HIT:Medieval and Renaissance Dance /Musical Instruments

[the browns <vbpaula@EROLS.COM>]

> From:    the browns <vbpaula@EROLS.COM>RE:Medieval and Renaissance Dance/Musical 
>Instruments
> Thank you every one!It may be a while before I check out all this wealth. As I 
>clean up a site I will add it to my library home page.
http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/htm/programs/departments/library/elib.htm
 Take a look at this:

From:
        SusanR50@aol.com

Hi Paula,
  Have you seen the Eyewitness book on Musical Instruments
and MS Musical Instruments (cdrom). The latter has information and
illustrations, some audio as well as how the instruments are used in
ensembles.

Paula,

        I may be able to help you in an unique way.  I have some good
friends who are very knowledgeable about this subject.   My husband has
performed in a madrigal group for over 20 years.  The group is led by
one of our district's elementary/intermediate level talented and gifted
teachers (she is extraordinary).   In addition to singing, my husband
plays the recorder in their recorder group.  One of the women in the
group (a retired teacher) goes to Medieval and Renaissance musical
instruments workshops.  She is learning to play the lute.  The husband
of the group's leader is trying to construct crumhorns (sp?).  The lute
lady has also gone to workshops on period dancing  and last winter the
group added dancing to their repitore.  (I am involved with that section
of the group.)

        They have been accumulating information for over twenty years.
There is limited information available (on some subjects just bits &
peices)... especially at the 5th & 6th grade level.  Perhaps we could do
some kind of e-mail interviews.  I will be happy to ask the people I
mentioned if they are willing to do this.  Normally, I am sure that they
would say yes.  The only reason that they would not be able to do it
just now is that this is a VERY busy season.  They have rehersals all
week for a major show next weekend and a number of performances the
following week.  If you can wait a week or two and are interested, let
me know.

        In the meantime, here are some web sites:

    Costumes:
              http://www.renfair.com/guide.htm
               http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html

    Music & Dance:

              For some wonderful links to Medieval and Renaissance music
sites
                        visit the Early Music Page via Classical Net.
                        http://www.classical.net/music/links/emusic.html

              To acquire your own MIDI samples from English Renaissance
                        composers (among many others) visit the
Classical MIDI
                        Archives. You will find samples here from Byrd,
Campion,
                        Dowland, Morley and many others. The emphasis is
on the
                        Classical period, but there are many early music
samples here also.
                         http://www.prs.net/midi.html

                  Wondering about all those odd Renaissance instruments?
Can't
                        take another breath until you find out what a
shawm, a tabor, a
                        bass crumhorn sounds like? Then you must visit
the Renaissance
                        Consort Home Page.
                        http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/cons1/

               Greg Lindahl's Music and Dance Page, with links to other
great
                        pages from the SCA.

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/music_and_dance.html

                 Also from Greg, The Pre-1600 English Ballads Page.
                        http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ballads.html

                 The Society for Creative Anachronism's Minstrel Page.
                        http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/minstrel.html


                 Looking for some gems of Renaissance music? Try the
Camerata
                        Hungarica. There are some enormous sound files
here.

http://www.sztaki.hu/providers/camerata/camerata.hungarica.html


        Hope some of this helps and be sure and e-mail me, if you would
like to try e-mail questions with my friends.

--
Sincerely,
Deb Logan
Librarian/Media Specialist Taft Middle School
Marion, OH
KidsConnect Volunteer
jd3logan@bright.net


            gails@flash.net
Organization:
            Edison Regional Gifted Center


http://www.execpc.com/~clisto/clisto.html

The above link is to a HUGE Medieval and Renaissance site,  composed
mostly of links to other places, that might include what you are looking
for.  Much of the stuff is from the Renaissance Faire circuit, but
Clisto really is quite a history buff, and many of his links are also to
actual Renaissance history information.  The first page will take a LONG
time to load, but then you can bookmark the individual chapters of
interest and then just go to them directly/
--

        Edith Fuller <efuller@teleport.com>


One title I've used is The Oxford junior companion to music, by Percy
A Scholes. London, OUP, orig publ 1954.  My copy was reprinted in 1977.
In 1 vol. of435 pages.

I've bought at least two copies used, and I assume it is OP now.

           mccree1@juno.com (Lynn B. McCree)

References:
        1
As a supplementary source you might want to use Microsoft's Musical
Instruments cd-rom.  You can pick the part of the world you want and
then
many of the instruments are medieval. It plays music appropriate to the
selection..  We love it.


Lynn McCree, Librarian


Paula, this is an excellent resource, out of Harvard. Unfortunately, you
will need to wade through it yourself to find the right sites before you
turn it over to your students. Very large database.
 Internet Resources for Music Scholars
Maintained by the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
http://www.rism.harvard.edu/MusicLibrary/InternetResources.html

A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
Bagpipe   Bladder Pipe
Cornamuse
Crumhorn  Dulcian    Dulcimer
Gamba     Gemshorn    Harp
Harpsichord           Hirtenschalmei
Hurdy-Gurdy
Korholt   Lizard      Lute
Mute Cornett          Organetto
Percussion            Pipe and Tabor
Psaltery  Rackett     Rauschpfeife
Rebec     Recorder    Sacbut
Schalmei  Serpent     Shawm
Shofar    Transverse Flute
Viol
Zink
http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html
--
Judith Stanton  |  gstanton@earthlink.net
ELMT graduate program / GSU / Atlanta, GA

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