Resources
- ABC Index (Anne Bell's ClariNet music website index)
- Ashmolean Instruments (n.b. Shipping costs reduced; offer extended to 31 January 2011)
- Atlanta Early Music Alliance
- The British Library on-line manuscript catalogue
- Michael & Maria Bruessing (courses in Europe, consort)
- Canadian Viol Players/La Viole de Gambe au Canada
- Cantar alla Viola im 16 Jh. (dissertation by Thilo Hirsch, in German)
- Chamber Music America (includes grant and career info pages)
- 'Chelys', the journal of the British Viola da Gamba Society. Ended in 2004, replaced by The Viola da Gamba Society Journal
- Classical.com (many links, though mostly post-Baroque)
- ClassicalNet (many music links)
- CultureFinder
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (including the Dow Partbooks)
- La Donna Musicale (organization for research on music by women composers)
- Early Music America
- Early MusiChicago (Chicago-area events and resources)
- Early Music Resources from "rec.music.early"
- Feldenkrais Center of Chicago
- Les Festes de Thalie (organization supporting Baroque music)
- La Folia, a musical cathedral
- Forum fur Alte Musik (Freiburg, Germany)
- French-American Conservatory of Music (New York, NY)
- Gamba Music Club (U.K.)
- Gamba Talk (Google group: Bilingual French/English - bilingue français/anglais)
- Goldberg magazine
- Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
- William Lawes (by Nigel Rushbrook)
- Lyra Viol's Alive! (by David Saphra)
- Making the Tudor Viol (Michael Fleming)
- Joelle Morton's Historical Bass Website (Online information and sources about the viola da gamba, violone, double bass and their performance practices)
- The Making of a Bass Viol (by Peter Huetmannsberger, from his website)
- The Newberry Library
- The Online Journal of Bass Research
- The Mountain Collegium
- Orpheon Foundation (Museum of Historical Musical Instruments, Vienna, Austria)
- Orpheon Foundation viola da gamba page
- OSUNA index/discography of artists and instruments (Netherlands)
- Annette Otterstedt (Bows and Viols)
- The Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering (2007) (Papers from this meeting can be viewed here)
- Polyphony.com Historical performance in NYC
- Shrine to Music Museum
- Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
- Southwest Early Music Forum (SW England)
- Tafelmusik's Baroque Learning Centre
- Thematic Index of Music for Viols (VdGS)
- La Viola da Gamba (a paean to the instrument by Horacio Bollini, in Spanish)
- The Viola da Gamba (information and services from Jonathan Dunford)
- "Viol Things" (miscellany from Jules Siegel)
- Viola da Gamba resources (in Hungarian)
- The Viola da Gamba Society Journal
- Werner Icking Music Archive (lots of music for viols!)
- A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
Early Music Sales
- AquilaUSA (Aquila's American distributor)
- Boulder Early Music Shop (Eugene, OR)
- A Cast of Characters (lost-wax castings with viol themes)
- Coda Music Technology (Finale/Allegro software, et al.)
- Damian Dlugolecki (string-maker)
- Early Folk Strings (strings)
- Edition Guentersberg (Early Music publisher)
- Elizabethan Play Along
- Facsimiles Fuzeau (music in facsimile)
- Sergio Gistri
- Honeysuckle Music (St. Paul, MN)
- Magnamusic Distributors Inc.
- Lazar's Early Music (Sunnyvale, CA)
- The Musical Offering (Berkeley, CA)
- Northwood Music (George Hunter's publications)
- Periodrecording.com (downloadable recordings)
- PRB Productions (early and contemporary viol music from Peter Ballinger)
- Prima la Musica (early music publisher)
- Recorder MusicMail (West Yorkshire, UK--also offering viol music)
- The Recorder Shop (Loux Music Co.)
