Images |
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A site with some interesting images of Roman
and Greek architecture |
http://www.anthroarcheart.org/roman.htm |
Not about pictures at all but a site decorated
with a selection of paintings from the last five centuries |
http://www.rsacompany.com |
A wonderful site for lovers of statues and
marble sculpture. And they are all for sale! |
http://www.sculpturegallery.com/ |
A private collection of scans, many
Michelangelo, which appear to be remnants of a former web site |
http://cecelia.physics.indiana.edu/life/art/ |
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France - 1000
images from the age of Charles V (1338-1380) |
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/aaccueil.htm |
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Libraries |
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Westminster public library, London, England.
The site includes a search facility. |
http://www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries/search |
The Manuscripts of the British Library |
http://molcat.bl.uk/msscat/INDEX.ASP |
The British Library |
http://www.bl.uk |
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Choirs |
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The Boston Camerata |
http://hometown.aol.com/Boscam/index.html |
The definitive index of British choir web
sites |
http://www.choirs.org.uk/ |
The Cardinall's Musick |
http://www.cardinallsmusick.com/ |
Magnificat |
http://www.magnificat.org.uk/ |
The Renaissance Singers |
http://www.renaissancesingers.co.uk/ |
Hofkapelle |
http://www.josquin.com/hofkapelle/hoka_home.htm |
The Clerks' Group |
http://www.clerks.dircon.co.uk |
Oxford Camerata |
http://www.oxford-camerata.co.uk/ |
The Sixteen |
http://www.the-sixteen.org.uk/ |
Schola Cantorum of Oxford |
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~schola |
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Music Publishers |
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Cantus Firmus music |
http://www.cantusfirmus.mcmail.com/Index.html |
Choral Public Domain library - free
downloadable PDF files of choral music. |
http://cpdl.snaptel.com/ |
The Beauchamp Press - Alan Lumsden and Michael
Procter |
http://php.indiana.edu/~elliottp/Beauchamp/ |
A_R Editions - publishers of collections of
music including a lot of early music. |
http://www.areditions.com |
The Beauchamp Press - any early music editions
- strong in Venice! |
http://www.beauchamp.demon.co.uk/press.htm |
Cantus Firmus Music - the web site
incorporates Cardinalls Musick edition as well. |
http://www.cantusfirmus.mcmail.com/Index.html |
Ancient Groove |
http://www.cappella.demon.co.uk/music/index.html |
Alamire music publishers |
http://207.5.92.166/websites/static/musica/alamire/eng/index.htm |
Stainer and Bell |
http://www.stainer.co.uk |
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Free Music Download Sites |
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Indiana University: Selected public domain opera and song literature scores, as well as some online sound recordings.
- IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library" http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page: Virtual library containing public domain music scores and/or sheet music as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music without charge. It also contains a forum where those in need of a score can post a request.
- Mozart Neue-Ausgabe: Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum:http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/start.php?l=2 Contains the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (Bärenreiter editions).
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek online: http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ A treasure trove of digitalized scores and other books. Although the site does have an English section, the German side is easier to navigate.
- Free Scores: http://www.free-scores.com/ Our project is to distribute for free the most important choice of free scores from public domain and from original composers with restricted licenses. A little clunky to navigate, but worth a look. Also, not everything is actually free, but a number of free things can be found.
- Choral Public Domain Library: http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Site contains free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
- Eastman School of Music:https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewInstitutionalCollection.action?collectionId=25 Eastman also has a blog discussing the process http://digitalscores.wordpress.com/
- UCLA/Sheet music consortium: a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/
- Harvard college library: a list with many resources for online scores and other music scholarship: http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/onmusic/
- Virtual Library of Musicology: http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/vifamusik_e/index.php?pcontent=startseite Contains an extensive digital library with the latest scholarly research and online resource
- Piano Files: http://www.pianofiles.com/ A napster style service where you can browse uploads from other users or request specific pieces from other members. Registration is free.
- Duke University http://library.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/collections.html Contains a list of free sheet music sites.
- Google Books: http://books.google.com/ Allows you to preview books and scores.
- Art Song Central: http://artsongcentral.com/ Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire. It also contains IPA transcriptions for every German, French, Italian and Latin song in the index.
