Resources for Those Who Enjoy
Early European Music and Dance
Alexander Technique International
internet: http://www.ati-net.com/
American Nyckelharpa Association
internet: http://www.nyckelharpa.org
Information on the Swedish folk instrument nyckelharpa (which looks something like a hurdy-gurdy).
Art Armstrong's Recorder Page
internet: http://www.slonet.org/~aarmstro/recorder.htm
Arto's String Calculator
internet: http://www.cs.Helsinki.fi/~wikla/mus/Calcs/wwwscalc.html
Help selecting lute strings.
Arundo Donax
internet: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/org/doublreeds/general/cane.html
This is the name of a grass which has long been a source of reeds. The information here was written by a botanist.
Cantus
internet: http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus
A database for Gregorian chant.
Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments
internet: http://web.gsuc.cuny.edu/freereed/
Ceolas
internet: http://ceolas.org/ceolas.html
Information on all types of celtic music.
Contrabass Mania
internet: http://www.contrabass.com/
Information on very deep instruments, old and modern.
Crumhorn Home Page
internet: http://www.iinet.net.au/~nickl/crumhorn.html
Diabolus in Musica's "Guide to Early Instruments"
internet: http://www.diabolus-in-musica.freeserve.co.uk/guide/guide-m.htm
Dulcian Site
internet: http://www.hansmons.com/dulcians/index.html
e-mail: Hans@hansmons.com
Early Music and Historical Dance in Italy
internet: http://www.agora.stm.it/415/
Early Music FAQ
internet: http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/
Early Music Links
internet: http://www.onr.com/user/steveh/emlinks.htm
Early Music Network
mail: 490 Lindbergh Place #511, Atlanta, GA 30324 USA
internet: http://www.earlymusic.net/
Information for players of early music, webring, and free web site hosting for groups.
Early Music Network and News UK
mail: Forever Green; 3 Onslow House, Castle Road; Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8BY U.K.
voice and fax: +44 (0) 1892 511652
Early Music Women Composers
internet: http://150.252.8.92/www/iawm/pages/
Experimental Musical Instruments
internet: http://windworld.com/emi/
Fabricantes de flautas de pico del s. xx
internet: http://www.arrakis.es/~barsean/sample~2.htm
Information on 220 twentieth-century makers.
Fan Site for Francesco Durante, A
internet: http://homepages.infoseek.com/~durante12/english.htm
George Frideric Handel Home Page, The
internet: http://www.intr.net/bleissa/handel/home.html
Gregorian Chant Home Page, The
internet: http://www.music.princeton.edu/chant_html/index.html
e-mail: jeffery@phoenix.princeton.edu
Gunn, Douglas
internet: http://www.iol.ie/~dgunn/
Early music links.
Han Hartog's Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque Music Homepage
internet: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jchartog/
e-mail: jchartog@xs4all.nl
"On this page I present information on medieval, renaissance, and baroque music with special attention to the Netherlands
and to the recorder."
Harp Page, The
internet: http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/harp/
harp.net
internet: http://ww.harp.net/
Herasymenko, Ola
internet: http://home.att.net/~bandura.ca/
This gentleman plays the "bandura", an early Ukranian stringed instrument. Visit his site for information on its history, and on his CD recordings.
History of Musical Instruments, Links to
internet: http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2273/instr.htm
Instrument Encyclopedia
internet: http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/enclpdia.html
Instrument Jokes
internet: http://www.mit.edu/people/jcb/jokes/
Instrumental Music Teacher Resources
internet: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/cunningh/project
International Recorder Page of Bob Redman, The
mail: 3 Camphor Dr., Newnan, GA 30265
internet: http://recorder.net/
e-mail: b.redman@instruction.com
Internet Renaissance Band, The
internet: http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic
e-mail: lcclark@csuponoma.edu
MIDI files of early music.
Italian Foundation for Early Music [ FIMA]
internet: http://www.cilea.it/music/fima/fima.htm
J. L. Smith & Company
internet: http://windworld.com/jlsmith/
fax: 704-347-4789
voice: 800-659-6073
How-to books for repairing and playing.
