Resources for SCA Period Materials
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***ALL LINKS CHECKED & UPDATED 3/19/2023**
In the SCA 'In Period' typically refers to Corpora, time periods set by SCA, inc - and using material documentable between the Dark Ages, Medieval, and Renaissance Eras (No set early era date, Apx 600AD - 1603AD, or the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I)
Other online source material of period literature and poetry available can be found under E-Books in the Handouts and Other Resource Section on this Website
Image: Cantigas de Santa Maria - from Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cantigas_Santa_Maria.jpg
Documenting Original Bardic Pieces: The Quest for the Elusive Point by Adelaide de Beaumont (Lisa Theriot)
http://www.ravenboymusic.com/Articles/documentoriginal.htm
Period Songs: Where to Find Them, How to Write Them by Isolde de Lengadoc
http://welltemperedharpy.blogspot.com/2010/03/period-songs-where-to-find-them-how-to.html
Documentation is Not An Obituary by Master Terafan Greydragon - Developed and presented based on an original class by Master Dafydd ap Gwystl
http://www.greydragon.org/library/docisnotobit.html
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International Phonetic Alphabet: A way for singers and speakers to write many languages out with consistent phonetic marking
http://www.ipasource.com/ - a source of texts already transcribed to IPA
(*Webmistress note: There are some Renaissance composers in their list - admittedly, it may potentially put a slightly 'modern Latin' accent - but I still think it's a great place to start when singing in a non-familiar language. I have used it for Latin, Italian, German, French, and Russian.)
Music Theory Fundamentals http://tobyrush.com/theorypages/index.html
Spreadsheet of Tom Hudson: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsR3A2n6HnG9dExBWG5mdHk5X2RmaGpNU1F3X05fVXc#gid=0
Breaks instruments, dance forms, song forms, and composers down by year and by language/country
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English Broadside Ballad Archive, University of California (UCSB) : http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/page/collections
EBBA Search Page: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/
16th century broadside ballads: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ Fascimillies and transcriptions
The Music of the Sixteenth Century Broadside Ballad: This page contains links to printable musical notation with words. http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/music.html
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Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers: http://www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/
Cantigas de Santa Maria: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/
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The Copenhagen Chansonniers: http://chansonniers.pwch.dk/
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Early Music Chicago Links with free resources: http://earlymusichicago.org/sheet_music_scores.htm
Early Music Online: http://www.earlymusiconline.org (article about project here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110929074037.htm "500-Year-Old Music Books Accessible to All"
Alternate link here: http://digirep.rhul.ac.uk/access/search.do?pg.e=true&pg_pp=10&pg_pg=1&hier.topic=52facdbd-19ce-2b92-dbd5-434289d29e8b&qs.tq=&sort_s=RANK)
Stanford University Early Music Library Links: https://lib.stanford.edu/early-music-renaissance-music-music-theory-ethnofolk-interest
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Cantaria Folksong Library - Pre 1600 Songs: http://cantaria.org/lists/pre1600.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20180903162217/http://cantaria.org/lists/pre1600.html
Will need to look up listed titles here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://cantaria.org/lyrics/*
Child Ballads: A Complete List: http://www.contemplator.com/child/index.html http://www.contemplator.com/child/cmpltchl.html
The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/
Ravenscroft Songbook: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/songbook/
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Gregorian Chant and Music in the Sistine Chapel - Lecture: http://oyc.yale.edu/music/musi-112/lecture-15
Liber Usualis - The Liber Usualis is a book of commonly used Gregorian chants in the Catholic tradition, compiled by the monks of the Abbey of Solesmes in France. According to Willi Apel, the chants in the Liber Usualis originated in the 11th century.
