EVE (Electronic and Virtual Editions)

EVE (Electronic and Virtual Editions)

Editions listed here signal curated curated scores, usually with commentary, often with performing parts, and sometimes with critical reports (a log of differences between the present score and the original one). Data files with which you can make your own version of an encoded work are included as appropriate.

ASCIMA (Archive of Seventeenth-Century Italian Madrigals and Arias)

Website: http://www.ascima.bham.ac.uk

Content: The ASCIMA website, directed by John Whenham at Birmingham University (UK), provides full critical editions of entire volumes of secular vocal music which has been edited from printed part-books. Current holdings include madrigal collections by Tarquinio Merula, Claudio Monteverdi, Martino Pesenti, Giovanni Rovetta, Barbara Srozzi, and Giuseppe Valentini. Both single works and entire opuses can be downloaded as single files. Sound files are provided for each work.

WLSCM (Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music)

Website: http://www.sscm-wlscm.org/

The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (ISSN 2330-2429), which operates under the auspices of the http://sscm-sscm.org/ Society for Seventeenth-Century Music], is a curated collection of music focused on music that is not available otherwise. Most items in its catalogue features a "full volume" of works with critical notes. Most publications come from French and Italian composers. A recent addition is the harpsichord music [67 short pieces) of Richard Ayleward (?1626-69), edited by Ronald Woodley. It is supplied with audio samples.