- Repertoire Online: http://www.repertoireonline.com/ A smaller archive which contains 100 Free Sheet Music selections including: art songs, opera arias, & sacred music.
- Vocal Sheet Music: http://vocalsheetmusic.net/ Free downloads of vocal sheet music in PDF format. The collection includes art songs as well as selections from operas, oratorios, and other vocal works.
- RowyNet: http://www.rowy.net/list-vocal.html A medium sized archive of vocal song literature. Also contains a list of links to other public domain download sites.
- Werner Icking Music Archive: http://icking-music-archive.org/ The Werner Icking Music Archive contains a miscellany of subject-specific musical material including a subdirectory containing scores, sound files, typesetting source files, additional README-files and more. Site also contains a terrific list of other public domain resources: http://icking-music-archive.org/oth_mus_archives.php
- University of Michigan Libraries Music Library Scores Collection:http://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/scores/ This resource is comprised of scores held in the Music Library's general and special collections. Works featured here represent a variety of styles and genres, including songs, solo and chamber music, operas, and compositions for orchestra.
- The Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/ small collection of public scores with sound files.
- The Johns Hopkins University’s Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music:http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/ The collection consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is its throrough documentation of nineteenth-century America through popular music.
- The Mutopia Project: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download.
- Library of Congress’s African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 Collection:http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown/ This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920.
- Library of Congress’s Music for the Nation:http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/mussmhome.html This collection contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
- copy-us: http://www.copy-us.com/ copy-us is an internet publishing house for contemporary music; it contains a small amount of downloadable vocal music.
- Free Sheetmusic Library: http://www.bh2000.net/score/sacrbach/ Although this site is mainly devoted to larger orchestral works, it also contains pdf versions of Bach’s Church Cantatas.
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The Sheet Music Archive: Offers free (limited) and subscription (unlimited) downloads. |
http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/ |
Sibelius Music: Offers free and fee-based downloads. Search allows for filtering of available free scores. Free software plugin required to use. |
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/ |
Musica Viva: Contains free downloadable classical music, an encyclopedia of music, an instrument gallery, a lyrics database, a music database and a small collection of sound files. |
http://www.musicaviva.com/ |
Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923: With visual and audio images drawn from the extensive archival collections at The Library, the site features an authentic look American music from the beginning of the modern age, all brought to you in original documents (including some sheet music samples). |
http://digital.nypl.org/lpa/nypl/lpa_home4.html |
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Magazines |
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Goldberg |
http://www.goldberg-magazine.com |
Gramophone |
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/ |
Early Music |
http://www3.oup.co.uk/earlyj |
International Record Review |
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Record Labels |
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ASV |
http://www.asv.co.uk/ |
Signum Records |
http://www.signum.co.uk |
Gimell |
http://www.gimell.com/index2.html |
Hyperion |
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/ |
Metier Records |
http://freespace.virgin.net/metier.records/ |
List of early music record labels |
http://www.concerto.demon.co.uk |
Guild |
http://www.guildmusic.com/ |
Not a record label, but the annual industry
event in Cannes where everyone gets to meet everyone in the recording
industry. |
http://www.midem.com |
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Book Shops and Publishers |
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H&B - US based record shop |
http://www.hbdirect.com/ |
Amazon in the US and in the UK |
http://www.amazon.co.uk
http://www.amazon.com |
The best early music shop on the net. Peter
Berg stocks or can get everything and is available to give advice. |
http://www.aldhund.demon.co.u |
CD Now |
http://cdnow.com |
Order Music |
http://www.ordermusic.com |
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Publications |
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The British History Gateway - an E-publication
for students of history |
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/walk/acw43/historygateway/ |
Early Music - published by OUP |
http://www3.oup.co.uk/earlyj/ |
Journal of the Royal Musical Association |
http://www3.oup.co.uk/roymus |
Rhinegold - publishers of the British Music
Yearbook and Early Music Today |
http://www.rhinegold.co.uk |
Notitiae Cantus - Newsletter for Gregorian
chant |
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/earlym-l/Notitiae.Cantus/ |
Classical London - Email newsletter with
concert listing and reviews. |
http://www.classical-london.com/ |
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Musicians & Ensembles |
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charivari agréable's web site |
http://www.charivari.co.uk/ |
A comprehensive list of early music ensembles |
http://www.intr.net/bleissa/lists/choral.htm |
The York Waits |
http://www.waits.org.uk/ |
Tonus Peregrenus |
http://www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk |
