(US) New Issue of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music is Now Available On-Line

News 2010 A new issue of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music is now available online.

Published: Feb 08, 2010 - 10:54 PM
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(NL) The Recorder Foundation Celebrates This Year its 25th Anniversary!

News 2010

The Foundation was established in 1985 as a non-profit organization with the motto “to stimulate and promote the Recorder's repertoire in every possible field”. The first solid step was taken by its founder, Walter van Hauwe, by creating the Catalogue of Contemporary Blockflute Music (CCBM), a catalogue devoted to original recorder music written after 1900.

By the year 1988, Mr. van Hauwe had about 400 titles in his archive, while he estimated another 300 works still to be discovered.

Now, 25 years later, more than 5000 titles can be found in the Catalogue of Contemporary Blockflute Music (CCBM), presumably 95% of the world-wide total.

Published: Feb 07, 2010 - 04:06 PM
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(FR) Muse Baroque online magazine -- February 2010 Edition

News 2010 Visit the Muse Baroque website to read the latest edition of their monthly periodical. The February edition includes:

Published: Feb 07, 2010 - 03:55 PM
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(FR) 10th International Academy of Ancient Music (10ème Académie Internationale de Musique Ancienne) (Apr. 17-24, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010

Brillamment baroque 2010  FESTIVAL

Instruction for early music enthusiasts and modern instrumentalists and singers with an interest in Baroque and Renaissance music. All baroque intruments welcome !

Published: Feb 07, 2010 - 03:36 PM
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(US) "Extreme Early Instruments" (Ensemble De Organographia and the ORB Sackbutts) (Feb. 19, 2010)

Early Music Concerts 2010
Ensemble De Organographia and the ORB Sackbutts will perform "Extreme Early Instruments" - The highest, lowest, softest, loudest and definitely the weirdest renaissance instruments including racketts (short double reed instruments where the bore curls over itself 9 times), several sizes of recorder (including bass and the 4 foot great bass), schreierpfeiffen ("screaming pipes" - loud capped double reed instruments designed for outdoor use), all sizes of sackbutts (forerunner of the trombone: alto, tenor, bass, and the 7 foot long contrabass), crumhorns (capped reed instruments shaped like the letter J), tartold (relative of the rackett shaped like a dragon concealing 8 feet of brass tubing), serpent (S-shaped leather covered forerunner of the tuba), curtal (one-piece forerunner of the bassoon: alto and bass), violin, viola, viola da gamba (6 string fretted bowed instrument), gemshorn (recorder-like instrument made from a cowhorn) and voice.  Featuring the music of Isaac, Lassus, Canale, Susato, Playford, Scandello and others.

Published: Feb 07, 2010 - 01:42 PM
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(DE) Ramée Label's latest realease: "Harmoniae Sacrae - 17th-century German Sacred Cantatas "

Discography

Hana Blazikova, soprano
Peter Kooij, bass
L'Armonia Sonora
Mieneke van der Velden, direction and viola da gamba
(Cat.-No. RAM 0905)

The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) was the stage for bloody clashes, joined in the name of religion, attended by their cortege of atrocities, famines and epidemics, resulting not only in destruction, but also, above all, a deep demoralisation. What faith could reside in Man, when his spirit could only hope to find rest in the afterlife?

Published: Feb 07, 2010 - 01:31 PM
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(DE) Workshop Medieval Music at Castle Burg Fürsteneck (Oct. 29-31, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010

Academy Burg Fürsteneck in Germany offers a workshop “Resonances of Medieval Music” October, 29 to 31, 2010. This year, the subect is the “Cyprus codex”.

Published: Feb 04, 2010 - 06:20 AM
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(US) Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America (March 2, 2010 deadline)

Workshops/Festivals 2010

An NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers

This five-week institute will be directed by Claire Sponsler, Professor of English at the University of Iowa, and hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library.  This institute offers a comparative study of ritual and ceremony across related cultures from 1300 to 1700.  It builds on anthropological theories of the ubiquitous role of ritual and ceremony and the impact of that work in performance studies.  Testing assumptions about influence and exchange among national traditions and local contexts, it seeks a new understanding of the processes and effects of cultural hybridity and assimilation.

