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An NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers

This five-week institute will be directed by Claire Sponsler, Professor of English at the University of Iowa, and hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library.  This institute offers a comparative study of ritual and ceremony across related cultures from 1300 to 1700.  It builds on anthropological theories of the ubiquitous role of ritual and ceremony and the impact of that work in performance studies.  Testing assumptions about influence and exchange among national traditions and local contexts, it seeks a new understanding of the processes and effects of cultural hybridity and assimilation.

On Saturday 20th March, in Ramsgate, Kent (England), there will be a day of hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe workshops, with a concert in the evening. Workshops during the day on gurdy maintenance and playing, bagpipe playing and Middle Eastern percussion will be run by Claire Dugue, Sean Jones, Steve Tyler, Tim Garside and Katy Marchant.

Come join us to hear, play, and enjoy the recorder!
When: Saturday afternoon, March 13, 2010, 1:30 - 4:30 pm
Where: Orangewood Presbyterian Church, Page Hall, 7321 N. 10th St., Phoenix

Please join the Desert Pipes for a celebration of our first half-century!

Join Concept Tours and world-renowned Bach organ scholars Quentin and Mary Murrell Faulkner on a tour of Bach's Organ World in Germany during summer 2010. You'll also see the magnificent attractions of the "new" East Germany.

Join in the fun at the 2010 edition of Lute Society of America’s Summer Seminar! This year, the seminar will explore the lute in Italy from the 15th through 18th centuries. (Okay, there will be lots of other lute music too!) The event will feature a distinguished faculty of lute performers, musicological specialists, and vocal coaches.

Date is: 12 to 14 March 2010 at academy BURG FÜRSTENECK in the centre of Germany, starting at 6:30 PM and ending at 1:00 PM.

We would like to call you attention to our workshops of the “10th Stage for Early Music and Historical Dance at Castle BURG FÜRSTENECK” with teacher of the international well known “Ensemble Oni Wytars” and their friends. There is a workshop for French baroque music for hurdy gurdy included, directed by Riccardo Delfino.

Recently published, a list of summer schools for Baroque and Renaissance Flautists for 2010. The list is maintained by Alan Cowderoy (Un Doulx Regard Ensemble).

Francescho Bianchini: Tabulature de Lutz en diverses formes... Facimile of the second part of a publication, printed by Jacques Modern, Lyon, 1549

Fancies, chansons and dances by different authors, intabulated for Ren. Lute in Italian tablature. 31 folii / Italian tablature / Renaissance tuning . ..

Rod Cameron’s reputation as a wonderful flute maker is exemplified by his flute photo gallery. 

“Author: Lumley, Benjamin

From 1842 to 1853 and again from 1856 to 1858, Benjamin Lumley (1811-1875) was manager of Her Majesty's Theatre in London, the great nineteenth-century English home of romantic ballet and Italian opera.

Take a Grand Tour through Europe's finest capital cities as Baroque Band revel in the musical treats of the 18th century traveller. Destinations include Paris, Venice, Rome and Amsterdam, before returning to London for a grand finale.

“AUSTIN, Texas — A major collection of Italian opera libretti is now accessible through an online database at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.

The collection of 3,421 items was donated in 1969 by New York rare book dealer Hans P. Kraus. The collection consists primarily of texts of Italian operas but also includes Italian cantatas, serenatas, oratorios, dialogues and Passions.

12 chanson intavolations for 2 equally tuned Renaissance lutes from: Vingt et cinq chansons musicales..., 1530

 Music for the English Court Recorder Consort played by Mezzaluna (Renaissance recorders). 

Although the recorder is probably known primarily as a baroque instrument amongst the general public, it is rather the 16^th century, which should actually be considered the golden age of its history. At that time, single recorders were certainly used in mixed ensembles of instruments, but from numerous sources there is clear evidence, that it was especially the homogeneous recorder consort, or "a whoall noyse of recorders", as some English sources would call it, which enjoyed an unprecedented popularity with both amateurs and professionals. The English Court however, constitutes a special case, since it is the only known establishment, where over a period of no less than ninety years, a group of specialized instrumentalists was officially enrolled as recorder players and members of a standing recorder consort: the Royal Recorders.

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
“The Children of Orpheus: How Composers Receive Ancient Texts”

Deadline: 26 JAN 2010!

The American Philological Association's Outreach Panel for the 2011 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, January 6-9, 2011, invites papers that discuss texts set to music from 1400 to the present that are based on, or influenced by, ancient Greek or Latin literature, and analyze how their creators engaged  with these texts through direct setting, adaptation, translation, or alteration. Subjects might include, but are not limited to,song-cycles, operas, oratorios, cantatas, hymns, film scores, or popular music.

Because of its technological developments, the 19th century can be called revolutionary for brass players, with innovations in instrument building taking on never-before-seen proportions.

During this new laboratory, the instructors will acquaint (pre) professional musicians with particular playing techniques, instruments and the 19th-century repertoire including some lesser-known works. You’ll play the instruments coached by the following members of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées: Alain De Rudder, Luc Bergé, Wim Becu and Marc Girardot. A19th-century instrument can be borrowed for the duration of the lab.

Works by Jean François Victor Bellon, Antoine Simon, Félicien-César David, … will be performed.

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) is best known for his treatise Syntagma Musicum. Yet he was also an especially prolific composer. Praetorius’s repertoire deserves wider recognition, not only because of its polychoral writing and colourful instrumentation, but also for its expressive content.

The annual winds course (Gabrieli workshop) will this year be directed by Wim Becu, Adam Woolf and Judith Pacquier. They explore the so-called ‘polychoral style’ in 17-century Portugal. Works by Frei Manuel Cardoso, Antonio Carreira and Joao Lourenço Rebelo will be performed.

Cellists William Skeen, Michael Lawson, and John Lutterman will perform the Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach on Saturday, January 23, 2010, at 8 p.m. (Suites 1-3) and Sunday, January 24, 2010, at 3 p.m., at historic St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Sacramento. Both concerts will be . ..

“Some lucky composers attract scholars of such assiduity of purpose that their names become linked from then on: one thinks of Henry-Louis de La Grange's work on Mahler or David Cairns' on Berlioz. That Joseph Haydn is now universally accepted as one of the great composers is down largely to the spadework of H. C. Robbins Landon – the music had long since slipped from view when he first began the pioneering research which would restore the reputation Haydn had enjoyed in his own lifetime.

(NL) Lute lessons on YouTube -- David van Ooijen, lutenist.

David Van Ooijen advises those interested that more lute lessons have been added to his YouTube website.

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We recommend that you purchase some inventory before our closing, but we must receive your order no later than late January.

“I am happy to annouce that our next concert, featuring maestro Roberto Gini
(italy) on the viola da gamba, myself on the recorder, Nitai Zori on the
baroque violin and Miri Singer on the harpsichord, shall be broadcasted live
on the internet on Monday, January 11th, at  17:00 - Israeli time...

Integrated Repository of Musical Resources at the Research Institute for Digital Media and Content (DMC), Keio University

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.