Renaissance music is music written in Europe during the Renaissance.
Consensus among music historians with notable dissent has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and to close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period,
therefore commencing the musical Renaissance about a hundred years after the beginning of the Renaissance as understood in other disciplines.
Recommended Links & Sites - offering Early and Renaissance music, and/or classical guitar resources
Steve's Page - fabulous collection of classical guitar transcriptions, recordings and links
World Guitarist.com - Daily News Coverage for the World Classical Guitar Community
Guitar Loot.com - Eric Couch's excellent and deep site offering free Scorch and PDF arrangements of classical guitar solos, duos, trios and mixed ensemble (guitar+recorder, etc.). A 'must-visit'
Classical Cat - a widely diverse collection of music and links
Virtual Byrd Consort - an incredible set of digital recordings of Renaissance choral works done in the same fashion as this site. Exquisite.
Royalty Free - Music Downloads - Free music download site - 11 different categories of music - unique, talented and high-quality artists/professional renditions
Southern California Early Music Society - the web site for Southern California Early Music Society and the Society's publication Early Music News, provides an online calendar of early music concerts and events offered in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County areas.
The New Zealand guitar Ensemble group. Consists of 15~20 talented classical guitar students. While you're there, check out links to the Auckland Guitar Society ensemble group.
Elizabethan Songs Book - well-written and free/online. Courtney Allen Powers (author) has done an incredible musicology project, offering in PDF format historically precise and compelling research on the back-drop for many popular works.
Strings By Mail - my source for buying online strings. Excellent selection - and the best prices around (and great guys to work with)
Fandango Games - Early music used as backdrop for online games (in this case, "Ich weiss nit") - I wonder how Ludwig Senfl would feel abou this... My bet? He'd own an iPad, a copy of Madden Football, and love online Early Music.
Geek Science - A translation of this Early Music page into Haitian/Creole, done by Susan Basen - who works with other professionals as Web Hosting Geeks.com