Arts Florissants |
http://www.arts-florissants.com |
The Peter Maxwell Davies web site |
http://www.maxopus.com |
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Artist Agencies |
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Phillip Truckenbrod - Concert artists agency
in the US |
http://www.concertartists.com |
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Music Organisations |
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NFMS |
http://www.nfmslondon.free-online.co.uk/ |
Music Publishers Association of the USA |
http://host.mpa.org/ |
Houston Early Music Festival |
http://www.tayara.com/earlymusic |
Used to be the Article Number Association, now
the e-centre - they are the people who give out bar codes. |
http://www.e-centre.org.uk |
Broadcast Music Inc. The US collections agency |
http://www.bmi.com |
The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) |
http://www.rscm.com/ |
Early Music America |
http://www.earlymusic.org |
Early Music Vancouver |
http://www.earlymusic.bc.ca/home.htm |
The Early Music Network - an organisation
aiming to link all early music web sites around the globe. |
http://www.earlymusic.net |
The National Centre for Early Music based in
York, UK |
http://www.ncem.co.uk |
The UK Collecting Society for artists whose
performances have been broadcast |
http://www.pamra.org.uk |
A web site for establishing mailing
distribution lists |
http://www.music-lists.com |
NEEMF - North Eastern Early Music Forum |
http://www.neemf.org.uk |
Society for Reformation Studies |
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucylpay/index.htm |
The Renaissance Society - founded 1944 |
www.renaissancesociety.org |
The Musicians Mall - a collection is US based
new items and commercial links |
http://www.themusiciansmall.com |
The Incorporated Society of Musicians (UK) |
http://www.ism.org/ |
Society of Recorder Players |
http://www.srp.org.uk/ |
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Renaissance & Medieval Food |
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The Medieval Diet |
http://www.themedifastplan.com/feature-articles/the-medieval-diet-foods-and-recipes-from-the-middle-ages/ |
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Computer Software |
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Music Shops |
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1st in Harmonicas - Doc Belcher's shop specialising in Harmonicas |
www.1st-in-harmonicas.com |
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Instrument Makers |
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Venues and Promoters |
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Festivals |
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Early Music Organisations |
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Resources |
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Liturgy |
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Concert Listings |
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http://www.calendar.com |
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http://musi-cal.mojam.com/ |
(was concerts calendar) |
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~christh/tvemf.htm |
TVEMF concert listings |
http://www.concertfinder.co.uk/ |
Concert Finder |
http://www.uk-calling.co.uk/aboutusframe.html |
UK based publicity organisation specialising
in leaflet distribution in London |
Resources |
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http://www.prs.net |
Repository of midi files including a large
number of early music pieces |
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/ |
Indiana University's index of musical
resources on the net. |
http://www.medieval.org |
Medieval Music and Arts Foundations - A
Musical Resources and FAQ site run by Todd McComb |
http://www.edinboro.edu/cwis/music/Cordell/timeline.html |
A list of composers and their dates |
http://www.rbsp.org/EMLinks/ |
A list of Early Music links maintained by the
Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh |
http://copac.ac.uk/copac/ |
COPAC search facility - searches on-line
research libraries of 20 UK and Irish universities |
http://hymnuts.luthersem.edu/hcompan |
Hymnody resources |
http://kufacts.cc.ukans.edu/ftp/pub/history/Europe/Medieval/aids/latwords.html |
A list of 8000 Latin words and their
transations into English |
http://lycoskids.infoplease.com/ce5/CE010201.html |
A biography of Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor |
http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library/ |
The Christchurch Oxford Library |
http://members.easyspace.com/Brig/index.html |
Describes itself as a Medieval
"Fantasy" site - quite apt! |
http://listen.to/early.music |
rabros explanation of White Mensural Notation |
http://orb.rhodes.edu |
An academic Medieval resources site |
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/ |
The Classical Music Pages - a site giving
musical history, biographies, descriptions of musical forms etc. |
http://www.choralnet.org |
Choral Net - a US resources site for Choral
Music. |
http://www.christusrex.org/ |
A site providing information contained in
places of worship but with many other Catholic resources as well. |
http://www.classical.net |
Many CD reviews and composer biographies |
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hispanic/ |
The International Hispanic Music Study Group |
http://www.dnai.com/~jinetwk/other.html |
List of resources on the subject of tuning |
http://www.efn.org/~bch/AboutFonts.html |
Two early music fonts for Finale |
http://www.ely.anglican.org/cgi-bin/easter |
The diocese of Ely's calculator for finding
the date of Easter |
http://www.genealogy.org/~scottlee/calconvert.cgi |
A site for converting calendar dates -
Gregorian to Julian etc. |
http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html |
Calculation of the Ecclesiastical calendar -
enter a year and it tells you the dates of the principal feasts and
seasons |
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ |
A web site dedicated to language.
