Links
Instruments, Makers and Retailers
Richard Blake Wood Turner, Instrument Maker & Musician
The Early Music Shop – Sponsors of The Waits Website
Paul Baker (gitterns, early guitars, orpharions, hurdy-gurdies, etc.)
Terry Mann (medieval recorders, tabor
pipes)
Sam Goble (cornetti, lysarden,
serpents, shawms and schalmei)
Internet Shopping
Our Fundraising page (coming soon) tells you how you can raise money for the International Guild of Town Pipers whilst shopping online.
Recorded Music
Early & Renaissance Guitar Music
Sheet Music
Kunstderfuge Music
Thomas Ravenscroft
Henry VIII
More Renaissance Music
Internet Score Exchange Library
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
Other free sheet music archives
Digital Sound Files
Early Music Societies, Festivals, Events
Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools
Leicester Early Music Festival
West Gallery Music Association
The National Centre For Early Music
National Early Music Association
Reference
Secular Musicians in Late Medieval England
Richard Rastall’s doctoral thesis.
Bassetlaw Museum (see silver collection)
Cambridge Waits – Jesus College Archives
Early English Music
(exlibris.org authorisation required)
Medieval English urban history
Municipal Corporations Act 1835 – The Peel Web
Municipal Corporations Act 1835 – Wikipedia
R.E.E.D. Records of Early English Drama
Shawms – Traditional and Historical Reed Instruments (Facebook Group)
Music in the Daily Life of Vermeer: The Shawm.
Musicians
Elizabeth Gutteridge, Composer
Historic Instruments
Iberian traditional instruments
Medieval & Renaissance Instruments
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
(tunes & songs by Henry Roberts, 1758)