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Early Music Links

This page will be added to regularly.  If you have a favorite early music link that others might enjoy, please send it to neuman@emgo.org.
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Organizations -
Early Music organizations:

Early Music America: www.earlymusic.org
American Recorder Society
Portland Recorder Society: http://home.comcast.net/~pdxrecorders/
Early Music Guild of Seattle  
San Francisco Early Music Society  
Viola da Gamba Society of America
Viola da Gamba Society/Pacifica
Lute Society of America

Instruments -
sites about early instruments:
The Recorder Home Page
- A comprehensive site:  Address: http://www.carolinaclassical.com/nickl/.  
Nicholas Lander of Australia brings together information about the recorder.
The Crumhorn Page - also by Lander.
Contrabass Mania - Discussions and information on early and modern contrabass range instruments.
http://www.williamhorn.it   - William Horn Harpsichords - Keyboard maker and performer located in Brescia
http://www.cittern.theaterofmusic.com  - Renovata Cythara: The Renaissance Cittern Site

Scores
- sites that have free early music scores you can download:
The Choral Public Domain Library
 (also has an extensive collection of MIDI files)
The Werner Icking Music Archive (formerly the GMD Music Archive)
Christian Mondrup's page (a growing collection of scores and MIDIs)
The Medieval Music and Arts Foundation (links-some commercial)
Johan Tufvesson's music page (PDF or PS format scores and parts)

MIDI -
sites that have Early Music MIDI files you can listen to and download:
The Internet Renaissance Band
Spanish Early Music- new address: http://www.carolinaclassical.com/paco/
www.davidbellugi.com/ music specifically for recorders.
Midiworld Early Music Files
The Silvis Woodshed  - fascinating site, a bit of everything.
Les Musiques du Moyen Age - This site contains over a hundred Medieval midi files. The site is in French. To get to the midi page, click on "Textes et MIDI" in the left frame.
Zarlino  -  contains Medieval and Renaissance midis that have been converted to Syntonic Intonation.  Very interesting to listen to.  Syntonic intonation is discussed here.

Theory - sites that discuss music theory topics of interest to early musicians:
The Medieval Music and Arts Foundation
The Just Intonation Primer

Newsgroups - internet newsgroups related to early music:
rec.music.early
rec.music.theory