| Images |
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| A site with some interesting images of Roman
and Greek architecture |
http://www.anthroarcheart.org/roman.htm |
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Not about pictures at all but a site decorated
with a selection of paintings from the last five centuries |
http://www.rsacompany.com |
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A wonderful site for lovers of statues and
marble sculpture. And they are all for sale! |
http://www.sculpturegallery.com/ |
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A private collection of scans, many
Michelangelo, which appear to be remnants of a former web site |
http://cecelia.physics.indiana.edu/life/art/ |
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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 |
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The Manuscripts of the British Library |
http://molcat.bl.uk/msscat/INDEX.ASP |
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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 |
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The definitive index of British choir web
sites |
http://www.choirs.org.uk/ |
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The Cardinall's Musick |
http://www.cardinallsmusick.com/ |
| Magnificat |
http://www.magnificat.org.uk/ |
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The Renaissance Singers |
http://www.renaissancesingers.co.uk/ |
| Hofkapelle |
http://www.josquin.com/hofkapelle/hoka_home.htm |
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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/ |
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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 |
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Choral Public Domain library - free
downloadable PDF files of choral music. |
http://cpdl.snaptel.com/ |
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The Beauchamp Press - Alan Lumsden and Michael
Procter |
http://php.indiana.edu/~elliottp/Beauchamp/ |
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A_R Editions - publishers of collections of
music including a lot of early music. |
http://www.areditions.com |
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The Beauchamp Press - any early music editions
- strong in Venice! |
http://www.beauchamp.demon.co.uk/press.htm |
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Cantus Firmus Music - the web site
incorporates Cardinalls Musick edition as well. |
http://www.cantusfirmus.mcmail.com/Index.html |
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Ancient Groove |
http://www.cappella.demon.co.uk/music/index.html |
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Alamire music publishers |
http://207.5.92.166/websites/static/musica/alamire/eng/index.htm |
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Stainer and Bell |
http://www.stainer.co.uk |
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Magazines |
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Goldberg |
http://www.goldberg-magazine.com |
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Gramophone |
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/ |
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Early Music |
http://www3.oup.co.uk/earlyj |
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International Record Review |
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Record Labels |
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ASV |
http://www.asv.co.uk/ |
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Signum Records |
http://www.signum.co.uk |
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Gimell |
http://www.gimell.com/index2.html |
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Hyperion |
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/ |
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Metier Records |
http://freespace.virgin.net/metier.records/ |
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List of early music record labels |
http://www.concerto.demon.co.uk |
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Guild |
http://www.guildmusic.com/ |
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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/ |
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Amazon in the US and in the UK |
http://www.amazon.co.uk
http://www.amazon.com |
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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 |
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CD Now |
http://cdnow.com |
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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/ |
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Early Music - published by OUP |
http://www3.oup.co.uk/earlyj/ |
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Journal of the Royal Musical Association |
http://www3.oup.co.uk/roymus |
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Rhinegold - publishers of the British Music
Yearbook and Early Music Today |
http://www.rhinegold.co.uk |
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Notitiae Cantus - Newsletter for Gregorian
chant |
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/earlym-l/Notitiae.Cantus/ |
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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/ |
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A comprehensive list of early music ensembles |
http://www.intr.net/bleissa/lists/choral.htm |
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The York Waits |
http://www.waits.org.uk/ |
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Tonus Peregrenus |
http://www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk |
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Arts Florissants |
http://www.arts-florissants.com |
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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/ |
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Music Publishers Association of the USA |
http://host.mpa.org/ |
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Houston Early Music Festival |
http://www.tayara.com/earlymusic |
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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 |
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Broadcast Music Inc. The US collections agency |
http://www.bmi.com |
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The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) |
http://www.rscm.com/ |
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Early Music America |
http://www.earlymusic.org |
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Early Music Vancouver |
http://www.earlymusic.bc.ca/home.htm |
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The Early Music Network - an organisation
aiming to link all early music web sites around the globe. |
http://www.earlymusic.net |
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The National Centre for Early Music based in
York, UK |
http://www.ncem.co.uk |
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The UK Collecting Society for artists whose
performances have been broadcast |
http://www.pamra.org.uk |
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A web site for establishing mailing
distribution lists |
http://www.music-lists.com |
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NEEMF - North Eastern Early Music Forum |
http://www.neemf.org.uk |
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Society for Reformation Studies |
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucylpay/index.htm |
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The Renaissance Society - founded 1944 |
www.renaissancesociety.org |
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The Musicians Mall - a collection is US based
new items and commercial links |
http://www.themusiciansmall.com |
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The Incorporated Society of Musicians (UK) |
http://www.ism.org/ |
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Society of Recorder Players |
http://www.srp.org.uk/ |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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
resources |
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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 |
