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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. |
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Australasia |
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Australian Viola da Gamba Society Early Music Association of NSW Inc Early Music Society of Victoria Early Music Society of Queensland |
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) |
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Early Music dealers/instrument makers |
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Ian Watchorn(maker of stringed instruments) |
Arthur Robinson (maker of stringed instruments) |
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Other early music in Australia |
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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) 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 Ironwood Chamber Ensemble (period instrument group) |
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North & South America |
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Societies |
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Publishers, luthiers, dealers & stringmakers |
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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) Indiana University Press (search this site for good early music books) |
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Other early music sites |
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Les Voix Humaines (Canadian viol duo) Amherst Early Music Festival (August, annually) Berkeley Festival and Exhibition (June, every 2 years) Shrine to Music Museum (Historical collection of musical instruments) Vancouver Early Music Festival (August, annually) |
Sociedad de Música Antigua "Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe" Brad Leissa's G. F. Handel Homepage and PIPElist (period instrument ensembles) |
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Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain Viola da gamba-Gesellschaft (Switzerland)
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Publishers and dealers |
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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) 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)
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Ut Orpheus Edizioni (publisher of modern editions of music for recorders, lute, harpsichord, etc.) Chanterelle Verlag (German publisher of guitar music) MKT Musikit (Italian mail order music service) Saul B. Groen (Amsterdam early music dealer) Charivari Agreable (Performing ensemble and publisher) Cornetto Verlag (German publisher and instrument dealer) |
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Performers, makers, shops and early music people |
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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) Dmitry Badiarov (Maker of early bowed stringed instruments) Mollenhauer Flutes & Recorders Bizzi Clavicembali (Italian harpsichord site) Marco Turnovec (maker of viols and early bows) |
Dmitry Gindin Fine Antique Instrument Dealer and specialist in Italian violins from Cremona Viennese fortepianos by Paul McNulty Rene Slotboom (violmaker) Simon Polak (traverso maker) Ymak (Danish shop with some baroque instruments) |
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Other European early music websites |
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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 Orpheon Foundation and Orpheon Consort of Viols (Musical instrument collection) |
Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools Seminaire Estival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie
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Asia |
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Viola da Gamba Society of Japan
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Other Music Links |
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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)
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