SCA Music Homepage: What's New?

• Tree Editions (mostly Renaissance Lute, guitar, and cittern etc. music)

• Bowed Strings Iconography Project

• Medieval music manuscripts from spielleut.de

• Medieval Music manuscripts online - a curated list

• Translations of historical performance texts

• Troubadour Melodies Database

• Aeolian Consort free sheet music (some Renaissance)

• Performing medieval music: Instrumentation, Turning monophony into polyphony, The medieval style

• The Portuguese Early Music Database

• (hammered) dulcimer

• 15th century French chansons

ancient lyre,

• 300 printed anthologies from the 16th century at the RISM UK site

• Ornamentation: a few pages from Conforto's Breve et facile maniera d'essercitarsi ad ogni scolaro

• Choral Public Domain Library (some Medieval/Renaissance material)
• Directory of sheet music from Early Music Chicago

• Early Music Online (16th century facsimiles)

• Computerized Mensural Music Editing Project

• The Cantigas de Santa Maria for singers

• Wind bands in towns, courts, and churches from the Middle Ages to the Baroque

• The Italian Madrigal (1580-1605)

• pre-1050 Northern European instruments

• Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society

• Copenhagen, and Wolfenbuettel

• Early music recordings on lute and early guitar
• The Copenhagen and Wolfenbuettel chansoniers (late 15th century)

• The Laborde and Mellon chansoniers (both circa 1470)

• English Lute Songs
• Free Choral Music (some early music)

• Ancient English Christmas Carols (1400-1700)

• Trails Of The Troubadours by Raimon De Loi
• Tonality And Atonality In Sixteenth Century Music by Edward E.Lowinsky
• The Stringed Instruments Of The Middle Ages by Jeffrey Pulver
• The Stringed Instruments Of The Middle Ages by Jeffrey Pulver
• Some British Collectors Of Music C 1600 1960 by A.Hyatt King
• Sixteenth Century Polyphony A Basic For The Study Of Counterpoint by Arthur Tillman Merritt
• Seventeenth Century Songs And Lyrics by John P. Cutts
• The Rhythm Of Twelfth Century Polyphony by William G. Waite
• MUSIC IN MEDIEVAL BRITAIN by FRANK LI.HARRISON
• Music Literature Outlines Series I Music In The Middle Ages And Renaissance by Harold Gleason
• Mediaeval Music by Robert Charles Hope
• Keyboard Music From The Middle Ages by Gerald Stares Bedbrook
• The Notation Of Polyphonic Music, 900-1600 (Willi Apel)

• Tratado de Glosas (Diego Ortiz, c1519-c1570)

• Lute info (also here)

• Fac-similé.org (medieval through Baroque editions)

• The Troubadours (H.J. Chaytor, 1912)

• Download a djvu client to read the following:
  • Contrapuntal Technique In The Sixteenth Century
  • Popular Music Of The Olden Time
  • Five Centuries Of Keyboard Music

• Llibre Vermell de Montserratt

• The Known World Choir Mailing List

• Bringing Live Music back into the Living Room (about 1/2 pre-1600)

• Varietie of Lute-Lessons (London: Thomas Adams, 1610) by Robert Dowland (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 Voices (London: Thomas Fiste, 1598) by John Wilbye (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• A Musicall Dreame, or the Fourth Booke of Ayres (London: Simon Waterson, 1609) by Robert Jones (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• The Hyms and Carols Website, including: Ambrose of Milan (ca. 340-397) * Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (348 - ca. 413) * Henry Suso (1295-1366) * Piae Cantiones (Finnish medieval collection) * St. Bede the Venerable (ca. 632-735) * Martin Luther (1483-1546) * Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676) * Philipp Nicolai (1556-1608) * Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585)

• http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/HTML/History_of_Hymns_and_Carols.htm The Hymns and Carols of Christmas, he "temporarily" removed it :-(

• rebec,
• citole

• Search CDs to find composers/tunes, at medieval.org and freedb.org

• Early music MP3s on Classical Guitar

• Mathematical Musick: The Contrapuntal Formula of Thomas Campion

• A short (English) summary of a (French) dissertation on musica ficta

• Early English Musick, 1385-1714 (a chronology of composers and works)

• Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) by Christopher A. Reynolds

• Texts on Music in English (Medieval and Early Modern)

• A discussion of the eras of Early Music

bagpipe,

• http://www.earlycittern.com/ Cittern, now dead

• The Dowland Lute MS (with transcription)

• Stefan's Florilegium collection of Performance Arts messages
• The Medieval Lyric (inexpensive resource with accompanying audio CDs)
• http://www.tidepool.com/~danad/Music.html Early music for Recorder, Viol, and Classical Guitar (now dead)
• Article: Music for the Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (1470-1799)

• added Thomas Ravenscroft Songbook

• Arenai (French Renaissance music)
• The Copenhagen Chasonnier (15th century, commentary in Swedish)

• A collection of music/lyrics from the Middle Ages

• An introduction to recorders in the Middle Ages

• Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (with commentary in french)

• Eric's Music page including...
  • Phaedria's Dance Music
  • Really cheap CDs of dance music

• Dur's middle eastern newsletter

• A Singer's Guide to Medieval/Renaissance Music
• Robert ap Huw's manuscript

• Robert ap Huw Symposium 1995 (proceedings)

• added A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments (introductory material)

• added The Keyboard Music of William Byrd (1543-1623)
• added More Early Music MIDI files

• added The Cantigas de Santa Maria

• added http://www.sp.utexas.edu/sbr/cantigas.html Las Cantigas de Santa Maria [now dead] (in spanish)
• added Transcribing and Reading White Mensural Notation (mid 16th century)

• added PERFORM -- Medieval Performing arts (also highly academic)

• The Diabolus Guide to Early Instruments

• added Phaedria's Dance Music (freely copyable)

• added Sixteenth Century Ballads

• Music for the dances in Arbeau's Orchesography works again.

• added How to build a portative organ (advertisement)

• added Thomas Deloney's Works (d. 1600)

• added an instrumental link for lyre

• Added instrument link for http://www.cwu.edu/~grovesj/trbn/sackbut.html sackbut [now dead]

• added Medieval Melodies for Filking

• added Records of Early English Drama (REED)

• added The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1609)

• added http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/edpsy387-sp95/stacey-krejci/culture/Intro/IntroMusic.html Introduction to Renaissance Music (from an undergraduate course) [ now dead ] version of Playford

• added Early Music Labels (a list of record companies)

• added Early Music Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) (good discography)

• Early Music MIDI files

• added Instrument-specific resources: Lute, hurdy-gurdy, pipe and tabor, viola da gamba, recorder, crumhorn, harp.

• added Music for the dances in Arbeau's Orchesography (article by Joseph Cassazza)

• The Medieval Music Database

• added http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~mongoose/lute.html Lute for Guitar players, now dead

• added Medieval and Renaissance music mailing list (highly academic)

• added list of arrangers.

• added Ricercares by Vincenzo Galilei (has good intro material to early music theory)
• added http://www.prs.net/midi.html Classical MIDI archives (contains some early music), now dead

• Bardic mailing list revived
• "Bardic" info moved to its own page

• Added pointer to the http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nip2/ Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, now dead.

• On Bards, and Bardic Circles (Ioseph of Locksley)
• On Filks And Music In The SCA

• Gregorian Chant
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (music theory texts in Latin)

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