The International Opera Foundation Eszterháza - The IOFE hope to reconstruct the 1781 Eszterháza opera house based on detailed, original documentation; resurrect the original Eszterháza repertoire of nearly 100 operas by Haydn and other composers; and establish an International Opera Academy where the different elements of 18th Century opera performances would be researched and taught to singers, stage directors, designers and scholars.

Operabaroque.com - Lots of useful information, including forthcoming performances and recordings.

Opera in Seventeen-Century Venice - The Creation of a Genre by Ellen Rosand, University of California Press 1991. Online book.

Opera Today - Reprints recent reviews not available elsewhere online.

Ars Magna Lucis & Umbrae

Oeuvres lyriques parodiées (1669-1752) - liste de travail en cours

L'ouverture à la française

Appollon et Cyrène by Jean-Baptiste Allain-Dupré, an ancestor of the early flute virtuoso Philippe Alain-Dupré.

Chateau de Versailles

OperaGlass Opera Composers - with chronological lists of operas.

Baroque Libretto - some French librettos online

Bob's Opera World - covers a few early operas (archive.org copy)

Robin Linklater - Theatre & Opera Design - Specialist in baroque opera costumes and design.

Bonnie Kruger - Specialist in baroque opera costumes and design.

Suzi Clarke, Costumier

Parrish Relics - Jewelry and costume accessories for historic productions.

Pietro Metastasio - Chart of librettos and the composers who set them by Philippe Gelinaud. (Chronological list.) Fewer than 1% of the surviving operas on Metastasio's librettos have been recorded.

Eighteenth Century Studies Handbook for Metastasio Research - Includes a detailed Metastasio discography.

Pietro Metastasio Website - Texts are being placed online.

Silvio Stampiglia - Another great librettist.

Carlo Goldoni - Another great librettist.

The Scanderbeg Operas of Vivaldi and Francoeur - Vivaldi's Scanderbeg (Florence 1718) is known only from the printed libretto (text by Salvi) and four arias. It was the only Vivaldi opera in which Francesca Cuzzoni appeared (as Doneca).

Lied and Song Texts Page

Andreas Praefacke's Web Pages - Opera in Germany, Austria & Switzerland

Euro-Opera

Libretto List - many dead links

Renascence Editions - An online repository of works printed in English between 1477 and 1799, including The Beggar's Opera.

French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries - A Facsimile Series. To include facsimile scores and librettos of 75 operas, of which 13 have been published thus far.

Francesco Borosini

ODB Opéra

Dance

Corpo Barocco: Sigrid T'Hooft - Early Dance and Staging

Matt's Baroque Dance Pages - with comprehensive Links

Heroes and Harlequins: Dance & Pantomime on the English Stage in the early 18th Century by Barbara Segal (with photographs and video clips) - The Early Dance Lecture 2005

Baroque Dance - Library of Congress article

La Belle Danse - Toronto

Calendar of Early Dance

CD Recordings and Manual for Early Dance - by Dorothée Wortelboer

Consort de Danse Baroque

Danceries Thibaud de Champagne

Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society

Early Arts Guild of Victoria - Includes the Australian Gesture Workshop and the Rippon Lea Renaissance and Baroque Dancers

Early Dance Circle (UK)

L'Eclat des Muses

Compagnie de Danse Baroque L'Eventail

Les fêtes d'Hébé

Hartig.cz

Histoire de la Danse

Institute for Historical Dance Practice (IHDP)

New York Baroque Dance Company Performance Archive - online videos

New York Historical Dance Company

Compagnie Outre Mesure

Renaissance Dance

Seattle Early Dance

Stravaganze - Danses Anciennes

Singing and Perforance Practice

Bassus Generalis - Dedicated to translation and discussion of historical sources about basso continuo and performance practice.

Orfeo - Articles, photos, midi files and much more.

Operas with Farinelli - Many of the operas survive and perhaps eventually will be edited and performed.

Francesco Borosini

Male Altos (and Sopranos)

The Male Soprano Page

Countertenor.org

The Countertenors

Flavio Ferri Benedetti's Links

New Forum for Classical Singers

The Castrati

ChoralNet

Chantez-vous Français? by Olivier Bettens

Excerpts by Sally Sanford and Julianne Baird from A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music.

Inside Early Music: Bernard Sherman's Website

Use of Vibrato in Baroque Vocal Music

"You can never be right all the time". Interview with Nicolas McGegan from Inside Early Music, by Bernard Sherman, pp. 244-254.

