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Recorded Music

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Early & Renaissance Guitar Music

Sheet Music

The Dancing Master, 1651-1728:
An Illustrated Compendium By Robert M. Keller

Kunstderfuge Music
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    Henry VIII
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Internet Score Exchange Library

Richard Robinson's Tune Book Search

Steve Hendrick's music collection
see also http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Music/search.cgi

Playford (includes dance steps)

Spielleut.de - Facs Piae Cantiones

The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft

Werner Icking Music Archive
Other free sheet music archives

Petrucci Music Library

Digital Sound Files

ABC Navigator

ABC tune converter

Dan's Classical Music Page

Early Music Societies, Festivals, Events

Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools

Chester Watch Parade

Helsinki Early Music Society

Leicester Early Music Festival

West Gallery Music Association

The National Centre For Early Music

Reference

Johan Ambrosius Bach (father of JSB)

Bassetlaw Museum (see silver collection)

Bagpipes

Blackletter Ballads

The Book of Days

British History on-line

The Broadside Ballads Website

Music of William Byrd

The Cantigas de Santa Maria

Catches & Glees

Dolmetsch Music Dictionary

Early English Music

English Ballad Archive

Exeter City Waits' Chains

www.familysearch.org/

Female Musicians in the 1500s

La Folia - the most lasting and famous tune in western music

Medieval English urban history

The Malone Society

Municipal Corporations Act 1835 - The Peel Web
Municipal Corporations Act 1835 - Wikipedia

R.E.E.D.  Records of Early English Drama

REED articles for downloading

Renascence Editions

SECULAR MUSICIANS IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. Richard Rastal's doctoral thesis now available online.

John Wilson, City of London Wait (1595 - 1674)

Waite Genealogy

Castlebar Waits

Musicians

List of Waites Bands

Capella-de-la-Torre

1685

Costume Bands

De Blauwe Schuyt

Elizabeth Gutteridge, Composer

Lincoln Renaissance Band

Stanhoppe's Musick

Warwickshire Youth Waits

Wyldes Noyse

Douglas Yeo Trombone Web Site

Historic Instruments

Iberian traditional instruments

Medieval & Renaissance Instruments

The Ripon Wakeman's Horn

Winchester Moot Horn

contrabass.com's shawm page

Serpent Website

The Slide Trumpet

Trombone Society article - The Trombone Before 1800

Miscellaneous

Amateur Orchestras (Online Directory)
Geoff is a charming fellow who will include Waites Bands or other early musical groups in his online directory, linking to the groups own website - and it's FREE.

Clio & Euterpe (archive of tunes & songs)

Dicey & Marshall catalogue

York Mystery Plays

Goldberg: The early music and baroque music portal