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Mostly so I remember where this is:
Interesting-looking gathering of medieval and Renaissance sheet music

Partly so I don't lose it again, partly so all of you know about this great online medieval music resource: Codex Verus. It's simple transcriptions, melody only, of about a zillion of the tunes most popular in the current European neo-medieval scene. That's right, it's the medievalist's fake book ( Read more... )

SCAdians: What *instrumental* pieces would you consider crucial for Eastern musicians (or SCAdian musicians, or medieval reenactors in general) to know? I have a rough list in my head, but am curious to hear others' thoughts ( Read more... )

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From la_peregrina: Pilgrimage, part of today's Make Music Winter happenings in NYC -- "Early Music singers led by conductor Harold Rosenbaum walk from the Metropolitan Museum to the Cathedral of St John the Divine, carrying lanterns through Central Park while singing medieval melodies once sung along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela." Tonight at ( Read more... )

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You guys you guys you guys! Look at this HUGE series of medieval music repertoire! It's mostly 14th- and 15th-century, but I see a few volumes of earlier stuff in there too...

Corpus mensurabilis musicae at the UPenn libraryI don't have borrowing privileges at Penn at the moment, but El Grande Instrument Pimp says he'll retrieve the 14th- ( Read more... )

Someone asked a while back about medieval/early Renaissance music CD recommendations, and I completely lost track of the request -- my apologies ( Read more... )

Mostly for me, posted here in case others might find this useful...

Set of medieval music transcriptions from original sources

http://www.afropop.org/Alandalus/Alandalus.html

Neat little interactive site from Afropop Worldwide, tracing the migration of Arab music from the 8th century onward -- check it out!