Purcell Video

This is a depiction of what a brass ensemble may have played as a funeral march during the late 1600s.  Ensemble includes sackbut, trumpets, and drum.

Unaffordable Early Brass Video

Got a VHS player?  Got $70 to burn?  This is for you.

Historic Brass Society

This organization is responsible for the much-acclaimed Historic Brass Society Journal, in which cutting-edge scholarly research in the area of early brass music and instruments is published.

Their website is a nice resource as well, containing the blogs of HBS members.

Check it out here.

Early Music Chicago: Brass

This is another terrific online resource for early brass.  Visitors can find information about the instruments themselves, as well as links to ensembles, recordings, and more.

Visit the site here.

Maryland Early Brass

Located at http://www.earlybrass.org, this group is based in the Baltimore area but is active throughout the mid-Atlantic United States.  They seem dedicated to performance on authentic instruments, and their website has many links to useful early brass resources that would be relevant to our class discussions.

The Dodworth Saxhorn Band

On one of my first posts, a comment was left suggesting that I check out this ensemble... I'm glad I did!

Going one step further than providing historically-informed performance, The Dodworth Saxhorn Band is a full reenactment of one of the first all-brass American band.  As their performance includes costume and actual antique instruments (from c. 1860-80), we might say that this period brass ensemble has found a way to incorporate entertainment into an otherwise highly intellectual genre.

Their website can be found here.

His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts

This is an ensemble which I've posted about before, and I played some of their music during my listening presentation.

This is a video I found in which they perform part of a sonata by Dario Castello (c. 1590-1630) in the church where Thomas Tallis was buried.