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Early music

      Titles Descriptions
  1. Cantus
  2. Early Music
  3. Early Music Women Composers
  4. European Carols: Medieval, Renaissance, and Traditional
  5. Hildegard's Music and Discography
  6. Life and Works of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
  7. Medieval Music
  8. Medieval Music Database
  9. Musica Scotica
  10. Pre-1600s Ballads
  11. Singer's Guide to Bibliographic Resources for Medieval and Renaissance Music
  12. THEMA: Music Theory of the Middle Ages
  13. West Gallery Music

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Cantus
Database of Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the Divine Office.
     Author: Steiner, Ruth
     Subjects: early music
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: reference data
Early Music
Journal dedicated to early music and its interpretation, covering performance practice, iconography, sources and instruments. Searchable abstracts from 1996 onwards.
     Author: Oxford University Press
     Subjects: early music
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: journal
Early Music Women Composers
Resources related to early women composers such as Hildegard of Bingen, Comtessa Beatriz de Dia, St Birgitta of Sweden and Christine de Pisan, including a chronology, discography, MIDI sound files and a Celebration of the Feminine Divine in Women's Early Music.
     Author: Whitworth, Sarah
     Subjects: early music, women in music
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: discography, documents
European Carols: Medieval, Renaissance, and Traditional
Series of MIDI files presenting Tempus Adest Floridum, Coventry Carol, Dulci Jubilo, Veni, Veni Emanuel, Greensleeves, and The Holly and the Ivy.
     Author: Clark, Curtis
     Subjects: church music, early music, renaissance music, vocal music
     DeweyClass: 780.9031
     Resource type: sound collection
Hildegard's Music and Discography
Essay on the music of Hildegard von Bingen covering the compass of her works, the musical forms she used, and the basic musical elements of medieval chant. Includes selected discography.
     Author: Fierro, Nancy
     Subjects: early music, german composers, women in music
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: article, discography
Life and Works of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
An introduction to the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, including a bibliography, discography and glossary. She produced major works of theology and visionary writings, wrote treatises about natural history and medicinal uses of plants, animals, trees and stones, and is the first composer whose biography is known.
     Author: Lerman, Kristina
     Subjects: early music, women in history
     DeweyClass: 274.302
     Resource type: article, discography
Medieval Music
MIDI files of works by a wide range of medieval composers, including Adam de la Halle, and a selection of anonymous pieces.
     Author: Clark, Curtis
     Subjects: early music
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: sound collection
Medieval Music Database
Database containing an inventory of 70,000 musical works from the middle ages and the early Renaissance period. The collection can be browsed by composer, genre and manuscript, and is searchable by keyword.
     Author: Stinson, John, La Trobe University
     Subjects: early music, renaissance music
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: documents, index
Musica Scotica
Information about a series of scholarly editions of early Scottish music, studies, and recordings, under the general editorship of Dr. Kenneth Elliott. The publications aim to serve both practical and academic needs. Here are included details of published and forthcoming editions.
     Author: Glasgow University Music Department
     Subjects: early music, music research, scottish music
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: productinfo
Pre-1600s Ballads
Project aiming to produce a collection of ballads from before 1600, containing sheet music and lyrics, both in their original form, and in a form intelligible to a modern listener.
     Author: Lindahl, Greg
     Subjects: early music, vocal music
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: documents
Singer's Guide to Bibliographic Resources for Medieval and Renaissance Music
Selective bibliography intended for singers interested in medieval and Renaissance music and its philosophy, theory and history.
     Author: Thomas, Kirsti S. & Mendes, Esther
     Subjects: early music, renaissance music, vocal music
     DeweyClass: 782
     Resource type: bibliography
THEMA: Music Theory of the Middle Ages
A database of hypertext transcriptions of manuscript copies of 14 Latin theoretical treatises related to musica mensurabilis of the thirteenth century.
     Author: University of Georgia
     Subjects: early music, music theory
     DeweyClass: 780.901
     Resource type: documents
West Gallery Music
Scholarly information on gallery music, the music sung by church and chapel bands in the 1700s and early 1800s, also known as west gallery music, Georgian psalmody and country psalmody. Contains articles, transcriptions and scanned images of material from the gallery music period and original scores and transcriptions that can be printed out.
     Author: Glover, Sue
     Subjects: early music, vocal music
     DeweyClass: 781.7
     Resource type: articles