J. S. Bach Home Page
internet: http://www.jsbach.org/
Kite-Powell, Jeffery
internet: http://music.fsu.edu/~sfm/kite-powell/crumhorn.htm
Here is the text of his article "Crumhorn" which was published in A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Jeffery T. Kite-Powell, ed. (New York: Schirmer, 1994), 63-68..
La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database
internet: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au:80/AudioVisual/Stinson/medmusic.htm
"The Scribe Database is a systematic collection of scores, colour images, texts and bibliographic information of medieval music which can be searched by text or melody and which will return musical information in the form of a modern score, text data, and, where available, a colour facsimile of an original manuscript."
Labyrinth Medieval Music Page
internet: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/music/music.html
Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi
internet: http://www.badw.de/musik.lml.htm
"A Dictionary of Medieval Latin Musical Terminology to the End of the 15th Century" (in German).
Little Music, A
internet: http://plantcell.lu.se/john/music.html
Sound files of early music played by mixed consorts, along with the printed words.
Lutes Information from Dartmouth
internet: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/lute.html
Medieval Information and Resources
internet: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/org/sca/src/medieval/
Information on food and drink.
Medieval Music and Arts Foundation
internet: http://www.medieval.org/
e-mail: mccomb@medieval.org
Medieval Music Before 1450
location: Malaspina University
internet: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/m2.htm
Medievalist, The
internet: http://www.medievalist.com/
Resources for medieval and renaissance living history, including: foods, architecture, literature, people, heraldry, armaments, etc.
Microtonal Recorder Home Page
internet: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/donaldbousted/
Midgley, Herbert M. II
internet: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/5722/rec.html
He has composed some simple recorder music.
Midwest Recorder and Early Music Page
internet: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/2326/
Monumenta Musciae Byzantinae
internet: http://www.igl.ku.dk/MMB/Welcome.html
This site includes an inventory of microfilms of medieval Byzantine chant manuscripts.
Music Resources Page
by: Sibelius Academy
internet: http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html
Musical Instruments
internet: http://capella.dur.ac.uk/doug/instruments.html
Musical Instruments Described
internet: http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/defs/inst.html
Mr. D. Glenn Arthur, Jr. has provided simple, complete descriptions of many early instruments.
North West Early Music Forum
internet: http://users.globalnet.co.ui/~steveh02/index.htm
Online Resource Book
internet: http://orb.rhodes.edu/
Online text materials for medieval studies.
"Pipe and Tabor, The"
internet: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChrisBrady/pipntab.htm
"An Address to a Society of Morris Dancers, Oxford, February 12, 1914 by Sir Francis Darwin (Son of Sir Charles Darwin)" This site has the text of this speech, which includes much information on the many types of pipes and drums played in France and Iberia.
Recorder Home Page, The
internet: http://www.iinet.net.au/~nickl/recorder.html
Recorder Iconography
internet: http://www.iinet.net.au/~nickl/art.html
Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander
Recorder Player's Page, The
internet: http://www.saers.com/recorder/index.phtml
Renaissance Consort
internet: http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/cons1
Sound files of various instruments.
Renaissance Cornetto
internet: http://home.msen.com/~mieczko/cornetto.htm
Renaissance Tapestry
internet: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/1407/
Information on the Renaissance era, including instruments, art, and biographies of people.
Shakespeare's Globe
internet: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/Links.html
Singingwood Music
internet: http://www.singingwood.com/index.html
This site has instructions on how to play the bodhran.
Technical Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public Collections of the World
internet: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/cimcim/iwd.html
Thore's Early Music Pages
internet: http://www2.shop.de/priv/hp/1618/
Many music links, especially for bagpipes of many nations, clothing, and reenactment.
Traditional Irish and Scottish Music
internet: http://www.standingstones.com/tminst.html
The author here gives interesting information on the history, use, and construction of many instruments used traditionally in Ireland and Scotland, going back several centuries.
Unusual Musical Instruments of the Middle Ages
internet: http://www.malaspina.com/harp/guitar/instmid.htm
W. J. Bethancourt, III provides interesting information on many instruments (tongue-in-cheek).
Virtual Renaissance
internet: http://tqd.advanced.org/3588/Renaissance/Town/Town.html
Take a tour through a virtual town of the Renaissance era.
Wayne's Lute Page
internet: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/lute.html
e-mail: wbc@cs.dartmouth.edu
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This page was last updatd on April 5, 2000.