Early Music Sources

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The aim of Early Music Source is to simplify the access to the vast amount of sources dealing with early music. It contains bibliographical lists in the diff...

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What can we learn from Felix Mendelssohn about reviving early music

Reconstructing Music

How Josquin composed his five- and six-voice chansons

How medieval music sounded in the 18th century!

Stealing - Borrowing - Composing Thomas Weelkes (1597)

Easter special Christ lag in Todesbanden and the Lutheran Chorale

The Most French Chord

Historical translations of vocal music around 1600

Joseph Riepel and the Secrets of Galant Melody

Composing a four-part motet from scratch!

Seven misconceptions about nuns and music (1500-1700)

Score analysis #5 - William Byrd Hugh Ashton's ground [Tregian’s ground]

The Magic Table That Lets You Compose Canons Over A Cantus Firmus (1596)

Period composition (and the truth about Albinoni’s adagio)

Why do we need scholarly editions of music

A Christmas special Gaudete! And what happened to it in the 20th century

Why bad performances are bad (according to someone in 1594) Bottrigari Il Desiderio

Conducting in the 16th-18th centuries

Dario Castello Sonata Prima! (1629)

The fascinating counterpoint of Lamentation letters

Penna The Fundaments of Playing Upon a Part (1672) [PIE vol. 5]

Tutorial intabulating vocal music into keyboard notation

The Castrati A dark corner in music history

The tragically short career of Monteverdi’s star soprano Caterina Martinelli

Orfeo, Hindemith and the Early Music Revival

Cantare super librum

How we realized Monteverdi’s O quam pulchra es

Early Music Sources special opening themes 2015-2022

The Neapolitan Chord

Bach’s choir Size matters