Information about a book of commonly used Gregorian chants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Usualis
Full Gregorian chant book, in Latin with English instructions; 1961 ver. 2,340 pages
https://archive.org/details/TheLiberUsualis1961/mode/2up
St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music, by E. G. P. Wyatt - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31582
On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music by Camille Saint-Saëns - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30412
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Italian Madrigals: http://www.italianmadrigal.com/
Madrigals from the Oxford Book of English Madrigals: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The_Oxford_Book_of_English_Madrigals
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Medieval Music: Birth of Polyphony; editorial article: http://www.stanford.edu/~jrdx/medieval.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20151027060900/http://web.stanford.edu/~jrdx/medieval.html
Medieval Music - http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-music/index.htm
* Waits - http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-music/waits.htm
Medieval Music & Arts Foundation: http://www.medieval.org/
Piæ Cantiones - A Medieval Song Treasury
Theodoric Petri, ed., Piæ Cantiones Ecclesiasticæ Et Scholasticæ Vetervm Episcoporum. "Devout ecclesiastical and scholastic songs of the old bishops" (Gyphisuualdiæ: Augustinum Ferberum, 1582)
https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/piae_cantiones.htm
Piæ Cantiones - 16th-century Finnish songbook - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Piae_Cantiones
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About Minnesingers 12th - 14th Century: https://www.medieval-spell.com/Minnesingers.html
Information on Meistersangers 14th - 16th Century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meistersinger
"'Disticha Catonis - Database of German Translations" (site is in German, can translate to English) : https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/disticha-catonis/
Disticha Catonis (Full Latin Text) http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cato.dis.html
Domains of Application and ‚Skopos' of the German Cato Translations in the Late Middle Ages-Artilce also by Michael Baldzuhn: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/14514446.pdf
(Good information on de Meistersangers: http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/disticha-catonis/homepage/papers/meistergesang-2008.pdf *Link Broken as of 3/18/23 Link Check; Search for article elsewhere on web in progress...)
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The Middle Ages Literature Archive (ARLIMA) (*May need a page translator, website is written in French): https://www.arlima.net/
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Renaissance Improvisation and Musicology - Julie E. Cumming http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.13.19.2/mto.13.19.2.cumming.html
The Musical Life of Henry VIII: https://www.englandcast.com/2018/05/henryviiisongbook/
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Timeline: 12th Century Troubadours, Trouveres And Bernart De Ventadorn https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-classical/2015-06-08/timeline-007-12th-century-troubadours-trouveres-and-bernart-de-ventadorn
Troubadours and Trouvères - Oxford Bibliographies: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0148.xml
Troubadour Works: http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/ ('A repository of troubadour works, many with English translations and midi melodies (troubadour songs weren't written down with much indication of rhythm, so really just listen to the pitches and do what sounds good to you with rhythm')
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The Codex Fabliuuam: A compendium of reference materials sorted by century and region. Meticulously collected by Master Aleksandr Ruslanovich (known as "Yevsha") and a former head of the Carolingian Storyteller's Guild. - http://users.rcn.com/tighe/CODEX_FABLIAUUM/bio.html
http://users.rcn.com/tighe/CODEX_FABLIAUUM/codextoc.html
IMSLP Petrucci Music Library "by time period" search timeline: http://imslp.org/wiki/Browse_people_by_time_period
Texts on Music in English 14th - 17th C. Sources: http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tme/index.html
(Article related to 'Texts on Music in English) - http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tme/16th/LECPROV1_MLBLR18.html
Timeline of Western Bardic (SCA FB Bards Doc *link updated 3/2023):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bardicarts/permalink/317206175079802/
List of Period Monophonic Titles in English (SCA FB Bards Doc *link updated 3/2023): https://www.facebook.com/groups/bardicarts/permalink/336020993198320/
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SCA Dance Database Search Engine - Steve Hendrics Music Collection: http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/
Historical Medieval and Renaissance Dance Music: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/music.html
SCA Minstrel Homepage: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/minstrel.html
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_______ The Sound of Medieval Song: Ornamentation and Vocal Style according to the Treatises. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1998 ISBN 0-19-816619-2 Incredible amount of detailed s...tuff on various ornaments, how they appear in ms, how to
interpret them according to actual medieval treatises, copied a bunch of pages.
_______ Medieval Instrumental Dances Indiana U Press: Bloomington, 1989 ISBN 0-253-33353-9 lots of music, some pieces several pages long. melodies only. Info about ornaments, etc. spiral bound.
_________., ed. Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Early Drama,Art, and Music Monograph Series, 30. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003. ISBN 1-58055-044-4
McGee,Timothy J., ed. Instruments and their Music in the Middle Ages. Aldershot:Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xxv, 529. ISBN:9780754627623.
McGee,Timothy J.,A. G. Rigg and David N. Klausner, eds. Singing Early Music: the Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (includes CD)
McGee,Timothy J., Medieval and Renaissance Music: a Performance Guide U. of Toronto Press, 1985