National/International Organizations

• Early Music America

• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

• American Recorder Society

• The Academy of St. Cecilia (London)

Regional Organizations

• Southern California Early Music Society

• Renaissance & Baroque Society of Pittsburgh

• San Francisco Early Music Society

• Early Music Guild of Seattle

• Early Music Chicago

Resources 

• Early Music: Frequently Asked Questions

• Classical Net

• Early Music Periodicals: Past and Present

• The Choral Public Domain Library (thousands of free scores)

• Every Note (thousands of downloadable scores)

• Gregorian Chant

• Early Music Institute, Indiana University

• Music from the Vatican Exhibit

• Goldberg: The Early Music Portal

• Repertory Overview Lists (suggested listening)

Early Musical Instruments

Information Sources

• Crumhorn

• Historical Harp Society

• Hurdy-Gurdy

• San Diego County Recorder Society

• Recorder Home Page (Australia)

• Sacramento Recorder Society

• Orpheon Foundation (Museum of Historical Musical Instruments)

• Lute Society of America

Instrument Makers and Vendors

• David T. Van Zandt, Violin Maker

• The Harpsichord Clearing House

• SØRLI Lautenwerk and Harpsichords

• Dmitry Badiarov, Historical Violin Workshop in Brussels

• Owen Daly, Maker of Early Keyboard Instruments

• Pentacle: Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass Fittings and Accessories (in India)

Early Music Performers

• Courtly Noyse (San Diego group)  

• Bach Collegium (San Diego group)

• List of Early Music Vocal Ensembles

• List of Period Instrument Performance Ensembles

• Bimbetta: “5 Babes go for Baroque”

• Mississippi Early Music Ensemble (Oxford, MS)

Compact Disc & Record Sources

• BMG Classical Music

• Lyrichord

• harmonia mundi

Other

• Classical.com (online classical music site)

• Labyrinth Database

• Renaissance Dance

• Avondale Press Catalog

• Free early music played on classical guitar

• Harpsichord lessons (L.A. area)

 

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