Early Music Sources
The aim of Early Music Source is to simplify the access to the vast amount of sources dealing with early music. It contains bibliographical lists in the different fields of early music. Our YouTube videos discuss interesting subjects related to early music.
How Josquin composed his five- and six-voice chansons
How medieval music sounded in the 18th century?!
Stealing - Borrowing - Composing: Thomas Weelkes (1597)
Easter special: Christ lag in Todesbanden and the Lutheran Chorale
The Most French Chord
Historical translations of vocal music around 1600
Joseph Riepel and the Secrets of Galant Melody
Composing a four-part motet from scratch!
Seven misconceptions about nuns and music (1500-1700)
Score analysis #5 - William Byrd / Hugh Ashton's ground [Tregian’s ground]
The Magic Table That Lets You Compose Canons Over A Cantus Firmus (1596)
Period composition (and the truth about Albinoni’s adagio)
Why do we need scholarly editions of music?
A Christmas special: Gaudete! And what happened to it in the 20th century
Why bad performances are bad (according to someone in 1594) / Bottrigari: Il Desiderio
Conducting in the 16th-18th centuries
Dario Castello: Sonata Prima! (1629)
The fascinating counterpoint of Lamentation letters
Penna: The Fundaments of Playing Upon a Part (1672) [PIE vol. 5]
Tutorial: intabulating vocal music into keyboard notation
The Castrati: A dark corner in music history
The tragically short career of Monteverdi’s star soprano Caterina Martinelli
Orfeo, Hindemith and the Early Music Revival
Cantare super librum
How we realized Monteverdi’s O quam pulchra es
Early Music Sources special opening themes: 2015-2022
The Neapolitan Chord
Bach’s choir: Size matters??
How to lose your music teaching job in one year: the trial of Pietro Pontio 1566
Score analysis #4 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck / Mein junges Leben hat ein End