Published: Feb 03, 2010 - 06:16 AM
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(UK) Hurdy-gurdy and Bagpipe Workshops and Concert in Ramsgate (Kent) (March 20, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010

On Saturday 20th March, in Ramsgate, Kent (England), there will be a day of hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe workshops, with a concert in the evening. Workshops during the day on gurdy maintenance and playing, bagpipe playing and Middle Eastern percussion will be run by Claire Dugue, Sean Jones, Steve Tyler, Tim Garside and Katy Marchant.

Published: Feb 03, 2010 - 05:54 AM
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(US) Tune in to the Recorder VI -- Music of Spain and the New World (March 6, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010

Published: Feb 01, 2010 - 02:18 AM
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(US) Desert Pipes 50th Anniversary Event (March 13, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010

Come join us to hear, play, and enjoy the recorder!
When: Saturday afternoon, March 13, 2010, 1:30 - 4:30 pm
Where: Orangewood Presbyterian Church, Page Hall, 7321 N. 10th St., Phoenix

Please join the Desert Pipes for a celebration of our first half-century!

Published: Feb 01, 2010 - 01:55 AM
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(US) Bach's Organ World -- Tour of Bach’s Organ World to Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin and more, (July 19-30, 2010)

News 2010
Join Concept Tours and world-renowned Bach organ scholars Quentin and Mary Murrell Faulkner on a tour of Bach's Organ World in Germany during summer 2010. You'll also see the magnificent attractions of the "new" East Germany.

Published: Jan 30, 2010 - 10:25 PM
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(US) "The Lute in Italy from Abondante to Zamboni" Lute Society of America (June 27-July 3, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010
Join in the fun at the 2010 edition of Lute Society of America’s Summer Seminar! This year, the seminar will explore the lute in Italy from the 15th through 18th centuries. (Okay, there will be lots of other lute music too!) The event will feature a distinguished faculty of lute performers, musicological specialists, and vocal coaches.

Published: Jan 30, 2010 - 09:48 PM
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(DE) 10th Stage for Early Music and Historical Dance at Castle BURG FÜRSTENECK (March 12-14, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010

Date is: 12 to 14 March 2010 at academy BURG FÜRSTENECK in the centre of Germany, starting at 6:30 PM and ending at 1:00 PM.

We would like to call you attention to our workshops of the “10th Stage for Early Music and Historical Dance at Castle BURG FÜRSTENECK” with teacher of the international well known “Ensemble Oni Wytars” and their friends. There is a workshop for French baroque music for hurdy gurdy included, directed by Riccardo Delfino.

Published: Jan 30, 2010 - 08:52 PM
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(FR) Alan Cowderoy's "Summer Schools for Baroque and Renaissance Flautists : 2010" list

Workshops/Festivals 2010 Recently published, a list of summer schools for Baroque and Renaissance Flautists for 2010. The list is maintained by Alan Cowderoy (Un Doulx Regard Ensemble).

Published: Jan 30, 2010 - 05:11 PM
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(DE) Two New Titles Published by TREE EDITION for Renaissance Lute

Books/Manuscript Francescho Bianchini: Tabulature de Lutz en diverses formes... Facimile of the second part of a publication, printed by Jacques Modern, Lyon, 1549

Fancies, chansons and dances by different authors, intabulated for Ren. Lute in Italian tablature. 31 folii / Italian tablature / Renaissance tuning . ..

Published: Jan 30, 2010 - 04:54 PM
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(US) Rod Cameron's Photo Gallery Delights

News 2010 Rod Cameron’s reputation as a wonderful flute maker is exemplified by his flute photo gallery. 

Published: Jan 25, 2010 - 07:16 PM
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(UK) "Reminiscences of the Opera" -- new publication from DanceBooks.co.uk

Books/Manuscript

“Author: Lumley, Benjamin

From 1842 to 1853 and again from 1856 to 1858, Benjamin Lumley (1811-1875) was manager of Her Majesty's Theatre in London, the great nineteenth-century English home of romantic ballet and Italian opera.