Keyboard Instruments

Boston Clavichord Society

British Clavichord Society

British Harpsichord Society

Clavichord Technique and Performance Practice: An Annotated Bibliography by Robert Kelley

ECHO - European Cities of Historical Organs

Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Fédération Francophone des Amis de L'orgue - FFAO

Finchcocks

Fortepiano Information Site

French - English Harpsichord Lexicon

French Harpsichords - Annotated List of 17th & 18th Century instruments

Gottfried Silbermann: Master organ-builder of the German baroque

Grant O'Brien Early Keyboard Instruments

Hendrik Bouman - The Classical Muse

Het Orgel Links - Very comprehensive organ links, updated daily.

History of the PianoForte

Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society

Nivers, L'Art d'Accompagner sur la Basse Continue pour l'Orgue et le Clavecin (1689)(pdf). Bi-lingual - translated into English by Robert Kelley.

Organs of Arp Schnitger (1648-1719)

Orgelnieuws.nl

Richard Thomas John's Early Keyboard Links

San Diego Harpsichord Society

Claviers Baroques Harpsichord Expert

Jack Peters Harpsichords

William Jurgenson Harpsichords

Paul Y. Irvin Harpsichords

David Werbeloff Harpsichords - I heard a superb recital by Byron Schenkman on a Werbeloff Trasuntino at the Frick Collection.

John Sankey - Harpsichordist to the Internet

Beunk & Wennick Early Pianos

Swensen's Piano & Fortepianos

Carey Beebe Harpsichords Australia - see his "Clavichord on the Nullabor"

Southeast Historical Keyboard Society

Understanding Temperaments

Keyboard temperament analyzer / calculator by Bradley Lehman

Johann Sebastian Bach's Tuning by Bradley Lehman

Nigel Taylor's Tuning Page

Interview with Christopher Stembridge, who discusses chromatic instruments.

Korg MasterTune MT-1200 Electronic Tuner - The best electronic tuner for historic temperaments, allowing the user to program custom temperaments. Pitch range of a=390-470. Unfortunately, out of production since 2000, but MT-1200s occasionally are sold on eBay. Tips: (1) Use your ears -- don't look at the needle! (2) Tune no more than one octave from the Korg -- the octaves it generates are not in tune!

Paper by Paul Poletti on historical temperaments, with a guide to alternative programming for the Korg MT-1200 tuner. (pdf)

Absynth 2 software synthesizer -- extremely flexible tuner for setting and demonstrating historical temperaments. Favorably reviewed by Paul Poletti on the hpschd-l.

Other Products I Recommend

Other Instruments

American Musical Instrument Society

American Recorder Society

The Baroque Bassoon Page - includes a discography

Baroque Arias with Obligato Bassoon

Baroque String Playing for ingenious learners - information about a book by Judy Tarling published by Corda Music Publications (2001).

A Brief History of the Lute by David Van Edwards, Luthier.

Chitarrone, Theorbo and Archlute. By Robert Spencer. Early Music 4(4) (1976).

CIMCIM: Technical Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public Collections of the World

Daniel Larson - String instrument builder whose website includes pages on tying lute frets, tying viol frets, and tying tail gut.

Société Française de Luth - French Lute Society

La flûte traversière en Europe au XVIème et XVIIème Siécles. By Philippe Allain-Dupré.

FluteHistory.com

Lost and/or Stolen Flutes

Playing in Tune on a Baroque Flute. By Catherine Folkers. Traverso 10 (1): 1-3 (1998).

Interesting message by flute builder Rod Cameron to the earlyflute list in response to a question about flute materials. [Update replying to responsive messages.]

The Galpin Society for the Study of Musical Instruments

GreatBassViol.com

Historic Brass Society

Historical Harp Society

HurdyGurdy.com

International Double Reed Society

The Lute Page

The Lute Society (UK)

The Lute Society of America

Lyra Viol's Alive

A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments

Medieval and Renaissance Instruments

The Monteverdi Violins

La Musette Baroque

Musette de cour

Natural Trumpet Discography by Dave Baum

Real Gut Strings by George Stoppani

Recorder Home Page (Australia)

The Recorder Player's Page

Society of Recorder Players

Société Française de Viole

Theorbo.com by Lynda Sayce

Viola d'amore

Viola d'amore Society of America

Viola da Braccio - Website of baroque violinist and instrument builder Dmitry Badiarov, who has built violoncellos da spalla for himself, Sigiswald Kuijken, and Ryo Terakado.

The Viola da Gamba - with comprehensive discography and Jonathan Dunford's liner notes.

