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The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (JSCM) is published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music to provide a refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century. These include historical and archival studies, performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, dance, and theater. JSCM also publishes critical reviews and summary listings of recently published books, scores, and electronic media.

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"The Tijdschrift Oude Muziek (Early Music Magazine) is the quarterly publication of the Organisatie Oude Muziek. It offers its readers background information about the concerts, news from the world of early music, and cd reviews, concert listings, classifieds etc. ..." Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“A project dedicated to the reporting of early music through reviews, concerts reports, articles, essays. A space where the most dedicated fans meet to exchange opinions, ideas, insights, and to communicate the way they interpret, listen, live early music.”

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Site maintained by Philippe Allain-Dupré on the Renaissance and Baroque flutes.

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Website forums and portal.

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"WELCOME to the wonderful world of BAROQUE MUSIC

What is baroque music? Why it is so rewarding? A Baroque Music Sampler. Portraits of Baroque Composers. Rare Baroque Instruments " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“ .. . As this page has grown in both content and scope, it has been necessary for me to reevaluate my goals for this site. As such, it has been (and remains!) the goal of this site to present as accurately and objectively as possible information about the cittern and all things pertaining to it. It is my wish that this page will be a source of information for people who know nothing about the cittern as well as an on-line resource for both scholars and players alike. Since Internet download times have largely decreased due to advancing technology, I have tried to make use of that technology while still keeping wth my original goal of having as few "frills" as possible in order to present quick and ready access to the information on these pages. .. “ 

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" Classical Net features more than 3400 CD/SACD/DVD/Book reviews, as well as 6000 files and over 4000 links to other classical music web sites. " ...

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“Baroque Guitar - Vihuela - Renaissance Guitar - Early mandolin - Gittern etc ... For all GUT STRUNG historical guitars and related plucked, fretted instruments pre Torres .. .”

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Guitare and Lute Magazine .. . German language only.

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“Early Theatre is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles, reviews, and notes on medieval and early modern drama and theatre history, with a particular focus on records pertaining to actors, theatres, music, dance, and entertainment of all kinds. Our main emphasis is the performance history of art, entertainment, and festive occasions, primarily in England, but we also feature interpretive articles relating to the performances themselves. We also publish scholarship on subjects relating to early English drama as it impinges on or is influenced by other international practices. Overall, we aim to bring together the disciplines of history, art history, theatre history, music, politics, and economics so that these various scholarly concerns have a common forum in which to test theories about performance.

We publish full-length articles, shorter notes, and book reviews. Each year we also feature ‘Issues in Review’, a section of related, short essays that together highlight new research directions and shape the field for further work in such areas as repertory study, performance theory, or studies of neglected playwrights; our most recent ‘Issues in Review’ section, for example, focused on commedia dell’arte’s influence on seventeenth-century drama. Early Theatre also publishes occasional special volumes with sustained attention to particular topics (see, for example, volume 3 on the York Cycle in performance and volume 6 dedicated to performance, politics, and culture in southwest Britain). ..“

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“Explore the musical world of Jacob van Eyck (c1589/90-1657), one of the most remarkable figures in Dutch musical life during the Golden Age: a nobleman, blind from birth, widely known as a carillonneur, leading expert in the field of bell casting and tuning, and... admired as a brilliant recorder virtuoso. His demanding solo variations, preludes and fantasias from Der Fluyten Lust-hof are both loved and feared by recorder players today, all over the world. ..” Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“The Early Keyboard Instrument Network is now live. The intent of this community is to bring builders, designers, musicians, artisans and anyone else who has a focus on early keyboard instruments. It is our hope in creating this site it will serve as a whole to build better lines of communication, knowledge database and continuing interest in the field of early music.”

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"Welcome to Lyra Viol Music's Gateway
The lyra viol is a somewhat smaller cousin to the bass viola da gamba. These bowed instruments, unlike their namesake the modern viola, are held vertically between the legs like a cello and are bowed at waist level. Viols additionally differ from "modern" string instruments by coming equipped with six or seven strings and frets like a guitar.

The lyra viol is further distinguished from other gambas by the practice of utilizing a large variety of different tuning systems. This practice enables the performer to make a single lyra viol often sound like several instruments at once and achieve different sonorities and qualities of resonance. Twenty-two different tunings are found in one single seventeenth century British source alone, The Manchester Lyra Viol collection, and over twice that number have been found overall.

Lyra music is often extremely emotionally and intellectually engaging and presents yet another example of the depth and power of the Elizabethan culture that produced this unusual musical form. All the written music for the viol "played lyra-way" appears in tablature, a simplified system of notation often preferred by modern beginning guitar players. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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An early music blog in Spanish. Author unknown. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The Dulcian or Curtal is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon, developed in the first half of the 16th century. The Dulcian has the conical expanding bore from the Shawm, and the folded two parallel bores from the Sordune and Kortholt.

