Early music pages: treatises, bibliographies, theory, articles ...

• Oxford Music Online
• RISM - The International Inventory of Musical Sources - Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) - is a cross- country non-profit joint venture which aims at comprehensive documentation of the worldwide existing musical sources.

• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML), Latin music theory writings from 4th to 17th centuries (Indiana University, gopher)
• Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum (TMI) project of the Department of Computer and Humanities of Utrecht University. The aim of this project is to publish a series of 16th and early 17th-century music treatises (CONTAINS ALREADY the complete text of Zarlino's Le istitutioni harmoniche (Venice, 1558)!!)

• 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
• A Hand-List of Tablatures for the Lute, Guitar, and Related InstrumentsVihuela by Dr. Gary R. Boye
• English Lute Manuscripts and Scribes 1530-1630, thesis of Julia Craig-McFeely (link to the old page)
• "The Improved Cittern" - Catalogue of Printed and Manuscript Music for the Swedish Lute by Kenneth Sparr
• Tim Crawford's articles
• An Unknown and Unique Broadside Lute Instruction by Kenneth Sparr
• An Early 18th-Century Swedish Lute Tutor by Kenneth Sparr
• Understanding Temperaments by Pierre Lewis - an excellent page with good explanations, sounding examples, and a Java applet for demonstrating and experimenting various historical tunings
• Hexachords, solmization, and musica ficta by Margo Schulter
• SOURCES MANUSCRITES EN TABLATURE / MANUSCRIPT SOURCES IN TABLATURE Luth et théorbe / Lute and Theorbo c.1500-c.1800, A Descriptive Inventory published by CHRISTIAN MEYER avec la collaboration de Tim Crawford, François-Pierre Goy, Peter Király, Monique Rollin
• Chitarrone, theorbo and Archlute by Robert Spencer
• An Introduction to Historical Tunings by Kyle Gann
• Tuning Systems by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
• The Printed English Lute Song in 17th Century England by Michelle Oswell
• CATALOGUE DES SOURCES MANUSCRITES EN TABLATURE Luth et théorbe c.1500-c.1800 Catalogue descriptif / A Descriptive Inventory Publié par / Published by CHRISTIAN MEYER
• Manuscripts for Baroque Lute - A Catalogue by Peter Steur
• EarlyMusicNews.org
• Thomas Mace: Musick's monument, on-line by the National Library of Scotland
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