Larry D Brown lutenist, early music performance in Cincinnati, Renaissance lute, Medieval lute, Baroque lute, Vihuela, Medieval Citole, Rebec and Vielle, Baroque Guitar.

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New The Descendents of the Baroque Guitar in Colonial Mexico: the Jarana and the Requinto or Guitarra de Son.

        Our Early Music group The Noyse Merchants plays Medieval and Renaissance music as well as music from the early Baroque. We play music from the 12th through the 17th centuries on historical musical instruments. Music from the Middle Ages, the Crusades, music from early Ireland, Scotland and England--essentially popular music from previous centuries. Historically-informed performances are supported with research into areas as diverse as musicology, instrument-making, literature, medieval and renaissance studies, and fine arts.

The Instrument Making section has detailed photos showing the construction of a Baroque Guitar, Vihuela, Rebec, Orpharion, Citole, Fiddle, Vielle, Medieval Lute, Renaissance Lute, and Baroque Archlute.

This website also contains a brief history of early instrument building in Cincinnati, including the work of Larry Brown, Ben Bechtel, and Dave Schneider.

Group photo by Kevin Hartnell.

© Early Music Cincinnati, 2006, and Larry Brown, lute maker. Ensemble for early music in Cincinnati Ohio includes early music entertainment, Renaissance and Medieval Music, concerts, world music, classical music, chamber music, events. Cincinnati live music. Ensemble members here in Cincinnati pursue private early music lessons in baroque guitar, lute, recorder, and other historical instruments in order to gain an understanding of the many practical and theoretical areas essential to performance of medieval, renaissance, and baroque music (e.g. improvisation, ornamentation, articulation, basso continuo, historical notation, bibliography, organology, and more.) Research and experimentation with a diversity of early musical instruments in Cincinnati. Renaissance lute, Baroque Guitar, rebec, wooden Renaissance flute, Renaissance and Baroque recorders, (including soprano, alto, tenor, and bass recorder), medieval small pipes (hummelchen) , Hurdy Gurdy, and baroque violin. The rare thing about Musica Antiqua Cincinnati is our group's access to extraordinary resources, including lute-making, baroque guitar construction, and building early instruments. The construction of early instruments in our workshop here in Cincinnati allows us to experiment with different early music sounds and tone colors. We create the opportunity to perform early music in a broad cultural context and the ability to weave the pedagogical and performance strands together in a way that makes historically-informed performance of early music enjoyable to the broadest spectrum of listeners.