Medieval and Renaissance Music Resources

(Dr. Gordon J. Callon)

Other Useful Web Sites:

Renaissance (General)	Genre Studies (Renaissance)	Timelines & Chronologies	Instruments
Acadia Early Music Archive	Online Scores for Study and Analysis [GJC]		Facsimiles
Renaissance Dance	Baroque Music History	General Reference Sources	Composers
Online Music Scores (to Download)	Iconographic sources	Score Links	Notation
Renaissance & Baroque Art	Eighteenth-Century Art	Classical Era Music	Careers in Music
Music Technology	Bibliographies	Online Journals and Magazines	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)

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• 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]

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

Renaissance Music History

• Grove Music Online   [Open access only to general information and demos; full access only by subscription]

Renaissance, General

• Renaissance [Nancy B. Mautz, NM's Creative Impulse, The Artist's view of World History and Western Civilization: The Development of Western Civilization, World History]
• Atlas Italian Renaissance
• Early Modern Italian States
• Early Modern Italian Cities
• Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
• "The CRRS is a research centre with a library devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700. The Centre organizes lectures and seminars, and maintains an active series of publications."
• Iter access via Library [Click on "I" & scroll down; access only from on-campus networks]

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• ["Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a not-for-profit research project with partners in Toronto (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe. Iter was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of electronic resources."]

Renaissance Music, Comprehensive Sites

• Early Music FAQ ("The largest reference for European Medieval and Renaissance music on the web.") [Todd Michel McComb]
• Link Index
• Site Outline
• Scores, Sounds & Sources
• Topics:
• What is Early Music?
• What were the twelve modes?
• Tritones in early music: Were they always prohibited? [Margo Schulter]
• Voice Definitions and Ranges [Elizabeth Randell Upton]
• What was the first opera? [John Howell]
• Zarlino: Justesse a cappella à la Renaissance [In French (A mirror of a site designed to illustrate Zarlino's 16th century ideas on tuning, by Yves Ouvrard, Jean-Pierre Vidal, & Olivier Bettens]
• What is a Landini cadence? [Margo Schulter]
• How were musicians trained? [Margo Schulter]
• The Genre of the Lamentations [François Velde]

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• 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
• Renaissance Music and Dance [Renaissance, Nancy B. Mautz, NM's Creative Impulse. (Collection of links)]
• Historical Timeline [J. Peter Burkholder, Music M401 History and Literature of Music I: Antiquity to 1750, Indiana University School of Music]

Specific Periods & Places

• Ars Antiqua XIIe - XIIIe siècles [Une galerie de compositeurs, Musique, L'Espace Culturel, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, France] [in French]
• The Courts Of Burgundy in the Renaissance: Incubators for the Arts [Cynthia Cyrus]

Analysis & Theory

• Late Renaissance & Early Baroque, stylistic comparisons [GJC]
• 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]
• Norman Douglas Anderson, Aspects of Early Major-Minor Tonality: Structural Characteristics of the Music of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University

Genre Studies

• Vocal Music (general):
• 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]
• Instrumental Music (general):
• Renaissance Instrumental Music [J. Peter Burkholder, Music M401 History and Literature of Music I: Antiquity to 1750, Indiana University School of Music]

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Notation

• Alain Naigeon's Introduction to Renaissance Notation: Notation ancienne:
• Mensuration - an introduction [English]
La mensuration - introduction [French]
• Ligatures [English]
• Les Ligatures [French]
• Renaissance Music Notation from the mid-16th century—Transcribing and Reading White Mensural Notation

Printers (Renaissance)

• printing music [Peter Fitz]
• publishing music [Peter Fitz]
• Alphabetical List of Printers and Publishers [sixteenth-century printers of music for lute, Gary R. Boye, Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela]
• Notes On Music Printing [Octavo Essays, Octavo]
• Printing in England from William Caxton to Christopher Barker, An Exhibition: November 1976 - April 1977 [The Department of Special Collections, Glasgow University Library]
• Petrucci - The First Printer of Music [Pierre-F. Roberge, Early Music FAQ, Todd Michel McComb]

Specific Topics

• The Golden Mean:
• Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section [Dr Ron Knott]
• Fibonacci Numbers and Nature
• Fibonacci Numbers and Nature - Part 2: Why is the Golden section the "best" arrangement?
• The Golden Proportion [Eddy Levin]
• The Written Word [facsimiles of medieval and renaissance manuscripts and printed sources, and links to similar sites]
• Nuremberg Chronicle Woodcuts

Other Sets of Links

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

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Renaissance Dance

• Renaissance Dance [Andrew Draskóy]
• The Institute of Historical Dance (Ghent, Belgium)
• Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (Transcription, by Lieven Baert and Veerle Fack, of the Ms. 9085 from the Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, Brussels)
• Choreographies in the Salisbury ms. Fly-leaf in Joh. de Janua, Catholicon (Venice, Io. Hamman, 1497). Copy in the library of Salisbury cathedral. [Veerle Fack]
• Images from Arbeau (1589) [Greg Lindahl, SCA Music and Dance Homepage]
• Fabrito Caroso's Il Ballarino (1581) [Greg Lindahl, SCA Music and Dance Homepage]

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