Charles's Music Page

An index of publications, dedicated to musical instruments. Some files are largish, say up to 1Mb, so if you are on a slow connection, it may take a little while to download.

• Galpin Society Journal index
  
  
• FoMRHI Quarterly index with a hibernation period between July 2002 and August 2008.
  
  
• Early Music index until 2007, subscription discontinued.

• Bouwbrief index

The above links provide indexes only. If you would like to have the articles or back issues themselves, you will need to contact the publisher.

The Galpin Society has its own web site. It has also an index (from which I have borrowed its layout) and a subscription form for membership.

FoMRHI the Fellowship of Makers and Researchers of Historical Instruments, is alive again. It has even its own web site.

After the retirement of the Founding Fathers Jeremy Montagu (Honorary Secretary) and Ephraim Segerman (Honorary Editor) in July 2000 with the 100th FoMRHI Quarterly, the Quarterly rapidly declined under a new Secretary and Editor and stopped completely (without any announcement at all) after the combined 107-108 Quarterly in July 2002. A pity!

But FoMRHI wasn't dead, it was only in hibernation! In July 2008 Chris Goodwin (the secretary of the Lute Society sent out an information to all known members that he intended to revive FoMRHI after 6 years of silence. The intention was to publish one or two issues of the Quarterly with material still available, but he is looking for new publications. If you are interested to join, contact Chris Goodwin at his email address .

One day after writing the paragraph above, FoMRHI Quarterly 109, August 2008, arrived in my post box on 22nd August 2008! And now, December 2010, FoMRHI appears to be healthy again, and Quarterly 117 has arrived today. Look for more information at FoMRHI's web site

FoMRHI is an informal publication with membership distribution only. It will therefore be very difficult to find copies of the Quarterly and the articles (called Communications) in libraries. However, all prevous Quarterlies have now (Dec 2010) been scanned and you can freely download all Quarterlies in PDF format from FoMRHI's web site .

Below is a list of Institutional Members (6th July 2000, a more recent version is not available, I think), where you could probably consult hard copies.

• University of New England, Serials Section, Dixson Library, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
• Reid Library, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia
• Musée des Instruments de la Musique, 1 Rue Villa Hermosa, B-1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
• Centrum voor Muziekinstrumentenbouw, Guido Gezellelaan 89, B-2870 Puurs, Belgium
• University of British Columbia, Serials Division, Main Library, 2075 Westbrook Place, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1W5, Canada
• Chines University of Hong Kong, University Library (Continuations Library), Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
• Estonian Theatre & Music Museum, Müürivahe 12, 200001 Tallin, Estonia
• Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires, Centre d'Ethnologie Française - CNRS, 6 av du Mahatma Ghandi, F-75116, Paris, France
• Musée de la Musique, 221 av Jean-Jaurès, F-75019 Paris, France
• Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig, Täubchenweg 2c-e, D-O-701 Leipzig, Germany
• Bayerische Staatsbibliotheek, Erwerbungsabteilung DFG/ZS, Postfach 150, D 80328 München, Germany
• Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Standort Mommenstrasse, D-01069 Dresden, Germany
• Civica Scuola di Liuteria del Commune di Milano, La Biblioteca, Via Noto 4, I-20141 Milano, Italy
• Bibliotec Berenson, Villa I Tatti, Via di Vincigliata 26, I-50135, Florence, Italy
• Istituto Nazionale Tostiano, Palazzo Corvo, I 66026 Ortona, Italy
• Bar Ilan University Library, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel
• Latvian Music Instrument Makers Association (Maris Jansons), Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum, Brivibasiela 440, Latvia
• Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Letterenbibliotheek, collectie Muziekwetenschap, Drift 27, NL 3512 BR Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Haags Gemeentemuseum, Stadhouderslaan 41, NL 2517 HV Den Haag, the Netherlands
• Werkgroep Bouwerskontakt of the Huismuziek, PO Box 9, 6800 AA Arnhem, the Netherlands. Its website is Bouwerskontakt
• Ringve Museum, Pb 3064 Lade, N-7002 Trondheim, Norway
• Instytut Sztuki PAN (Ewa Dahlig), ul. Dlaga 26/28, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland
• Glinka Museum of Music Culture, 4 Fadeyev Street, 125047 Moscow, Russia
• Museum of Musical Instruments, 5 St Isaac's Square, 190000 St Petersburg, Russia
• Museu de la Música, Avda Diagonal 373, E-08008 Barcelona, Spain
• Staten Musiksamlingar Musikmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Pendlebury Library of Music, University of Cambridge Music School, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP, UK
• Bodleian Library, Dept of Printed Books, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG, UK
• Reid Music Library, Edinburgh University Library, Alison House, 12 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9DF, UK
• London Guildhall University, The Library, 41-71 Commercial Road, London E1 1LA, UK
• Music Library, Serials, 1102 Schoenberg Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1490, USA
• Serials Dept, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA 72242, USA
• University of Kansas Libraries, 201 Watson, Lawrence, KS 66045-2800, USA
• Serials Dept, Lockwood Memorial Library Annexe, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
• University of North Texas, Library, Precision Drive, Denton, TX 76207, USA
• Stanford University Libraries, Green Library, Serials Division, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
• University of Washington Library, Serials Division, Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
• Museum of Fine Arts, The Library, 405 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-5597, USA
• New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018, USA
• Shrine to Music Museum, 414 East Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA

Early Music is a quarterly magazine published by the Oxford University Press and more information can be found on its web site. I have discontinued its subscription as from January 2007; my main interests are in the instruments (especially woodwind) and Early Music has shifted more and more to (very) theoretical articles about many other aspects of music, which did not interest me really.

Last, but not least, is the Bouwbrief (in Dutch), a quarterly publication of the "Bouwerskontakt" of "Huismuziek, vereniging voor samenspel en instrumentenbouw" (formely know as "de Vereniging voor Huismuziek"). The first "Bouwbrief" appeared in 1975 under editorship of the late Toon Moonen. 139 Bouwbrieven have appeared since at the time of writing (end 2010) and the "Bouwerskontakt" is still an active organisation, with many "bouwgroepen" (chapters) dedicated to specific instruments, which join regularly to discuss all kind of aspects of their instruments. Currently, in 2010, issues 1-123 of the Bouwbrieven have been put on a DVD, which can be bought from the Huismuziek, or via Bouwerskontakt's own web site (both only in Dutch).

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