Music Links Outside of Guild Hall

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A Selection of Renaissance Music
http://www.best.com/~mccomb/music/early/faq/beginlst/renaiss.htm
Chronologically listed composers of Renaissance music and their works with jump-off points to other sites on the web pertaining to them.

Classics World
http://www.classicalmus.com/
Resources and links for music in the 18th century. Great starting point.

Sibelius Academy Early Music Links
http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/early.html
A page full of links to sites on the internet pertaining to early music and the instruments and composers of that period.

Mudcat Cafe
http://www.deltablues.com/dbsearch.html
This is a searchable index of the Digital Tradition Folk Song Database containing 5622 songs. You can also list by keyword, title and tune. Provided by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Classical MIDI Archives
http://www.prs.net/midi.html
Over 60Mb (2,200+files) of mostly classical music in midi format. Information included on how to gain copyright permission from contributors.

Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh Early Music Links
http://ivory.lm.com/~kholt/R-and-B/EMLinks/instrmts.htm
Early Instruments and Instrument Families.

Introduction to Renaissance Music

http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/edpsy387-sp95/stacey-krejci/culture/Intro/IntroMusic.html

Part of a course from the University of Illinois, this site is chock full of information on vocal and instrumental music of the times. Contains sounds as well as pictures.

 

Classical Music Midi Page

http://www.odyssey.net/subscribers/scior/music.html

Search alphabetically for a composer's name and get a brief biography along with sound recordings of his/her major works.

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
http://rism.harvard.edu/sscm
Resources and links for music in the 17th century. Great starting point.

Pammelia
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/pammelia/
Music and lyrics in text and graphics of Renaissance music.

Classical Net
http://www.classical.net/music/
The purpose of this page is to provide a point-of-entry into a wide array of informational files about classical music, as well as links to other interesting web sites.

http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/anthome.html
An on-line exhibition prepared in conjunction with the Colloquium "Antiqua Medicina:
Aspects in Ancient Medicine" held in McLeod Hall, at the Health Sciences Center of the
University of Virginia on February 27, 1997. Covers the history of medicine from Roman and Greek times to Vesalius.

 

School of Medicine: Medicine in Ancient and Medieval Times

http://www.st-mike.org/medicine/medicine.html

This site includes sections on Barber-Surgeons, a chronological table, a medical library, and links to related sources on the net. Good starting point.

 

Primary Care Internet Guide: Medical History

http://www.uib.no/isf/guide/history.htm

From the Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care comes this great collection of internet sites categorized by libraries, documents, compilations of resources and museums - all having to do with medical history. Good starting point.

 

Images from the History of Medicine

http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/ihm.html

This site provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a

variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. Searchable by keyword.

Musical Instruments
http://capella.dur.ac.uk/doug/instruments.html
Contains information, history, music and web links to the musical instruments of the middle ages and the Renaissance.

Lark in the Morning
http://www.larkinam.com
Lark in the Morning On-Line Catalog
http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/Catalog
Although a commercial site, this has great pictures of historical replicas of Renaissance instruments. They not only sell the instruments, but also kits to make them, books, videos and recordings. Each of their on-line selections gives quite an extensive description.

 

The London Early Music Shop

http://www.hobgoblin.com/early.htm

A shop in England whose goal is to make early music instruments accessible to all who have a love and feel for ancient music played on original instruments. They provide kits for making many of the early mucical instruments. The site has numerous pictures of early instruments.

 

Musicmaker's Kits

http://www.primenet.com/~musikit/index.html

This commericial site sells kits to make many muscial instruments. They also include a bit of history behind the instruments as well as sound bites of what they sound like.

Renaissance Consort
http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/cons1/
A wonderful page from Japan on many Renaissance instruments in the private collection of Yasuhiko Higaki. Hear and see him play.

Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/index.html
Contains on-line pictures of collection.

 

The Treasure Room: Historical Musical Instrument Collection

http://iberia.vassar.edu/vcl/music/text/TRvirtual.html

From the Vassar College Department of Music, this site shows pictures and the history of the early muscial instruments in their collection housed in the George Sherman Dickinson Music Library.

 

Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society

http://www.homes.com/sehks/

The Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, founded in 1980, is a non-profit, regional organization committed to the promotion of interest in and the study of early keyboard instruments, principally harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano, and organ prior to 1860, and the music intended for these instruments. SEHKS provides a forum for all aspects of early keyboard music through its meetings and publications. Membership is open to all interested persons and institutions worldwide.