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This catalogue provides a single resource for scholars, trombonists, chamber musicians, and conductors to access instrumental solo, ensemble, and choral works specifying trombone from the sixteenth century through to the end of the eighteenth.  This catalogue documents nearly 9000 musical works specifying the trombone, from anonymous pieces mentioned in early sixteenth-century writings up to Haydn’s […]

The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan welcomes applications for 2024-2025 research fellowships. The Clements’ holdings—books, manuscripts, pamphlets, maps, prints and views, newspapers, photographs, ephemera—are among the best in the world on almost any aspect of the American experience from 1492 through 1900, and support a diverse array of research projects. The

Double bassist Elisabeth Ellison has become the first graduate of the full program of Medieval Music Besalu (Catalonia), receiving a Specialist Certificate in Medieval Music Performance Practice, issued by the University of Lleida. This rigorous program, headed by musicologist Mauricio Molina, began as a summer institute over a decade ago, then was expanded to a

BLOOD, BOOZE & BETRAYAL is the debut album of Freelance Nun, an amorphous and adventurous duo-led collective founded by Tracy Cowart & Sian Ricketts. Recorded between 2020-2023  at The Carriage House and Tiny Panther Recording and released on November 10, 2023, this album features 8 new tracks that venture into the delightful macabre in collaboration

Piffaro, the Renaissance Band will welcome soprano Clara Rottsolk for its annual concert series of holiday music from the Renaissance period. This year’s program features music from Southern Germany, a wellspring of Christmas traditions and carols that are still beloved today. Concerts take place December 8 and 9 in Philadelphia and December 10 at historic