Early music pages: music examples - sounds and music

Updated 7.5.2013.

• Ricercares a quattro voci by Vincenzo Galilei, 1584 transcribed by Nicholas S. Lander; information of Vincenzo, ricercare, modes, ..., and midi files
• Tablature in Microform, List of Microfilms of Keyboard, Guitar and Lute Tablature in the Music Library of the Duke University
• Lute Tablature in PostScript form - a valuable service by Wayne Cripps (large collection of free lute music)
• Curtis Clark's Medieval Midi page
• The Purcell Project - midi performances, a page by David Harvey (???)
• Lasse Viklund's Bach & Baroque Music Page including electronic Bach
• Rondellus' music examples in MP3
• "Carl Michael Bellman hemsida", contains texts and facsimiles of his 145 songs!
• Lute Music in Tablature by Richard Yates
• My own Robert de Visée transcriptions for lute
• My own Frescobaldi Toccata intabulation... - a small "Frescobaldi for lute" project
• Francesca Caccini: Il primo libro delle musiche in Scribd
• Pieces for lute and theorbo published by Richard Civiol
• Lute music downloads by Thomas Schall
• Fabritio Caroso's Il Ballarino (1581) in SCA
• Fabritio Caroso's Nobiltà di dame (1600) in American Ballroom Companion
• Cesare Negri's Nuove Inventiono di Balli (1604) in Scribd
• MVSICA TOLTA DA I MADRIGALI DI CLAVDIO MONTEVERDE, E D'ALTRI AVTORI... / E fatta spirituale da Aquilino Coppini / Accademio Inquieto... / IN MILANO ... 1607 - Very fine and well made on-line edition by PhD Jens Peter Jacobsen, University of Aarhus
• Modern editions of a lot of music from the 17:th and 18:th century, many of them not available in any other modern form by Johan Tufvesson
• Vincenzo Galilei: Il Fronimo, Venezia 1584 (facsimile) in Gallica
• Werner Icking Music Archive: lots of free sheet music, also early
• Recorder music, maintained by Christian Mondrup and Annette Mondrup
• Free early music sheet music
• ChoralWiki - home of the Choral Public Domain Library
• Home page of the Django tablatures
• Sarge Gerbode's Lute Page, close to 3000 lute pieces in French tablature
• University of North Texas: Digital Collections - facsimiles on-line
• IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library, "virtual library containing all public domain music scores and/or sheet music, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge" (they have for ex. lots of Lully there...)
• Brunetes ou petits airs tendres / Christophe Ballard. This site offers a complete facsimile of all three volumes of Brunetes ou petits airs tendres avec les doubles et la basse continue; mélées de chansons a danser published by Christophe Ballard in Paris in 1703, 1704 and 1711.
• The Digital Library Department of the Bavarian State Library and their Notendrucke aus der Musikabteilung der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare ...
• Accords nouveaux by François-Pierre Goy & Andreas Schlegel
• Ekkehard Schulze-Kurz's work on Die Laute und ihre Stimmungen
• The Düben Collection Database
• Partitions pour le luth baroque
• Peter Martin's Lute and early music books database
• Baroque Lute tablature Collection in Sribd by Ivan Jellinek

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