How You Can Contribute

This is a 100% volunteer not-for-profit effort. The website has potential for substantial expansion, and I am looking for contributors in the following specific areas. If you can offer anything mentioned here, or have other ideas for additions to this project, please contact Nell at nell@earlyinstruments.org

Anyone who contributes will be thanked on the about page (unless they request not to be).

INSTRUMENTALISTS / MUSICOLOGISTS: Instrument pages

If you have expertise in early instruments or historical performance practice, please consider contributing in any of the following ways:

• Original articles.
• Additions to pre-existing content.
• Audio, videos or photos which would enhance the pages (only original content that is not under copyright).
• An interview with myself (editor), either through email, phone or in person, which I would make into articles and/or media clips.

About original articles: if you'd like to write content for these pages, let me know your area(s) of expertise and I will send you a questionnaire and guideline of some topics you could address.

About additions to pre-existing content: some pages on this site have notes where further content is desirable (i.e. if there is a general profile of an instrument but there needs to be more information on specific topics). Please take a look at the areas where you may be able to contribute, and see if there is anything you could add.

About audio/video and interviews: if you would be willing to give an interview about your instrument(s) through email or phone, I will prepare a questionnaire. If you can record yourself performing your instrument (in audio or video), I will send a guideline of what would be most helpful to demonstrate. (Pre-existing clips are also welcome.) If you would be willing to be recorded but do not have the technical capability, or would be willing to do an interview in person, I'm within traveling distance of New York City and a meeting could be negotiated.

A general note about the instrument pages: keep in mind that this is intended specifically as a resource for composers, and should offer information that is directed towards how and what to write for these instruments. Historical background may be addressed, but should be secondary to technical concerns (how the instrument sounds, how it is played, what it can and cannot do, etc). There are other websites which can offer more thorough information about the historical origins of the instruments (see links).

WRITERS / MUSIC-AWARE PEOPLE: Blog, Music and Links pages

If you know of any artists who have composed or performed new music on early instruments, or any websites, news or articles which may be of interest, please consider contributing to the blog, music or links pages. If you have just a few additions, email me the info and I will put it up. If you would like to become a regular contributor, tell me a little bit about your background and the topics you'd like to address. I may arrange it so that you can add content directly to this website (no HTML knowledge required).

I am looking for one or several people to keep the blog active (I will post the news relating to this website). Some ideas for what could be covered in the blog:

• Concerts and recordings featuring new music performed by EM specialists.
• Major events in the EM or contemporary classical worlds, outside of this specialized area (we can't handle comprehensive coverage, but some interesting or important news is welcome).
• Essays on topics of interest.

EDUCATIONAL & ARTS INSTITUTIONS / INDIVIDUAL DONORS: Funding and resources

In the future, I hope to organize a workshop, concert and/or recording of compositions for early instruments. There will be many expenses associated with this, which may include rehearsal space rental, payment for performers, performance space and/or studio time, publicity materials, packaging and distribution, travel expenses, etc. If you are an institution or individual who would like to fund or collaborate on such a project, please let me know the nature of your interest.