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

• Grove Music Online
• The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians

• 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)!!)
• RISM-US, music manuscripts, printed music, and libretti of the period ca. 1580-1825
• John Playford's 1651 The English Dancing Master, an electronic copy
• Raybro's Home Page - Contains links to an exposition on Michael Praetorius (including woodcuts from his Syntagma Musicum) and a tutorial on Reading and Transcribing Renaissance Music Notation. (The address is a redirection URL: if it fails, please use this URL)
• 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
• Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Vihuela, Guitar, and Cittern by Dr. Gary R. Boye in the Duke University
• 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 current research
• A Viola da Gamba Bibliography, compiled by Taco Stronks and Johannes Boer
• An Unknown and Unique Broadside Lute Instruction by Kenneth Sparr
• An Early 18th-Century Swedish Lute Tutor by Kenneth Sparr
• The Pifarri Page, information of wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to1620 by Brenda J. Johnstone
• Understanding Temperaments by Pierre Lewis - an excellent page with good explanations, sounding examples, and a Java applet for demonstrating and experimenting various historical tunings
• Bernard D. Sherman's Performance Practice Web Site
• 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
• Meantone Temperaments
• 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

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