Viola da Gamba Bibliography

Viola da Gamba Foundation of the Netherlands - Stichting GAMBA

Federation of Viola da Gamba Societies

Viola da Gamba Society

Viola da Gamba Society of America

Zic Trad - Le Jeu sur les Musiques Traditionnelles

Periodicals

Concerto - Das Magazin für Alte Musik

Continuo - Now defunct, but December 1996 to December 1998 issues remain online and can be accessed through this Site Search.

The Double Reed - articles online in pdf

Early Keyboard Journal

Early Music [Index compiled by Charles Stroom]

Early Music Review - The essential monthly newsletter by Clifford Bartlett & King's Music.

Early Music Today

Eighteenth Century Music (Cambridge University Press)

Embellishments - Newsletter of A-R Editions

Fanfare Magazine

FoMRHI - Fellowship of Makers & Researchers of Historical Instruments Quarterly [Index compiled by Charles Stroom]

Galpin Society Journal Index compiled by Charles Stroom

Goldberg Magazine

Gramophone [The Joyce Hatto Hoax - promoted by Gramophone and blown up by bloggers.]

Harpsichord & Fortepiano

Het Orgel - English & Dutch, article summaries online.

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music - all issues available online

Muse Baroque

Resonance (pdf) - Newsletter of the Eastman Organ Department

La Revue de Musicologie

Traverso

Sheet Music (See Composers for additional online sheet music)

Blackwell's Music Shop, Oxford

Cantata Editions

Carus-Verlag Stuttgart

Edition Musica Poetica

Editions Musicales Chanvrelin - organ music

Cornetto-Verlag

Dr. Hans Schneider Verlag GmbH

Arnoldo Forni Editore

Fuzeau Facsimiles

Hapsburger Verlag

Edition HH

Heugel - Le Pupitre (Alphonse Leduc)

Jacks, Pipes and Hammers

King's Music

Laaber-Verlag

Lexnews - New editions of French early music

Lionel Sawkins

Minkoff Facsimiles

Music Publishers - Links by the Library of the Indiana U. School of Music

Edition Musiklandschaften - Scores edited by Johannes Pausch, including operas and oratorios by Mattheson, Telemann and Gasparini.

Musique ancienne de Clavier

Éditions de L'Oiseau-Lyre

Editions Orphée - lute and guitar music publisher

Studio per Edizioni Scelte (SPES)

Éditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles

Werner Icking Music Archives - Free Sheet Music

Early Music Centers and Societies

Boston Early Music News - Online Calendar

Constellation Center - Forthcoming 4-theater complex at Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, including a 450-seat, baroque opera theater with sliding scenery (Odeon) & a 1,000-seat theater with a large tracker organ after the Hildebrandt organ in Naumburg (Great Hall).

Early Music America

Early MusiChicago

Early Music Colorado

Early Music News (UK)

FEVIS: Fédération des Ensembles Vocaux et Instrumentaux Spécilisés - Features web pages for the members.

Houston Early Music

International Musicological Society

MusicSources Center for Historically Informed Performance - Berkeley, CA

National Centre for Early Music - York

National Early Music Association UK - Publishers of the annual Early Music Yearbook

Netzwerk für Alte Musik

Associazione culturale Orfeo nella rete

Centre de Musique Médiévale de Paris

Princeton Early Keyboard Center

renaissancemusik.dk

San Francisco Early Music Society

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

Society for 17th Century Music [Conference Abstracts]

Society for 18th Century Music

Southern California Early Music Society

Tesori Musicali Toscani

Toronto Early Music Centre

Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles

Westfield Center - Seattle

[See The PIPE List for a comprehensive directory of early music groups with contact details.]

Early Music Blogs

Branle de Champaigne

Dmitry Badiarov Baroque Violin Blog

Early Music Blog by Niklas Saers

The Early Music Blog (Italian language)

The Early Music Blog (Excerpts from Goldberg Magazine)

Ionarts - Arts blog with some early music coverage.

Lutes, Viols and Other Ancient Instruments

Musikalische Opfer

New York Baroque Dance Company Blog

Shaun Ng - viol in Western Australia

Oates for Tanger - Alan Cowderoy

OperaBlog

Vespers 1610, An Early Music Blog by Craig Zeichner

Other Interesting Websites

Classical.net Early Music files and links

La Folia

Musical Borrowing: An annotated bibliography. Indiana U.

Musicologie.org - Good source for references.

SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music Page

TV Turnoff Network

Humor

Review of "An English Girlye Mass" by the Madstone Maydens. David Vernier.

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