The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder

This is the first book to offer a complete introduction to the recorder.

John Mansfield Thomson (Edited by), Anthony Rowland-Jones (Edited by)

9780521358163, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 October 1995

264 pages, 51 b/w illus. 10 music examples
24.7 x 17.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.474 kg

'The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder is one of those marvellous books that you do not have to read at one sitting … if you do not yet own a copy - it is about time you did!'. Early Music and Recorders Journal

This is the first book to offer a complete introduction to the recorder. Seven 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 found in the rich collection of illustrations which in themselves provide a history of the instrument.

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.

Subject Areas: Wind instruments [AVRN]