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Paperback | 8 October 1990

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This book is about one of the most widely played and yet least understood of instruments, the recorder. Initially revived at the turn of the century, it now has an impressive modern repertoire, much of it using innovative instrumental techniques. The aim of the present work has been to make available to players, composers, teachers and interested non-specialists the sort of practical information they need in order to approach the modern recorder repertoire with understanding. History, music, technique and the leading figures in the field are discussed and described in an informal and readable style. The scope and content of the catalogue of contemporary compositions contained in the second part of the book will come as a surprise to many. Out of about 800 works currently in print Eve O'Kelly has made a selection of some 400, classified by instrumentation which will be of tremendous use to players and teachers at all levels. As a work of reference for the specialist, or as a companion for the amateur player, this book is invaluable.

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List of illustrations	p. vii
List of musical examples	p. viii
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Notational conventions	p. xiv
History, Music and Technique	p. 1
The revival	p. 1
Arnold Dolmetsch	p. 1
Other developments	p. 4
Rediscovery of recorder making	p. 5
Mass-production	p. 7
Design problems	p. 9
The contemporary recorder	p. 11
Personalities	p. 12
The recorder worldwide	p. 17
The recorder	p. 20
Derivation of the name	p. 20
Description of the instrument	p. 21
Musical characteristics	p. 25
Material	p. 26
Acoustics	p. 27
Recorder design	p. 28
The craft of recorder making	p. 32
Design innovations	p. 34
A 'modern' recorder?	p. 35
Conventional recorder music and the heritage of the Baroque	p. 37
Early compositions	p. 38
The 1950s and after	p. 44
The avant-garde	p. 50
Earliest examples	p. 51
New techniques	p. 57
Other significant compositions	p. 59
The theatrical element	p. 64
Focus on the performer	p. 66
Vocal/instrumental techniques	p. 70
Graphic scores	p. 72
Electro-acoustic music	p. 77
Modern techniques	p. 82
Non-standard fingerings	p. 84
Articulation	p. 91
Vibrato	p. 94
Special effects	p. 97
Conclusions	p. 116
The recorder in amateur and educational music	p. 116
Repertoire	p. 117
Compositions of stature	p. 118
The recorder now	p. 119
Settling down	p. 122
New ground	p. 124
Non-standard fingerings	p. 127
Select Catalogue of Twentieth-Century Recorder Music	p. 137
Index to catalogue	p. 166
Publishers and Music Information Centres	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 171
General index	p. 175
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