And now the chapel's silver bell you hear,
That summons you to all the pride of prayer:
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,
Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven.
On painted ceiling you devoutly stare,
Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre,
On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie,
And bring all paradise before the eye,' etc.
Si lon voit rauerdir a mode que je chanteNotes by Anthony Rowland-Jones (pers. comm., 1999).
Les feuilles et les fleurs de mon beau chaplet
Doit on pas confesser quil est fait d'amaranthe
Et que Zephir souspire en mon doux flajolet.
Mr Coenraad Rÿkel, first-rate recorder-maker, nephew of R[ichard] Haka with whom he has worked for the past 25 years and has been in partnership with for 8 years, making and selling all sorts of wind instruments, living in the same house as his uncle, which can be found in the Spuy between the old Lutheran Church and Calverstraat, at the sign of the golden bass recorder in Amsterdam."The plate shows a bass recorder, baroque style with butterfly key and bocal, the head and body carrying the maker's mark RYKEL, and four alto recorders, baroque style, two in the centre of the plate and two in swags on either side, three of which show six fingers holes in line. At the bottom centre are two soprano duct-flutes (crossed and tied with ribbon) in baroque style but showing only four finger-holes in the lower part of the body. The two swags include nine additional instruments, mostly partly hidden, but in recorder design style. On none of these is more than five finger-holes visible.
"Langwill (loc. cit.) refers this card to 'about 1710' (which shows that Lux was still active then). Rijkel was born in 1667 and became a pupil of his uncle Richard Haka in 1679. Adding the more than 25 years working with Haka would give a data ca 1705 rather than 1710. There are two particular points of interest:
"The trade plate shows that Hotteterre-style 'late baroque' recorders were made in Rykel's workshop; possibly also in Haka's before him, suggesting that despite the frequent appearance in Dutch painting of the hand fluyt type of recorder the Hotteterre style instrument could have been well established ca 1700 in Amsterdam.
"Pride of place – including in the workshop's street sign – was given to the bass recorder. While bass recorders appear on various occasions in Lully's music, what Dutch music for them was available ca 1705? Perhaps they were preferred for solo playing by some amateurs. There is some evidence that Dutch domestic music-making included vocal music, including religious music, which would have required bass parts when played on recorders
"Richard Haka's parents were married at St Martin in the Fields Church, London. His name, 'Hakay', changed to Haka when he emigrated. Rÿkel was also of English origin" (Rowland-Jones, loc. cit.)
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