This page is devoted to the conventional period designations of the history of music

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Ancient Greek Music

Medieval Music

Medieval Music
Musique Ancienne
The Making of a Medieval Book (Getty Exhibitions)

Renaissance

Illuminating the Renaissance - (Getty Exhibitions)
Index to Renaissance Vocal Music in Collections
Renaissance Masses, 1440-1520
Renaissance music
Chansons d'Amour - The Copenhagen Chansonnier

Facsimiles and editions of early music

For a useful description of Medieval Manuscripts see the Medieval Manuscript Manual

• Acadia Early Music Score Archive (Gordon Callon)
  • Acadia Early Music Facsimile Archive
• Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (Olivier Bettens)
• Ap Huw Manuscript (Greg Lindahl)
• Arbeau's Orchesography -
  • Musical settings (Joseph Casazza)
  • Complete text (Nicolas Graner)
• Arenaï Ensemble Database
• Cantigas de Santa María (Greg Lindahl)
• Centre Coral (Federació Catalana d'Entitats Corals)
• Choral Public Domain Library (Rafael Ornes)
• Coppini Edition (Jens Peter Jacobsen)
• Da Costa Manuscript (Paulo Galvao & Roman Turovsky)
• Dancing Master: An Illustrated Compendium (Robert M. Keller)
• Dowland Manuscript Project (Alain Veylit)
• Early Italian Baroque Library (Studio Ahoyo)
• Free Sheet Music (Johan Tufvesson)
• Gallica
• Guitar Tablatures (Donald Sauter-half way down the page)
• Werner Icking Music Archive
• Italian Motets of the 17th Century (Dennis Collins)
• Orlando de Lasso "The Divine"
• Lute & Tombeau (Roman Turovsky)
• Lute Tablature in PDF and Postscript (Wayne Cripps)
• Music typeset in ABC: Morley et al. (Laura Conrad)
• Musica Divina (Jeff Ostrowski)
• Musica Viva Free Sheet Music (Frank Nordberg)
• MusicTeX Score Library (M.A.B. Soloists)
• Partitions de musique ancienne (Gérard Boudet)
• Partituras de Sólo Voces para descargar
• Playford's English Dancing Master (Jeff Lee)
• Recorder Player's Page (Christian Mondrup)
• Baroque Music Home Page
• Sixteenth Century Ballads (Greg Lindahl)
• Tesori Musicali Toscani
• Textes et musiques du Moyen Age (Christian Brassy)
• Virga Musica (Mike Heemskerk)
• Western Manuscripts to c.1500 (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
• Liber Scolae Virginis 14-16th century (St Laurentius digital manuscript library)
• Ecclesiastical manual for the liturgy of consecration of cemeteries, altars etc 15th century (St Laurentius digital manuscript library)
• Liturgical manual for the Roskilde diocese 16th century (St Laurentius digital manuscript library)
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
• The Digital Scriptorium. Union Catalog Of Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts
• Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC)
• EMSI European Manuscript Server Initiative