- RipMeister Publications (music from Daniel Rippe)
- Rondo Publishing (UK)
- Saraband Music (Kilcoy, QLD, Australia)
- Shar Music (Baroque instruments and bows)
- Ut Orpheus Edizioni (Bologna, Italy)
- Von Huene Workshop (Brookline, MA)
Organizations
- American Chamber Music Players
- American Recorder Society
- Australian Viola da Gamba Society
- Boston Early Music Festival
- Country Dance and Song Society
- Early Music America
- Early Music Vancouver (information on the concert series, the summer courses, the quarterly journal Musick, and other activities)
- Federation of Viola da Gamba Societies (Belgium)
- Guild of American Luthiers
- Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
- Lute Society of America
- San Diego Early Music Society
- San Francisco Early Music Society
- Societe Francaise de Viole (Viola da Gamba Society of France)
- Viola da Gamba Foundation of the Netherlands
- Viola da Gamba - Gesellschaft (Viola da Gamba Society founded in Switzerland; site is mostly in German)
- Viola da Gamba Society of America Chapters:
- Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain
- Viola da Gamba Society of Japan
- Viola d'Amore Society of America
Contact:
Dr. Myron Rosenblum
39-23 47th St.
Sunnyside, NY 11104or Dr. Daniel Thomason
10917 Pickford Way
Culver City, CA 90230
Performers
- Tal Arbel
- Claire Bracher
- Cantar alla Viola
- The Catacoustic Consort
- Charivari Agréable
- Concordia
- Corvina Consort (Hungary)
- Alison Crum
- Diabolus in Musica (French Ensemble specializing in Medieval music, directed by Antoine Guerber)
- John Dornenburg
- Jonathan Dunford
- Jay Elfenbein (and Ruby Gamba)
- Ensemble Arcimboldo
- Ensemble Soleil
- Esterhazy Ensemble
- La Favoritte
- Fretwork
- La Gamba (viol consort, Freiburg, Germany)
- Thilo Hirsch
- Josie and The Emeralds
- Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort (Japan)
- London Baroque
- Ensemble Mikado (Austria)
- Musicke & Mirth (Viol duo based in Europe)
- Musica Antiqua of ISU
- Musica Pacifica
- The Newberry Consort
- ORLANDOviols
- Sestina Consort
- Shaun Ng
- Sociedad de Musica Antigua "Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe" (Bariloche, Argentina)
- On-Line Musicians List (modern instruments)
- Orpheon Consort
- Orpheon Foundation Museum of Historical Musical Instruments (Vienna)
- Parthenia
- Hille Perl
- Phantasm
- Phoenix, The Israel Consort of Viols
- Rose Consort
- John Mark Rozendaal
- Sex Chordae
- The Spirit of Gambo A Chicago Consort of Viols
- The Spirit of Gambo (Dutch ensemble)
- Tafelmusik
- Teatro Arcimboldo (Swiss mixed consort)
- Jose Vazquez
- Les Voix Humaines (viol duo, Quebec)
- Petr Wagner
- Washington (DC) Recorder Society
- Ekkehard Weber
Instrument Makers/Sellers/Repairers
- Ander Arroitajauregi Aranburu
- Ralph Ashmead (bow maker)
- Atelier des 7 Cordes (Francois Danger)
- Francis Beaulieu (Viols and Baroque instruments)
- Robert Blaszauer
- Wesley Brandt
- Francois Danger
- Bert Dekker Stringed Instruments
- Christopher English (bow maker)
- Renate Fink (viol & violin maker)
- Sergio Gistri
- Harry Grabenstein (bow maker)
- Henner Harders
- Peter Huetmannsberger
- Peter Jay Huiras (violins and guitars)
- International Violinmakers School of Cremona
- Kingham MTM Case Co. (made-to-order instrument cases)
- Judith Kraft
- Gesina Liedmeier
- Thomas Mace (violin & viol maker)
- Edward Maday
- Stephen Marvin (bow maker)
- William Monical and Son
- Owen Morse-Brown (Medieval strings)
- Mark Moya (bass viols and baroque violins)
- Music Trader
- Charlie Ogle
- John Pringle
- Yael Rosenblum
- Toby Rzepka
- Ruby Instruments (J M Goorissen)
- Alexandra Saur
- Linda Shortridge
- Colin Skofield
- Upton Bass String Instrument Co. (instrument repair, Mystic CT)
- Wendy's Viols (low-cost Chinese viols offered by Bill Lazar)
- Floris-Jan van der Voort
- David T. Van Zandt