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A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition, The Recorder
remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about
this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone, takes
account of the publishing activity of the years since its first
publication, and still follows the original organization.
Compiled by scholars with unrivalled knowledge of the sources, this
dictionary provides biographies of all musicians and instrument
makers employed by the English court from 1485-1714. A number of
the musicians featured here have never previously received a
dictionary entry. Coverage of these minor figures helps to flesh
out the picture of musical life in the court in a way which
individual studies of more major composers cannot. In addition to
basic biographical details, entries feature information on:
appointments; probate material; family background; heraldry;
signatures and holograph documents; subscriptions to books;
bibliographic references. A finding-list of variant names, details
of the succession of court places assumed by musicians and an index
of subjects and place names completes this comprehensive reference
work.
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The Recorder (Hardcover)
David Lasocki, Robert Ehrlich, Nikolaj Tarasov, Michala Petri
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The fascinating story of a hugely popular instrument, detailing its
rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the present The
recorder is perhaps best known today for its educational role.
Although it is frequently regarded as a stepping-stone on the path
toward higher musical pursuits, this role is just one recent facet
of the recorder's fascinating history-which spans professional and
amateur music-making since the Middle Ages. In this new addition to
the Yale Musical Instrument Series, David Lasocki and Robert
Ehrlich trace the evolution of the recorder. Emerging from a
variety of flutes played by fourteenth-century soldiers, shepherds,
and watchmen, the recorder swiftly became an artistic instrument
for courtly and city minstrels. Featured in music by the greatest
Baroque composers, including Bach and Handel, in the twentieth
century it played a vital role in the Early Music Revival and
achieved international popularity and notoriety in mass education.
Overall, Lasocki and Ehrlich make a case for the recorder being
surprisingly present, and significant, throughout Western music
history.
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