Early Music Online

Trium vocum cantiones centum : à praestantissimis
diversarum nationum ac linguarum musicis compositae.
 1541. Collection of motets and songs in three parts

Early Music Online
This collection holds digitised images of some of the world's oldest surviving volumes of printed music.
Early Music Online is the result of a pilot project in which more than 300 volumes of 16th-century music from the British Library were digitised from microfilm.
". . .  more than 300 of the earliest surviving printed music collections, containing some 10,000 individual works. Most of the publications are sets of part-books of vocal polyphony, though some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments are also available. Included is music printed in Italy, Germany, France, and England. Browsing and keyword searching are available through links to the Royal Holloway and British Library websites. In addition, full bibliographic descriptions of all the publications are available in the British Library catalog, the RISM UK database, and through the COPAC UK union catalog. . . .  All in all, this site is a model for future digitization projects to follow. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above. -- M. D. Jenkins II, Wright State University" Choice, March 2012.
The project was funded by JISC as part of the Rapid Digitisation programme 2011.
The digitised content is copyright © The British Library Board, and is made available for non-commercial use under the JISC Collections Open Education User Licence version 1.0. You may use the digitised content on Early Music Online in any way and for any such purposes that are conducive to education, teaching, learning, private study and/or research as long as you are in compliance with the terms and conditions of the licence. You may not use the content for commercial purposes.