Like many other instruments in the renaissance, Dulcians were made in a family, soprano until contrabass. The smaller instruments up to the bass, are in general made from one piece of wood. Larger instruments are in many cased made from two or three pieces of wood.

In the 17th century, the small Dulcians are getting less and less important. At the same time the baroque Bassoon is developed, while the bass Dulcian is still in use. A special situation is found in Spain1, where still in the 19th century various sizes Dulcians are in use. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"The English Harpsichord Magazine was published for a number of years in the seventies and eighties, and contained a number of articles, which although written some thirty years ago, remain of interest today.

Our thanks go to Edgar Hunt, the Editor and Publisher of the Magazine for his agreement to reproduce the articles here. Also to Robert Blackstone for the original suggestion of creating the archive here and the loan of his collection of EHM. Without their help this project would not have been possible.

Please note that these articles are the originals, unless an update is indicated, and may not accurately represent current knowledge or views of the author. ... " (British Harpsichord Society) Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Jerry Fuller began studying the double bass at age 16 and was invited to join the Lyric Opera of Chicago orchestra three years later. Within two years he was promoted to first desk of the double bass section in addition to performing with the Santa Fe Opera. Mr Fuller has also served as solo double bass of The Musikkollegium Winterthur Switzerland. While in Europe, Mr. Fuller became interested in historically-informed performance practice and has achieved international recognition for his work with period instruments. A Chicago Artists Abroad grant recipient, Mr. Fuller’s performances in London, Rome, Geneva and Edinburgh have been broadcast worldwide. In addition, Mr. Fuller has performed at the Ravinia and the Aspen Music Festivals and both the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals. ..“

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“Curious remarks of sung French from the Medieval to Baroque periods .. . with some considerations on the sung latin of the French. ..“

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"Earlymusicguide.com aims to become the one stop place for anyone interested in early music. Our intention is to promote early music, attract new audience, inform people on anything happens in the world about it and finally the make easier cooperation between professionals.

Earlymusicguide.com was developed and belongs to "classicalmusic.gr - classical music in Greece", a website that focuses on classical music in Greece. Classicalmusic.gr organizes the unique early music festival in Greece: Christmas Early Music Festival. " ...

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"The Medieval Music & Arts Foundation is an incorporated non-profit public charity. The present activities of the foundation center on online publishing. We have readers and supporters around the world. …

The activities of the foundation grew from those of Todd M. McComb to include contributions from other valued colleagues. Dr. McComb continues to direct the foundation and edit the web site.

The Medieval Music & Arts Foundation welcomes a wide variety of viewpoints. We make every effort to check facts for accuracy, as well as to correct any errors brought to our attention.

Some content areas were developed online as early as 1991. Our formal incorporation to serve as an umbrella for these resources was in 1999. Thank you for your interest."

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“Lauched in March 2003, Muse Baroque, the Baroque Music magazine, is dedicated to the promotion and appreciation of early and baroque music in all its splendour and richness. All genres of music are represented: religious music; operatic and lyric; chamber music etc. ..“

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“These pages, dedicated to baroque music and discography, were realized by Hervé Lauret with the help of Jacques Fischer, organist and harpsichordist for text identified with one asterisk (*) and by Jean-jacques Walther pour texts identified with two asterisks (**). ..“

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"Performance Practice Review (PPR) is a blind, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of Western musical performance practices. It is not confined to any historical period. PPR originally was published bi-annually from 1988 to 1997, with Roland Jackson serving as Editor. All issues existing in print appear on this site.

Contributions to PPR accepted from 2006 onward are published exclusively online, on a continuous basis. Robert Zappulla is the current Editor. Claremont Graduate University normally is the exclusive copyright holder for new submissions. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Brad Leissa created this web site in 1995, in an attempt to make information on Handel (the man, the composer, and his music) more accessible to the ever-growing internet community. In May 2001 the English Handel musicologist David Vickers joined this effort as co-producer of GFHandel.org.

In our opinion, Handel deserves unequivocal recognition as one of the greatest composers, comfortably equal in artistic stature to other 18th century figures such as J.S. Bach, F.J. Haydn, W.A. Mozart, etc. We hope this web site serves as a valuable resource for both Handelian scholars and enthusiasts.

We aim to maintain accuracy in our presentation of musicological information about Handel, and give references to musicological publications whenever possible. Nevertheless, if you spot any errors or wish to submit constructive comments, please contact us. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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