The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder

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.

- 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


CONTENIDO:

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)