Dictionaries, Thesaurus, help with identifying the language of a word etc. |
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~davidcr/ |
List of books of worship before 1601. |
http://www.grovemusic.com |
Grove on line (requires a subscription) |
http://gfhandel.org/bleissa/ |
Lists of Early music instrumental ensembles,
vocal ensembles and record labels. |
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/public/bibles/ |
On line bibles including the Vulgate (beware
the "Vulgate" psalms - they are the wrong version) |
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/ |
Large listing of resources on composers and
also figures from other art forms. |
http://www.mortonmusic.com/ |
Morton Music - an Australian web site
specialising in choral music |
http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/ |
A list of music related doctoral
dissertationsS |
http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/start.html |
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum - a resource
containing Latin music theory from the medieval and renaissance periods. |
http://silvertone.princeton.edu/chant_html/ |
Plainchant resources |
http://www.newadvent.org |
New Advent - contains the Catholic
Encyclopedia |
http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Archive/Disserts/ |
List of University music dissertations |
http://www.audience-development.net |
Rhinegold's Keith Diggle web site |
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/music.html |
Contains a large number of early music links
of various kinds |
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bachlogc/ |
Bach plucked - the music of J. S. Bach for
lute and guitar |
http://www.btinternet.com/~edjacksph/homepage.htm |
Jacks. pipes and hammers - music of the 17th
and 18th centuries in facsimile |
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Bookshops and publishers |
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http://whipper.abebooks.com |
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http://www.thebookceller.com/ |
Secondhand bookshop in the US. "New,
used, out of print and rare". |
Secondhand bookshop in the US. "New,
used, out of print and rare". |
http://www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/3/store.html |
Overstock - sometimes have some good deals on more obsucure books and DVDs |
http://www.alibris.com/collectors/collectors-home.cfm |
Second hand books from the US (Alibris
incorporates Bibliocity) |
http://www.hawthornsmusic.co.uk/index.html |
Hawthorn's music shop (UK) |
http://lundbooks.co.uk/ |
Second hand books on theology. |
http://www.cdsheetmusic.com |
US based sheet music online |
http://www.ump.co.uk/ |
Universal Music Publications |
http://www.musicroom.com |
Music in print on line |
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Liturgy |
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http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/ |
Cantus - a search facility for plainchant
texts |
http://www.osb.org/liturgy/ |
A comprehensive site of links to liturgical
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Software |
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http://www.codamusic.com/ |
Coda Music - publishers of Finale music
typesetting programme |
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/MU/musicpress/engraving.html |
Music engraving conventions for computer
typesetting |
http://www.sibelius.com/ |
Sibelius - the UK's leading typesetting
software. Head to head with Finale! |
http://www.klemm-music.de/medieval/ |
Finale Plug in to allow typesetting of
plainchant |
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Festivals |
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http://www.dma.be/cultuur/festival/ |
Laus Polyphoniae - a Belgium festival of Early
Music |
http://www.festival-van-vlaanderen.be |
Flanders Festival |
http://207.5.92.166/websites/static/musica/musica/eng/index.htm |
Musica - the organisation staging the Alden
Biesen festival each summer in Belgium |
http://www.oudemuziek.nl/english/index.htm |
Oudemuziek - the organisation that stages the
Utrecht Festival of Early Music. |
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Links |
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http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Links/index.html |
Links page of Royal Holloway |
http://www.classical.net/music/links/emusic.html |
Interesting Early Music links |