Acadia Early Music Resources

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• Facsimiles of woodcuts from: The Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) [Michelle Muggridge, from an original 1493 printing of The Nuremberg Chronicle in the Acadia University Special Collections.]
• Facsimile of Francesca Caccini, Il primo libro delle musiche (Florence, 1618) [Sarah Lennerton]
• Facsimiles of pages from: Charles Burney, A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (London, 1776–1789), Vol. IV. [Marlene Murtonen, from an original of Burney's History in the collection of Gordon J. Callon.]
• Facsimiles of Excerpt from: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Notes of A Pianist (London, 1881) [Michelle E. Keddy]
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• Facsimile of all three volumes of Brunetes ou petits airs tendres avec les doubles et la basse-continue; mélées de chansons a danser..., Tome premier (Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1703), ...Tome second (Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1704), [&] ...Tome troisiéme (Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1711). [Alan Cowderoy & Un Doulx Regard]
• Facsimile of [Benigne de Bacilly,] Les Airs Spirituels de M ^r. de Bacilly... [2 vols.] (Paris: G. de Luine..., 1688). [Alan Cowderoy & Un Doulx Regard]
• Facsimile of Tendresses Bacchiques ou Duo et Trio melez de petits airs, tendres et à boire, des meilleurs auteurs...Reciüeillies, & mises en ordre par Christophe Ballard... (Paris: [Christophe Ballard], 1712). [Alan Cowderoy & Un Doulx Regard]

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• Download more complete chronologies, Renaissance & Baroque [104Kb] (text version—MS Word format).

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• Sixteenth-Century [Renaissance vocal] Counterpoint | Course Description [modal counterpoint]
• Eighteenth-Century Baroque Counterpoint | Course Description [tonal counterpoint]
• Online Exercises [These excercises are available online in Sibelius, PDF, GIF, and EPS formats. Available on request are versions in Score and MuseScore formats. Students who do not have Sibelius, Score, or Finale software will find the free software MuseScore suitable for these exercises or may use the online WWW application Noteflight.]
• Online Scores for Study and Analysis
• Tutorials in Early Music Editing and Music History Research Methods:   Special Studies in Music History | Course Description

• Individual Instruments

• Individual Composers, A–E
• Individual Composers, F–M
• Individual Composers, N–Z
• Renaissance & Baroque Music Chronology: Composers

• Online Music Scores (to Download) [links to sites]
• Collections, Early Music
• Facsimiles
• Iconographic Sources

• Art History (General)
• Renaissance and Baroque Art (to 1800)

Score Software Resources

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  WINSCORE (Score 5) [observations on new features by Stephen Gibson, New Notations London]  

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• README file for Score Preview (SCORPREV 3.11SP): A Viewer for Score Music Files (Date: 1-12-95)

• Making Font Point Sizes in Score Match Point Sizes of all other DTP Programs [Tom Brodhead]
• PSC files, FONTCONV and SCORE character width [Jan de Kloe]
• Anti-Virus Software & Score version 4 [Leland Smith]
• Regarding Score Printing [Leland Smith]
• Score response slowing [Anthony Maydwell]
• Tips for using Score version 4 with Windows XP
• Installation | Mouse | Display (Screen) | Printing from DOS

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