Research and text by Chris Whent at HOASM (Here on a Sunday Morning - WBAI 99.5 FM New York)
Composer Bibliography - links to Wikipedia and HOASM
Discography - lists of commercial musical recordings - links to HOASM
PDF-files (music scores) and MIDI-files - links to CPDL (Choral Public Domain Library)
MP3-recordings - links to public MP3-files at choir home-pages

Research periods

Fifty years ago, when Deutsche Grammophon started its pioneering Archiv Produktion label devoted to (increasingly authentic) performances of early music, the ambitious plan organized the works that were to be recorded in "Research Periods" and through the early 1970s all recordings on that label were classified according to the scheme. It still seems to us a good starting point, and as good a way as any to present information about the music, despite some deficiencies. Indeed, its schematic presentation might be considered prescient, only needing the new technology of the Internet website to realize its full potential. However, the subheadings 1-8 under section IVM have been added. Pure instrumental headings are linked to HOASM. Start the journey here.

I Gregorian chant 1000-1100

Ia The Office

Ib The Mass

Ic The Office for the Dead

II The central Middle Ages 1100-1350

IIa Troubadours, Trouvèrs and Minnesinger

IIb Music of the Minstrels

IIc Early Polyphony

IId The Ars Nova In France

III The Early Renaissance 1350-1450

IIIa The Florentine Group

IIIb From Wolkenstein to Locheimer Liederbuch

IIIc John Dunstable and his time

IIId The Netherlanders to Ockeghem

IIIe The Meistersingers

IIIf Codex Chantilly and LÁrs Subtilior

IIIg The Frottolists and their contemporaries

IV The High Renaissance 1450-1600

IVa The Netherlanders from Josquin des Pres

IVb At the Imperial Court of Maximilian I

IVc Evangelical Church Music

IVd Social Music In Italy

IVe Music for Organ and Lute HOASM

IVf Palestrina and his School

IVg Dance Music in the Renaissance

IVh The German Lied

IVi The French Chanson

IVk Orlandus Lassus & Catholic Polyphonic in Germany

IVl The Spanish Masters

IVm The Elizabethan Age in England

IVm1 English Keyboard Music through 1635 HOASM

IVm2 English Madrigal

IVm3 English Consort Music through 1635

IVm4 Song in the Elizabethan and Stuart Ages

IVm5 English lutenists HOASM

IVm6 Latin Church Music 1460-1575

IVm7 English Church Music

IVm8 Additional Popular Music

IVn The Venetian Style

IVo Italy outside Venice and Rome

IVp From Renaissance to Baroque

V The Italian Seicento 1600-1700

Va Monando and the Vocal Concerto

Vb Claudio Monterverdi

Vc The Toccata

Vd The Cantata

Ve The Sonata

Vf Naples

Vg Sacred Music in the Seicento

Vh Early Oratorio

VI The German Preclassics 1700-1760

VIa Heinrich Schütz

VIb Clavier, Organ and Lute HOASM

VIc The Ensemble Suite HOASM

VId The Lied

VIe The Sonata HOASM

VIf Spiritual, Concerto and Church Cantata

VIg Cathgolic Church Music in 17th C Germany

VII Western Europe 1650-1760

VIIa Henry Purcell and his contemporaries

VIIb At the court of Louis XIV

VIIc The Concersts Spiritual

VIId Chamber & Keyboard Music, Couperin to Rameau HOASM

VIIe Instrumental Works from the end of the 18th C HOASM

VIIf Ballet and Opera

VIIg Cathgolic Church Music in 17th C Germany

VIIh Iberia, New Spain and America

VIIj British Isles after 1730

VIIk Church Music, 18th C Outside Italy

VIII The Italian Settecento 1700-1800

VIIIa The Concerto HOASM

VIIIb The Neapolitan Group HOASM

VIIIc The Harpsichord HOASM

VIIId The Solo and Trio Sonata HOASM

VIIIe Vocal Music

VIIIf Sacred Music of the Italian 18th C

IX The Works of J.S. Bach 1685-1750

IXa Cantatas and Chorals

IXb Motets

IXc Masses and Magnificat

IXd Passions and Oratorios

IXe Songs and Arias

X Georg Frederick Händel 1685-1759

Xa Orchestral Concertos HOASM

Xb Organ Concertos HOASM

Xg Church Music

Xh Opera

XI The German Preclassics (1700-1760)

XIa Georg Philipp Telemann

XIb At the Court of Frederick the Great

XId Orchestral/Chamber Music in Transition HOASM

XIe Bach's Pupils and his Legacy

XIf The Dresden Virtuosi


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