Miscellaneous useful web-sites
- Cecilia is an on-line guide to music collections in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and Ireland. Put in your postcode and you can find your nearest collections of Bach or whatever. Searchable by composer, date, institution, tradition, etc; covers many kinds of music, Western and non-Western. Excellent resource if you're looking for something specific.
- The Silvis Woodshed is intended to help singers learn their pieces. Midi files of quite a few pieces. Links to possibly-useful tools near the end of the page.
- Music Workshop Guide lists adult amateur music workshops and summer schools across the world, with an early music and recorder section. Organised by category, by date or by country: everything you need to plan your holiday?
- Music Teachers UK - Many useful resources for music teachers and some for the rest of us, including a free online journal whose well-informed CD reviews include occasional early music, also downloadable manuscript paper templates in 9 - 9! - formats
- Medieval music links - notation, libraries, explanations, etc (and the same site contains a medieval-notation plug-in for Sibelius)
- software for score writing
- software for tablature (also see Fronimo, which combines mensural and tablature)
- Early Music magazine, with archives, soundclips, etc
- Goldberg - "The Early Music Portal": online magazine with articles on composers, interviews with performers, and CD reviews; festival listings covering USA and Europe; etc.
- Early Music Network - "OUR GOAL is to connect all early music Web Sites around the world and become a primary resource for early music on the Net."
- Online radio featuring early music "The best of the best, music composed before 1800 (Baroque, Renaissance, Classical, etc.) by the masters such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Charpentier, Purcell, Pergolesi" - get the audio straight from your PC/Mac, who needs to leave their desk ever again?
- Here of a Sunday Morning (HOASM) is the website for a US early music program, featuring excellent historical summaries of musical developments. It says you can listen to the current program and some of the earlier programs on-line but I haven't managed to do that yet (let me know if you succeed).
- David Kettlewell's New Renaissance site contains all sorts of material, including a practical guide to renaissance harmony and how to improvise, lots of pictures of harps, and loads of other stuff. You need enough time to fossick around in this site, seeing what might interest you (How to draw in medieval style? How to make sense of life's puzzles? and so on)
