Music & Dance Links
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- Exploring Music & Dance Outside of
Virtual Renaissance
Alden
and Cali Hackmann's Hurdy-gurdy Page
http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/hghome.html
Information, pictures, sound bites and links to the hurdy-gurdy.
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- The Cittern Page
http://www.execpc.com/~danb/cittern.html
Contains information, history, music and web links to the cittern
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- Classics
World
http://www.classicalmus.com/
Resources and links for music in the 18th century. Great starting
point.
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- Classical
MIDI Archives
http://www.prs.net/midi.html
Over 60Mb (2,200+files) of mostly classical music in midi format.
Information included on how to gain copyright permission from
contributors.
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- Classical Music Midi Page
- http://www.odyssey.net/subscribers/scior/music.html
- Search alphabetically for a composer's name
and get a brief biography along with sound recordings of his/her
major works.
Classical Net
http://www.classical.net/music/
The purpose of this page is to provide a point-of-entry into
a wide array of informational files about classical music, as
well as links to other interesting web sites.
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- Crumhorn Home Page
http://www.iinet.net.au/~nickl/crumhorn.html
This page on the Renaissance instrument, the crumhorn, contains
modern reconstructions, how to make a crumhorn, music of the
curmhorn, MIDI files, and further reading.
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- David Daye's Bagpipe Page
- http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/~bdaye/bagpipes.html
- Information on the history of the bagpipe,
photos, sound files, upcoming performances and links to other
related piping pages on the web.
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- Donald
Nichols' Concertina Page
- http://204.91.85.9/dnichols/DoN.html
- Contains a graphical tour of the parts of
a concertine, articles on the history of the concertina, fingering
charts, and links to related sites on the web.
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- Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical
Instruments.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/index.html
Contains on-line pictures of collection.
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- Guided Tour of a Harpsichord
- http://www.zuckermann.com/kits/tour.html
- From Hubbard Harpsichords comes a great point
and click tour of the harpsichord. By clicking on a section of
one of the diagrams of a harpsichord, you are taken to information
about that part of the instrument. If you are really into harpsichords,
you should click your way through this tour.
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- Hammered Dulcimer Page
http://www.rtpnet.org/~gotwals/hd/dulcimer.html
Contains information on the hammered dulcimer including learning
how to play it, purchasing one, music resources, bands, societies,
recordings, history, and internet as well as other resources.
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- The Harp Page
http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/harp/harp.html
Contains information, history, music and web links to the harp.
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- Harpsichord
Info Center
http://www.geocites.com/Paris/1685
Contains information, history, music and web links to the harpsichord.
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- Highland pipes made from PVC piping
- http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/bagpipe.htm
- From the Straits of Mackinac in northern
Michican comes Dennis Havlena's instructions on how to build
Highland pipes made from PVC piping for very little money and
time.
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- How to build a simple Hammered-Dulcimer (12 doubled
strings)
- http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/dulc.htm
- From the Straits of Mackinac in northern
Michican comes Dennis Havlena's instructions on how to build
a hammered dulcimer for very little money and time from materials
that are easy to get. There are also directions (including a
photo) on how to "Build
a conduit-tubing dulcimer"
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- How to Build a Hurdy-Gurdy for Under $20
- http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/hurdy.htm
- From the Straits of Mackinac in northern
Michican comes Dennis Havlena's instructions on how to build
a hurdy-gurdy for under twenty dollars from materials that are
easy to get.
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- HurdyGurdy Music
- http://www.savageresearch.com/jester/hurdygurdy.html
- Although this is a commercial site, it contains
great sound samples from tapes and CDs of HurdyGurdy Music. Also
contains basic information about the instrument.
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- The Kitchen Musician Dulcimer Site
- http://members.aol.com/kitchiegal/index.html
- A wealth of information on the dulcimer,
its history, music, and resources. Download musical scores along
with midi sections from their pages. Read articles on period
music. See period photos and hear recordings of period music.
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- Index of Ocarina World
http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickl/giorgiop.html
Contains information, history, music and web links to the Ocarina.
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- Lark
in the Morning
http://www.larkinam.com
Lark
in the Morning On-Line Catalog
http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/Catalog
Although a commercial site, this has great pictures of historical
replicas of Renaissance instruments. They not only sell the instruments,
but also kits to make them, books, videos and recordings. Each
of their on-line selections gives quite an extensive description.
