, such as renaissance and baroque flutes.

You can find pages about people, instruments, periods, and music in the various sections in the navigation column at left. The site contains links to further resources on the internet, and in books and recordings in our shopping area. A good place to start is the ONE-MINUTE TOUR, followed by a trip through the TIMELINES. “

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Site specific to Mozart's life. Well organized. See website for more information. (ed.)

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“This site was built primarily from the contribution of lutenists, in the course of the past ten years. It now seeks to reach a wider audience in the early music world. Most of the material, consequently is lute-related, but this should not discourage non-lutenists from adding their contributions, quite to the contrary. Contributions are welcome for any material, - scores, societies information, musicians' biographies, news, CD reviews, etc. - that relate to the Early Music world broadly understood.

It is my hope that this framework will not only prove adequate for your contributions, but grow with them, and keep on evolving in the directions that you set, to serve you best. At this time, the site is still very much under development and this is an ideal time for you to help gear it in the right direction! “

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“The Bach-Archiv Leipzig Bach is a center of international research. It includes a research institute dedicated to much basic research and a research library with extensive resources and special collections on Bach. The public relations of the Bach Archive is a museum dedicated primarily to the life and work of the composer in Leipzig, as well as responsible for the implementation of the Bach Festival and the Bach Competition in Leipzig. ..“ (Google Translate)

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Site dedicated to the hurdy gurdy. 

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“We left our home in the woods of upstate NY on September 6th, 2010 for a 7,000-mile concert tour – a road trip that took us to Oregon and back. Oddly enough, although we had taken a stack of CDs to listen to for inspiration and source material, we ended up listening to exactly one and one-half of them.  This blog is a series of thoughts and musings inspired by the conversations during the trip, about our approach to our music and the sometimes very satisfying, sometimes thought-provoking dilemma of presenting it to modern audiences.  We’re taking the time to do this because of our firm belief that music of the 16th century is not only relevant but essential in today’s world.

Our first post, a summary of the trip, will be followed by some of our sometimes surprising discoveries of what moves an audience, how ‘Early Music’ has evolved as a relevant medium for 21st-century audiences and why looking backwards prepares us for the future.  We hope you will enjoy it as much as we do.

all the best,
Ron & Donna
Mignarda lute song duo“

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“The Face Of Bach is a website devoted to the portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach, and to the fair and accurate analysis of the various images that purport to be accurate depictions of the facial features of Johann Sebastian Bach.

As I continue to develop this site, I hope to offer thorough evaluations of the various Bach portraits and to provide information on the source materials that are the foundation for any discussion of the portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach. ..“

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