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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
Created for the Fermilab
LInC program sponsored by Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory Education Office,
Friends of Fermilab, United States Department of Energy, Illinois State Board of Education, and
North Central Regional Technology in Education
Consortium which is operated by North
Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL).
Authors: Bonnie
Panagakis, Chris Marszalek,
Linda Mazanek
School: Twin Groves Junior High School, Buffalo Grove, Illinois
60089
Created: December 8 1997 - Updated: