The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder
The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder
Anthony Rowland-Jones
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USDThis is the first book to offer a complete introduction to the recorder. Eight contributors from four different countries write on topics such as the recorder and its music through the centuries, the recorder as orchestral instrument, the professional recorder player through history and today, and the phenomenon of the recorder revival. The Companion also contains basic reference material previously unavailable in one volume. A special feature is the rich collection of illustrations that provide a history of the instrument. The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder will be of interest to performers and students as well as to music enthusiasts.
- First book to provide accessible history, performance information, reference material for the student, teacher and amateur
- History of the recorder documented in the numerous illustrations, some rare
- Contributors are major performers and specialists
Reviews & endorsements
"It is probably the best, and certainly the most current, book-length, general survey of the instrument....The chapters make for excellent reading....I highly recommend The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder....The writing is concise and scholarly, providing thoughtful summaries by seven contributors who have spent much of their lives working in recorder research. This, combined with many wonderful illustrations, makes The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder an enjoyable and worthy addition (or beginning) to your music library." Mark Davenport, American Recorder
Product details
October 1995Paperback
9780521358163
264 pages
247 × 175 × 23 mm
0.474kg
51 b/w illus. 10 music examples
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Table of Contents
- Foreword Daniel Brüggen
- 1. The recorder in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Howard Mayer Brown
- 2. The recorder's Medieval and Renaissance repertoire: a commentary Anthony Rowland-Jones
- 3. The baroque recorder sonata Anthony Rowland-Jones
- 4. The baroque chamber music repertoire Anthony Rowland-Jones
- 5. The orchestral recorder Adrienne Simpson
- 6. The eighteenth-century recorder concerto David Lasocki and Anthony Rowland-Jones
- 7. Instruction books and methods for the recorder c.1500 to the present day David Lasocki
- 8. The recorder revival i: the friendship of Bernard Shaw and Arnold Dolmetsch J. M. Thomson
- 9. The recorder revival ii: the twentieth century and its repertoire Eve O'Kelly
- 10. Professional recorder players i: pre-twentieth century David Lasocki
- 11. Professional recorder players (and their instruments) ii: the twentieth century Eve O'Kelly
- 12. The recorder in education Eve O'Kelly
- 13. Facsimiles and editing Clifford Bartlett
- 14. Guide to further reading Anthony Rowland-Jones.
