Music 1253 Medieval Music through the Early Baroque Period

Meeting Times, Autumn or Winter Term: Arranged with individual students.

Other Useful Web Sites for Music 1253:

General Music Reference Sources	Composers	Timelines & Chronologies	Bibliographies
Baroque Music History	Medieval Music History	Acadia Early Music Archive	Instruments
Renaissance Music History	Iconographic sources	Online Music Scores (to Download)	Facsimiles
Genre Studies (Renaissance)	Online Scores for Study and Analysis		Score Links
Renaissance (General)	Renaissance Dance	Online Journals and Magazines	Notation
Renaissance & Baroque Art	Eighteenth-Century Art	Classical Era Music	Webcasters
Vaughan Memorial Library	Libraries, Archives, and Museums	Internet Resources, Libraries	Museums
Online Catalogue (WebCat)	General / Lists of Libraries	Specific Libraries	Online Archives
Reference Sources and Resources for Papers		Online Indexes & Research Databases
Grove Music Online   [Open access only to general information and demos; full access only by subscription]

Medieval Music History

Medieval Music, Comprehensive Sites

• Early Music FAQ ("The largest reference for European Medieval and Renaissance music on the web.") [Todd Michel McComb (mccomb@medieval.org)]
• Link Index
• Site Outline
• Topics:
• Chord structure in medieval music
• Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony [Margo Schulter (mschulter@value.net)]
• 2. Basic concepts [definitions]
• Thirteenth-Century Polyphony: A Quick Guide to Combinations and Cadences [Margo Schulter (mschulter@value.net)] (plain text version)
• Why is chant called Gregorian? [John Howell (John.Howell@vt.edu)]
• Who were the fumeurs?
• Early Music: Medieval & Renaissance Music History ["SCOPE: This guide is intended to provide the user with a selective list of reference tools for research into the history of medieval and renaissance music." University of Maryland Libraries]
• Identifying and Locating Musical Sources: A Guide to RISM and other Resources
• The Internet Public Library, The Middle Ages [Music History 102 a Guide to Western Composers and their Music from the Middle Ages to the Present, Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian, The Juilliard School, New York] [with Real Audio sound excerpts]
• (brief overview)

Music 1253 Top

• Gregorian Chant
• Notre Dame and the Ars Antiqua
• Secular Music: The Trouvères and the Troubadours
• Guillaume de Machaut and the Ars Nova
• Medieval Music & Arts Foundation [Todd Michel McComb (mccomb@medieval.org)]
• The Internet Public Library, The Middle Ages [Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian, The Juilliard School, New York] [with Real Audio sound excerpts]
  • Gregorian Chant
  • Notre Dame and the Ars Antiqua
  • The Trouvères and the Troubadours
  • Guillaume de Machaut and the Ars Nova

Analysis & Theory

• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum: [Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, School of Music, Indiana University]
• THEMA [(Music) THEory of the Middle Ages], a hypertextual database!
• La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database: [John Stinson, La Trobe University]

Genre Studies

• Vocal Music (general):
• A Singer's Guide to Bibliographic Resources for Medieval and Renaissance Music [Kirsti S. Thomas & Esther Mendes]
• Chantez-vous français? Remarques curieuses sur le français chanté du Moyen Age à la période baroque, Avec quelques considérations sur le latin chanté des Français, par Olivier Bettens [at: Virga]

Other Sets of Links

• Medieval Music [a collection of links; Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart]

Music 1253 Top

• Medieval Music Links [Charles K. Moss Piano Studio]

Score Links

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