Published: Jan 23, 2010 - 11:30 AM
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(US) Baroque Band presents The Grand Tour - An Englishman's Education! (March 3, 6, 12, 2010)

Early Music Concerts 2010 Take a Grand Tour through Europe's finest capital cities as Baroque Band revel in the musical treats of the 18th century traveller. Destinations include Paris, Venice, Rome and Amsterdam, before returning to London for a grand finale.

Published: Jan 20, 2010 - 04:16 PM
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(US) Collection of Italian Opera Libretti Now Accessible at Harry Ransom Center

Books/Manuscript “AUSTIN, Texas — A major collection of Italian opera libretti is now accessible through an online database at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.

The collection of 3,421 items was donated in 1969 by New York rare book dealer Hans P. Kraus. The collection consists primarily of texts of Italian operas but also includes Italian cantatas, serenatas, oratorios, dialogues and Passions.

Published: Jan 18, 2010 - 05:40 PM
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(DE) Tree Edition newly published: "PIERRE ATTAINGNANT: 12 Duets for Renaissance Lutes" edited by Anton Hoeger

Books/Manuscript

12 chanson intavolations for 2 equally tuned Renaissance lutes from: Vingt et cinq chansons musicales..., 1530

Published: Jan 18, 2010 - 04:46 PM
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(DE) Ramée Label's latest realease: "Recorders greate and smale" by Mezzaluna

Discography

 Music for the English Court Recorder Consort played by Mezzaluna (Renaissance recorders). 

Although the recorder is probably known primarily as a baroque instrument amongst the general public, it is rather the 16^th century, which should actually be considered the golden age of its history. At that time, single recorders were certainly used in mixed ensembles of instruments, but from numerous sources there is clear evidence, that it was especially the homogeneous recorder consort, or "a whoall noyse of recorders", as some English sources would call it, which enjoyed an unprecedented popularity with both amateurs and professionals. The English Court however, constitutes a special case, since it is the only known establishment, where over a period of no less than ninety years, a group of specialized instrumentalists was officially enrolled as recorder players and members of a standing recorder consort: the Royal Recorders.

Published: Jan 18, 2010 - 04:29 PM
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(US) The Children of Orpheus: How Composers Receive Ancient Texts (Call for papers) (Jan. 26, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010 Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
“The Children of Orpheus: How Composers Receive Ancient Texts”

Deadline: 26 JAN 2010!

The American Philological Association's Outreach Panel for the 2011 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, January 6-9, 2011, invites papers that discuss texts set to music from 1400 to the present that are based on, or influenced by, ancient Greek or Latin literature, and analyze how their creators engaged  with these texts through direct setting, adaptation, translation, or alteration. Subjects might include, but are not limited to,song-cycles, operas, oratorios, cantatas, hymns, film scores, or popular music.

Published: Jan 16, 2010 - 05:01 PM
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(BE) 19th-Century Brass Instrument Laboratory (April 16-18, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010 Because of its technological developments, the 19th century can be called revolutionary for brass players, with innovations in instrument building taking on never-before-seen proportions.

During this new laboratory, the instructors will acquaint (pre) professional musicians with particular playing techniques, instruments and the 19th-century repertoire including some lesser-known works. You’ll play the instruments coached by the following members of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées: Alain De Rudder, Luc Bergé, Wim Becu and Marc Girardot. A19th-century instrument can be borrowed for the duration of the lab.

Works by Jean François Victor Bellon, Antoine Simon, Félicien-César David, … will be performed.

Published: Jan 11, 2010 - 06:11 AM
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(BE) International Masterclass Wim Becu, Director - Polyhymnia Caduceatrix & Panegyrica by Michael Praetorius (Nov. 1-7, 2010)

Workshops/Festivals 2010 Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) is best known for his treatise Syntagma Musicum. Yet he was also an especially prolific composer. Praetorius’s repertoire deserves wider recognition, not only because of its polychoral writing and colourful instrumentation, but also for its expressive content.

Published: Jan 11, 2010 - 06:06 AM
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