Period Material Resources

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

A&S Resources for Original Works Written in a Period Style 

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 Phoneitc Alphabet & Music Theory

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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Broadside Ballad

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 

Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers:  http://www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/

Cantigas de Santa Maria:  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/

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Copenhagen Chansonnier and the ‘Loire Valley’ chansonniers 1460-1490's

The Copenhagen Chansonniers:  http://chansonniers.pwch.dk/

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Early Music 

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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Folksong and Child Ballads

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 

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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Madrigals

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

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 - 1582, Greifswald, Sweden

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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Meistersangers & Minnesingers

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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Middle Ages 

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 

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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Troubadours and Trouvères 

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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Reference Materials, Music Libraries & Texts by Time Period

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, Medieval, and Renaissance Dance Music

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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Books On Period Performance

_______ 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