Formerly known as the Cornell Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Lab explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European art music through the study of performance practice, treatises, and engages with historical instruments, gut strings, historical bows, and basso continuo realization on early keyboards. Cornell’s collection of restored historical instruments and modern copies include baroque violins, baroque violas, baroque cellos, violas da gamba, lute, harpsichord, and more. For interested wind-instrument players and singers, write to al2255@cornell.edu and fe58@cornell.edu.
Early Music Lab is open to members of the Cornell and the Ithaca community. No prior experience on historical instruments is required, but a basic competency on their modern counterparts is expected.
Pitch level is A=415. No instrument required—we will provide instruments and bows from Cornell’s collection.
Term: Spring 2026
Meeting time: Wednesdays, 7:00–8:30 p.m.
Location: B08 Lincoln Hall