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Early Music Links |
19th March 2024 |
¤ Early Music Groups
¤ Aitone - A capella consort based in the East Midlands
¤ Beautiful Jo Records - the home of Oxford Waits - earlymusic group
¤ Charivari Agreable - Baroque group based in Oxford
¤ Courtlye Musick - Early Music Group based in Southampton
¤ Dante Ferrara - Multi-instrumentalist and Tudor & Restoration singer
¤ Emma Kirkby - international soprano
¤ Fires of Love - Scotlands leading Early Music Groiup
¤ Hexachordia - Early Music Group
¤ Lachrimae Consort - Midland-based early music consort
¤ Leicestershire Victorian Dance group - Weekly classes, costumed balls and displays in Victorian and historical dancing
¤ Mean Time - Early Music Group
¤ Michala Petri - Home site of Michala Petri & Lars Hannibal
¤ Minstrels Gallery - Early Music group specialising in medieval and renaissance music
¤ Piva - Group inspired by the professional Waits and Court Bands of the 16th and 17th centuries
¤ Quadriga - One of Austrian leading Early Music Groups
¤ Red Priest/Piers Adams - One of the world's finest recorder players
¤ The Waits Society - The official site of the Waits Society
¤ The York Waites - Waites group based in York
¤ Vareria Mignaco & Alfonso Marin - Soprano & lute duo
¤ Wyldes Noyse - Waites Group
¤ Information Sites
¤ Development of Western Music - Helpful links for music sites
¤ Early Music Online - This is a jumping off point for an unofficial round-up of the huge number of non-professional orchestras and ensembles UK.
¤ Find Amateur Orchestra
¤ HIP Singing - Re-workings of papers given at the National Early Music Association conference held in the Music Department on 7–10 July 2009.
¤ Origins of 7 instruments - Interesting start to the history of 7 popular instruments
¤ Leicester Accomodation
¤ Bowns Best - Independent reviews of some of the best hotels and restaurants in the world
¤ Casa Romana - Some of the best Italian food outside Italy.
¤ Leicester Hotels - Useful site listing hotels around Leicester
¤ Makers
¤ Bob Deegan Harpsichords - Lancaster Harpsichord Maker
¤ FoMRHI - Fascinating Group of Instrument Makers who share techniques
¤ Malcolm Rose - Harpsichord Maker. Useful supplier of strings for keyboards.
¤ Peter Collins Organs - Organ Builder based in Leicestershire
¤ Steven Sørli - Hand-crafted harpsichords and gut-strung harpsichords (lautenwerk)
¤ Miscellaneous Sites
¤ BachTrack - helpful site for finding Classical Music
¤ BBC Leicester - BBC Leicester - the first stop for local information
¤ British Events Guide - Useful Tourist Site
¤ Early Music America - serves and strengthens the early music community in North America and further afield
¤ Historically Informed Summer School - Course for singers, string & woodwind players exploring connections between early & traditional music."
¤ Leicester Festivals - Leicester Festivals Facebook Page
¤ Leicester Forum - community site for discussing all aspects of Leicestersire life
¤ Leicester Mercury - daily newspaper with large Leicestershire circulation
¤ Leicestershire Concert Diary - Usefull site for advanced concert planning in Leicestershire
¤ Leicestershire Tourist Information - useful local tourism site
¤ Terra Wines - Local Importer of Fine Wines -retail and restaurant
¤ The Early Music Pioneers Archive (TEMPAR) - lives, work & influence of importany, largely forgotten pioneering figures of early music revival
¤ WhereCanWeGo - Britain's What's On Events Guide
¤ Music Retailers - Shops specialising in Early Music
¤ Early Music Shop - Englands Largest Retailer of Early Musical Instruments and Music
¤ Recorder Mail - Supplier ot Recorder Music (and more)
¤ Other Music Festivals
¤ Leicester Comedy Festival - The longest running comedy festival in the UK . 180+ events in 50 venues across Leicestershire
¤ Leicester Early Music Festival
¤ Leicester Festivals - The official link to all Leicester Festivals
¤ Leicester International Music Festival
¤ York Early Music - The Music festival traditionally held in York...
¤ Publishers
¤ Green Man Press - practical performing editions of vocal music of the baroque period
¤ Jacks, Pipes & Hammers - publishers of facsimilies of 16th and 17thC music
¤ Societies
¤ British Arts Festivals Association - Links to all the major arts festivals in UK
¤ British Clavichord Society - encouraging the study and enjoyment of the clavichord, and promoting recitals
¤ British Harpsichord Socoety - The first port of call for all interested in the Harpsichord
¤ Florence International Music Summer Campus - Classical and jazz music summer courses in the Florence Music School "Il Trillo",
¤ FoMRHI - Makers of Historical Musical Instrument
¤ Friends of Cathedral Music - a society for all interested in English Cathedral Music
¤ Gregorian Association - Society for promoting Gregorian Chant
¤ Handel - a must for all Handel fans
¤ Leicester Civic Society - Members are interested in the preservation of Leicester's Historic Buildings
¤ Lincoln Waites - Interesting site researching Lincoln Waites' History
¤ Making Music - National Federation of Music Societies
¤ Midlands Early Music Forum - Early Music Forum based in Birmingham area
¤ National Early Music Association - The National Group for Early Music
¤ Renaissance Historical Dance Society - Historical Dance, archery, Tudor medicine & more
¤ The Galpin Society - History, Construction and Development of musical instruments
¤ The Jackdaws Educational Trust - Residential music courses, schools and community programmes, concerts and vocal awards
¤ The Waits Website - Official site of the International Guild of Town Pipers. Historical information on Waits and European equivalents, pictures etc.