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Early Music Links

Please note: I do get a lot of requests for links to this page. I do consider each one seriously, but I normally only accept links which are connected with early music, ie. Western music prior to 1800.

AUSTRALASIA

Early Music Societies

Australian Viola da Gamba Society

Early Music Association of NSW Inc

Early Music Society of Victoria

Early Music Society of Queensland

Canberra Recorder & Early Music Society (CREMS)

Victorian Recorder Guild

Sydney Society of Recorder Players

Recorder & Early Music Society of Western Australia (REMSWA)

Society of Recorder Players New Zealand

Recorders and Early Music Union (Wellington, NZ)

Early Music dealers/instrument makers

Dragon Early Music Pty Ltd. (Fine recorders)

Carey Beebe Harpsichords

Ian Watchorn (maker of stringed instruments)

Arthur Robinson (maker of stringed instruments)

Other early music in Australia

The Recorder Page (Nick Lander's site with everything about recorders)

Musicological Society of Australia

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (period instrument orchestra)

The Scarlatti Project (focuses on the music of Alessandro Scarlatti)

The Baroque Cantata (over 300 newly edited Italian cantatas from MS sources)

Salut! (baroque ensemble performing in Sydney/Canberra)

Early Dance Consort (Fiona Garlick & John Barnard)

La Folia (Period instrument group in Sydney)

Australian Baroque Brass

Laura Vaughan (gamba performer in Melbourne)

The Marais Project (Jenny Eriksson's concert series in Sydney)

University of Melbourne, Faculty of Music, Spring Early Music Festival

 

NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

Societies

Viola da Gamba Society of America

Early Music America

American Recorder Society

Lute Society of America

San Francisco Early Music Society

San Diego Early Music Society

Early Music Guild of Oregon

Early Music Vancouver

Publishers, luthiers, dealers & stringmakers

Boulder Early Music Shop

A-R Editions (Recent Researches series)

AquilaUSA (Aquila strings agent in USA)

Damian Dlugolecki (Maker of fine strings for early instruments)

Dominik Zuchowicz (Canadian maker of viols & early stringed instruments)

Hildegard Publishing Company (Publisher and reprinter of music by women)

PRB Productions (Publisher of early and contemporary music for various instruments/voices)

The Recorder Shop, Loux Music Publishing and Dovehouse Editions (NY recorder & early music shop)

Ralph Ashmead: bowmaker

Indiana University Press (search this site for good early music books)

Borman Violins

Other early music sites

Early Music Network

Les Voix Humaines (Canadian viol duo)

Amherst Early Music Festival (August, annually)

Early Music Boston

Berkeley Festival and Exhibition (June, every 2 years)

Shrine to Music Museum (Historical collection of musical instruments)

Vancouver Early Music Festival (August, annually)

Montreal Baroque Festival

Sociedad de Música Antigua "Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe"

Brad Leissa's G. F. Handel Homepage and PIPElist (period instrument ensembles)

Early Romantic Guitar

 

EUROPE

Societies

Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain

Viola da gamba-Gesellschaft (Switzerland)

Royal Musical Association

NEMA

Dutch Organ Society

Early Music Network

Publishers and dealers

Arnaldo Forni Editore (Publishers of facsimiles)

J.M. Fuzeau (Publishers of facsimiles)

Barenreiter & Hortus Musicus (Publisher of facsimiles and urtext editions)

Bridgewood & Neitzert (London string supplier)

King's Music (Publishers of facsimiles and modern editions)

Minkoff Editions (Publishers of facsimiles)

Aquila corde armoniche (Makers of strings for early instruments)

Corda Music Publications (Viol consorts, Guitar solo & ensembles, String music)

Tecla Editions (Guitar music specialists)

Stainer & Bell (choral, Musica Britannica, keyboard, various other instruments)

Early Music Journal from OUP

RG Editions (Music for strings, edited by Richard Gwilt)

Lindum Records & Park Lane Music Publications (CDs and editions of verse anthems & choral works)

Oxford University Press Music Publications

Hawthorns Music (Publishers of recorder consort music)

J.P.H. Publications (publishers of facsimiles of English music)

Jacks Pipes and Hammers (Stockists of early music in facsimile, modern printed editions and books on music)

Alamire Music Publishers (facsimiles)

Ut Orpheus Edizioni (publisher of modern editions of music for recorders, lute, harpsichord, etc.)

Alphonse Leduc

Chanterelle Verlag (German publisher of guitar music)

MKT Musikit (Italian mail order music service)

Cambridge University Press

Saul B. Groen (Amsterdam early music dealer)

Charivari Agreable (Performing ensemble and publisher)

Cornetto Verlag (German publisher and instrument dealer)

Performers, makers, shops and early music people

Fretwork (UK viol consort)

Phantasm (UK viol consort)

David van Edwards (lutemaker)

Gesina Liedmeier (violmaker)

Henner Harders (violmaker)

Kees van Hemert (Dutch bowmaker)

George Stevens (UK maker of harps, lutes & citterns)

Rose Consort of Viols

Dmitry Badiarov (Maker of early bowed stringed instruments)

Mollenhauer Flutes & Recorders

Bizzi Clavicembali (Italian harpsichord site)

London Baroque

Marco Turnovec (maker of viols and early bows)

Dmitry Gindin Fine Antique Instrument Dealer and specialist in Italian violins from Cremona

Affourtit Historical Bows

Viennese fortepianos by Paul McNulty

Rene Slotboom (violmaker)

Boaz Berney Historical Flutes

Simon Polak (traverso maker)

Ymak (Danish shop with some baroque instruments)

Other European early music websites

FortePiano site (Discussion of issues in early music)

Musikmuseet in Stockholm (Historical collection of musical instruments)

Russell Collection of early instruments

European Union Baroque Orchestra

Dolmetsch Online

Orpheon Foundation and Orpheon Consort of Viols (Musical instrument collection)

Pompadour's Early Music site

Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools

Seminaire Estival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie

 

ASIA

Viola da Gamba Society of Japan

 

OTHER MUSIC LINKS

J.S. Bach homepage

Contempo site

Harpsichord initiative

Journal of 17th century music

RISM

Australian Music Centre

Musica Viva Australia

The Violin Man (Scots violin maker & online shop)

Classical.com (online classical music subscription offering listening, downloads, custom CDs, and information)

David Vernon Violins (modern instruments, but they do Baroque conversions)