Europe

Medieval

• Gregorian chant on the web (Princeton University)
• Gregorian chant links (University of Arkansas)
• “History of Western Notation” in Grove Music (Wesleyan student access only)
• Western music “Notation” in Oxford Companion to Music (Wesleyan student access only)
• “Neume” on Wikipedia
• Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
• Graduale Project
• “Alleluia: Dies sanctficatus” sung from the Graduale Triplex
• St. Gall manuscripts (including 359, ca. 922-25); and transcriptions from 359
• “Desu Deus Meus”
  • recording with notation from St. Gall 359
  • St. Gall 359 (pp. 90-93); St. Gall neumes (Grove Music)
  • Parallel Latin/English Psalter
  • Liber Usualis (1961) block notation

Renaissance

• “Renaissance Improvisation and Musicology” (Julie Cumming, MTO 19.2, 2013)
• Improvising a canon #1

18th Century

• Bach’s Crab Canon, The Musical Offering (another view)
• Genius of J. S. Bach’s Crab Canon (on a mobius strip)
• Galant Style
  • Audio and other examples for Gjerdingen’s Music in the Galant Style
  • A YouTube Compendium of Galant Schemata
  • AOC 011: Partimenti and the Secrets of the Greatest Composers – An Interview with Robert Gjerdinge‪n‬
  • Vasili Byros, “Theory and Archeology in Robert Gjerdingen’s Music in the Galant Style“
  • Child improvising in Galant style
  • Rob Paravonian, “Pachelbel Rant“
  • MTO review of Sanguinetti’s The Art of Partimento (2012)
  • Galant schemata
    • Exercise 1
    • Exercise 2
    • “Andrò ramingo e solo”: Galant Schemata in the Great Quartet from Mozart’s Idomeneo
• Musical Dice Games
  • Musikalisches Wurfelspiel (Kirnberger/Mozart)
• Robert Levin
  • Free Fantasy on Mozart
  • Reimagining Historical Improvisation: An Analysis of Robert Levin’s Fantasy on Themes by W. A. Mozart, October 29, 2012

20th Century

• European Free Improvisation

Other

• Albert Lord, The Singer of Tales
  • The Milman Parry Collection (photos, audio)
  • Avdo Mededovic film (1935)
• improvinsights.com
• Concepts of Improvisation, University of Basel