Thomas Binkley ( Cleveland, Ohio, December 26, 1931 –

Bloomington, Indiana Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the seventh-largest city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area. According to the Mo ...

, April 28, 1995) was an American

lutenist A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can refe ...

and

early music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classic ...

scholar. Thomas Eden Binkley studied at the

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(BM. 1956, PhD. 1959) and the

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(1957–58). He taught at the

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that hav ...

in Basel (1973–77). He was then founding director of the

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Early Music Institute at

from 1979 till his death from cancer at the age of 63. For twenty years (1960–1980) he led the

Studio der Frühen Musik A studio is an artist or worker's workroom. This can be for the purpose of acting, architecture, painting, pottery ( ceramics), sculpture, origami, woodworking, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, industria ...

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with Andrea von Ramm (1928–99) and Sterling Jones, producing an extensive discography of

medieval music Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and followed by the Renaissance ...

. Binkley was effectively house artist for EMI

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in the first years of the EMI Reflexe series in Germany. The distinctive Dalíesque covers for the series were designed by Roberto Patelli (b. 1925) an Italian graphic artist resident in

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.Fabrice Fitch; Reflections on the Reflexe label in Early Music. OUP
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Binkley, Thomas 1931 births 1995 deaths American lutenists American performers of early music 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century American musicians Musicians from Cleveland 20th-century American musicologists Classical musicians from Ohio