Early Music / Historically Informed Performance

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What is Early Music? - Todd M. McComb. Early Music FAQ
[Wiki] What is Historically Informed Performance (HIP)?
Historically Informed Performance Practice - RichardNilsen.com
Historical Pitch: How It Affects the Lute - Martin Shepherd
Tuning the World: Pitch Lessons for the History of Music Theory - History of Music Theory
ISO-16: Acoustics - Standard Tuning Frequency (Standard Musical Pitch) - International Organization for Standardization
History of Pitch - Capion Larsen
[Wiki] Circle of Fifths
Differences Between “Standard” and Historical Baroque Stringing - The Monteverdi Violins
Early Music History, Listening, and Appreciation - EarlyMusicLovers.com
European Medieval and Renaissance Early Music FAQ - Edited by Todd M. McComb
Timeline of Musical Styles & Guitar History - AcousticMusic.org
A Guide to Medieval Music (until 1400) - BBC Music Magazine
A Guide to Renaissance Music (1400-1600) - BBC Music Magazine
A Guide to Baroque Music (1600-1750) - BBC Music Magazine
[Video] What is Historically Informed Performance - HIP? - Toronto Bach Festival
[Video] What is Historically Informed Performance? - Daniel Adam Maltz
[Video] 5 Things to Know About Historical Performance Practice / Playing Baroque Music - Emily Plays Cello
[Video] Mapping a Polycentric History of Renaissance Sound - Victor Coelho / Yale University
[Video] Tuning and Temperaments in the Renaissance - Part 1 - Early Music Sources

[Video] Tuning and Temperaments in the Renaissance - Part 2 - Early Music Sources

[Video] Sir Thomas Beecham Talks About Historically Informed Performance (1959) - eschscholzia
[Video] Baroque Pitch vs. Standard Pitch - John Moraitis
[Video] Historical Pitch?? - Early Music Sources
[Video] The Dark History of Perfect Pitch - Metta Beshay
[Video] The History of Musical Pitch - Music Matters
The History of Musical Pitch - Alexander J. Ellis. Nature, vol. 21, pp. 550-554, 1880
The 'Authentic' Sound of Early Music - Jeremy Montagu. Early Music, Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp. 242-243, July 1975
Early Music on New Instruments - Gordon Dood. Early Music, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 123-124, January 1976
The Economics of Early Music - Nicholas Kenyon. Early Music, Vol. 4, Issue. 4, pp. 443-448, October 1976
Musica Reservata: Early Music Ensembles - Michael Morrow and J.M. Thomson. Early Music, Vol. 4, Issue. 4, pp. 515-521, October 1976
The Rebirth of Early Music - Marco Pallis. Early Music, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 41-45, January 1978
Musical Performance and Authenticity - Michael Morrow. Early Music, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 233-246, April 1978
Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium - Edited by Nicholas Kenyon. Oxford University Press, 1988
[PDF] A Brief History of the Establishment of International Standard Pitch a=440 Hertz - Lynn Cavanagh. Self-published, 1999
Baroque String Playing for Ingenious Learners - Judy Tarling. Punnett Press, 2001
[PDF] The Early Violin and Viola: A Practical Guide - Robin Stowell. Cambridge University Press, July 2001
A History of Performing Pitch: The Story of “A” - Bruce Haynes. Scarecrow Press, 2002
[French] Vous Avez Dit "Baroque"? - Petite Étude en Forme de Témoignage ( Did You Say "Baroque"? - A Short Study in the Form of a Testimony) - Jean-Louis Petit. Musicologie.org, 2008
A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music - Edited by Stewart Carter, revised and expanded by Jeffery Kite-Powell. Indiana University Press, 2012
Revisiting the Future of Early Music in Britain - Francis Knights. Early Music, Vol. 41, Issue 1, pp. 11-15, February 2013
Early Music: A Very Short Introduction - Thomas Forrest Kelly. New York, 2011; Oxford Academic, 2014
The Authenticity Impulse: Early Music and its Revival - Danny Riley. Bachtrack, July 2017
[PDF] [Italian] L’interpretazione della Musica Antica: Pratica e Teoria dal Medioevo all’Invenzione del Melodramma (The Interpretation of Early Music Practice and Theory from the Middle Ages to the Invention of the Opera) - Marco Ferrari. Ut Orpheus, 2022
The Wrong Trousers: Can New Training Re-Purpose Early Music Skills for Historically Informed Performance? - AndrewLawrenceKing.com, July 2022
[PDF] Bach’s Chaconne, BWV 1004: A Guide to Historically Informed Performance - Christina Volz-Stomackin. The University of Memphis, 2023
Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics 1859-1955 - Fanny Gribenski. The University of Chicago Press, 2023
For Period Instrument Ensembles, the Last 50 Years Have Been Golden - Inge Kjemtrup. Strings Magazine, September 2023
Concepts of Authenticity in Early Music and Popular Music Communities - Dr. Elizabeth Upton. Ethnomusicology Review, 2025
The Ups (and Downs) of Collegiate Early Music - Kyle MacMillan. EMAg, May 2025
[Italian] La Musica Antica che Gira Intorno - Parte I (Ancient Music That Goes Around - Part I) - Edited by Paolo Scarnecchia. Giornale della Musica, October 15 2025

[Italian] La Musica Antica che Gira Intorno - Parte II (Ancient Music That Goes Around - Part II) - Edited by Paolo Scarnecchia. Giornale della Musica, October 22 2025