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- The
London Early Music Shop
- http://www.hobgoblin.com/
- A shop in England whose goal is to make early
music instruments accessible to all who have a love and feel
for ancient music played on original instruments. They provide
kits for making many of the early mucical instruments. The site
has numerous pictures of early instruments.
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- Mark Shepherd's Flute Page
- http://www.markshep.com/flute/index.html
- Get some tips on how to approach learning
the modern flute. Go through an online tutorial in eight lessons
on how to play a simple folk flute of bamboo, clay, wood, or
other material. Get the plans for making your own "shepherd's
pipe" from PVC pipe sold in most hardware stores.
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- Matthew Szostak's Hurdy-Gurdy Page
- http://www.midcoast.com/~beechhil/vielle/
- Excellent source of information on the Hurdy
Gurdy (Vielle a Roue). Includes a description of the instrument
complete with clickable diagram, sound samples, general information
for buying a hurdy-gurdy, and links to other hurdy-gurdy and
music resources.
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- Mudcat Cafe
http://www.deltablues.com/dbsearch.html
This is a searchable index of the Digital Tradition Folk Song
Database containing 5622 songs. You can also list by keyword,
title and tune. Provided by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
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- Music and Dance of the Renaissance
- http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~cbladey/guy/html/music.html
- Jacobean music and dance explained including
steps and accompanying music to two popular dances of the period
as well as other midis for period music arranged by composer.
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- Musicmaker's
Kits
- http://www.musikit.com/
- This commericial site sells kits to make
many muscial instruments. They also include a bit of history
behind the instruments as well as sound bites of what they sound
like.
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- Pammelia
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/pammelia/
Music and lyrics in text and graphics of Renaissance music.
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- Pipe & Tabor
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/ijs/pipe-and-tabor.html
Contains the rationale, history, manufacturers, references and
links to the Renaissance instrument, pipe and tabor.
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- The Recorder Home Page
- http://www.iinet.net.au/~nickl/recorder.html
- Great site for all interested in the recorder.
Contains articles, technique hints, as well as links to source
material, books & journals, recorder making, composers, players,
recordings, education, software, societies, and others.
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- Renaissance Musical Instruments - Homepages
http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/instr/specific.html
- A large collection of links to great Renaissance
musical instruments, categorized by type.
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- Renaissance Consort
http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/cons1/
A wonderful page from Japan on many Renaissance instruments in
the private collection of Yasuhiko Higaki. Hear and see him play.
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- Renaissance Dance
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/diessay2.html
- Overview of three dancing masters of the
period and their detailed treatises on social dance that included
descriptions of the most popular dances for the period. Includes
some graphical illustrations and even a few video clips
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- Reniassance Dance
- http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~andrew/rendance.html
- A wonderful collection of primary and secondary
sources on-line.
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- A Selection of Renaissance Music
http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/beginlst/renaiss.htm
Chronologically listed composers of Renaissance music and their
works with jump-off points to other sites on the web pertaining
to them.
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- SCA Dance Cheat Sheets
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dance/Top.html
A collection of cheat-sheets for Renaissance dancing, including
sources of printed music.
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- Sibelius Academy Early Music Links
http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/early.html
A page full of links to sites on the internet pertaining to early
music and the instruments and composers of that period.
Society for Seventeenth-Century
Music
http://rism.harvard.edu/sscm
Resources and links for music in the 17th century. Great starting
point
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- Southeastern
Historical Keyboard Society
- http://www.sehks.org/
- The Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society,
founded in 1980, is a non-profit, regional organization committed
to the promotion of interest in and the study of early keyboard
instruments, principally harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano,
and organ prior to 1860, and the music intended for these instruments.
SEHKS provides a forum for all aspects of early keyboard music
through its meetings and publications. Membership is open to
all interested persons and institutions worldwide.
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- The Treasure Room: Historical Musical Instrument Collection
- http://iberia.vassar.edu/vcl/music/text/TRvirtual.html
- From the Vassar College Department of Music,
this site shows pictures and the history of the early muscial
instruments in their collection housed in the George Sherman
Dickinson Music Library.
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Authors: The VirRen Team led by C.S.Marszalek & B.Panagakis
Created: 8 August 1996; Modified: 23 August 2004
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