Music & Musicians

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Information

The Lully Collection

The University of North Texas' site contains PDF scans of original editions, as well as information about Lully's operas.

Early Music FAQ

Includes links to early music performers, record-labels, publishers, instrument makers...

The Baroque Suite

Article by Stephen Kenyon about movements that make up the baroque suite.  Intended for guitarists, but much of it is instrument-independent.

Les danses des Suites Instrumentales

List of dance types with descriptions, some of which are more relevant to different periods.  (Français)

Rhythm in Baroque music

Article covering rhythmic complexities, mainly in dance music.  [I'm not sure I'd agree with all the generalisations made, but then, it depends on what period/country you're looking at.]

Passacaglia and Ciaccona

Article by Alexander Silbiger describing his views on the differences between a passacaglia and a chaconne.  From the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.

Baroque Dance and the Bach Cello Suites

Excellent article by a cellist playing the Bach suites for dancer Anna Mansbridge.

Music and Theater in 17th-Century France

By John Powell, Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Essays and music editions.  [I'm having trouble with the Java used on this website, but I thought I'd add the link anyway, because there appears to be good content in there.]

A Survey of the Loure Through Definitions, Music, and Choreographies

By Julie Andrijeski, part of the work towards her doctorate.  [Don't be put off reading this "thesis" thinking it might be hard going – it's highly readable, and since the author is both a musician and a dancer, she knows what she's talking about.  If you already know basically what a loure is then it's unlikely to revolutionise your understanding of the form, but it certainly introduced me to lots of new sources, and sharpened up my ideas a bit.]

Musicians

The PIPE List

Huge list of groups and people performing "early music", plus some links on period performance.

Thomas Berghan

Lutenist who accompanies dancers Gloria Giordano, Deda Cristina Colonna and Language of the Gods.  Last time I checked, his site included a recording of the Gatti gigue for Gigue pour une femme in the large 1704 collection, and the Lully Chaconne d'Arlequin to which there are two extant choreographies, as well as several other dance pieces.

Les Idées Heureuses

Music group based in Montréal, who play for dancers, including Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière and Edgar Tumak, and L'Eventail.  (English/Français)

Chatham Baroque

Chamber group who have collaborated with dancers in the past.

The Broadside Band

Lead by Jeremy Barlow.  Plays on tapes and CDs for Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society.

Passacaglia

Chamber group who have performed with Consort de Danse Baroque.

Welsh Baroque Orchestra

Have given concerts with dancing from Consort de Danse Baroque.  (English/Cymraeg)

Isidoro Roitman

Lutenist and baroque guitarist who has worked with renaissance and baroque dancers.

Ensemble Dreiklang Berlin

Recorder trio who have collaborated on a CD of dance music including several notated baroque dances.  (Deutsch/English)