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Agricola, Martin. 1545. Musica instrumentalis deudsch, darin das Fundament und Application der Finger und Zungen, auff mancherley Pfeiffen als Flöten, Kromphörner, Zincken, Bomhard, Schalmeyen, Sackpfeiffen und Schweitzerpfeiffen etc. Darzu von dreierley Geigen, als welschen, polisschen und kleinen Handgeiglein und wie die Griffe drauff auch auff Lauten künstlich abgemessen werden, item vom Monochordo, auch von künstlicher Stimmung der Orgelpfeiffen und Zimbeln, etc. Kürtzlich begriffen, und für unsere Schulkinder und andere gmeine Senger aufs verstendlichst und einfeltigst jtzund newlich zugericht [A German instrumental music, containing the basic rules and application of the fingers and tongue on many kinds of wind instruments, such as recorders, crumhorns, cornetts, pommer, shawms, bagpipes, and Swiss flutes, etc. In addition, concerning three kinds of fiddles, the Italian, the Polish, and the little hand-fiddle, and how the finger positions may be skillfully gauged on them, and also on the lute. Also concerning the monochord and the skillful tuning of organ pipes and small bells, etc. Briefly summarized and now newly arranged for our school children and other beginning singers in the most understandable and simple way]. Wittenberg: George Rhau.
Agricola, Martin. 1529. Musica instrumentalis deudsch ynn welcher begriffen ist, wie man nach dem gesange auff mancherley Pfeiffen lernen sol, Auch wie auff die Orgel, Harffen, Lauten, Geigen, und allerley Instrument und Seytenspiel, nach der rechtgegrüdten Tabelthur sey abzusetsen [A German Instrumental music, in which is Contained: How to Learn to Play Many Kinds of Wind Instruments from Vocal Notation, and also How to Set Music into the Appropriate Tablature for the Organ, Harp, Lute, Fiddle, and all Kinds of Keyboard and String Instruments]. Wittenberg: George Rhau. http://imslp.org/wiki/Musica_instrumentalis_Deudsch_(Agricola,_Martin)
Anonymous. 1510. “Anleitung zum Blockflötenspiel: Introductio Geschriben uf Pfifen.” Basel. Ms. F X 38. Universitätsbibliothek. http://www.e-manuscripta.ch/doi/10.7891/e-manuscripta-2686
Galfridus Anglicus. 1449. Promptorium Parvulorum. Winchester.
Aventure Ensemble (2016). Filling the gap, Eeen 15-eeuwse reconstructie in concert. https://fillingthegapreconstructionproject.wordpress.com/
Baines, Anthony. 1950. “Fifteenth-Century Instruments in Tinctoris’s De Inventione et Usu Musicae.” Galpin Society Journal 3: 30.
Ballester, Jordi. 2000. “La flauta dulce en la antigua corona de Aragón a finales del siglo XIV: Nuevas aportaciones [The Recorder in the Ancient Kingdom of Aragón at the End of the Fourteenth Century: New Contributions].” Revista de flauta de pico 15: 9–12.
Ballester, Jordi. 2000. “El pastor músico y la flauta dulce en la pintura catalana y valenciana del siglo XV [The Shepherd Musician and the Recorder in the Catalan and Valencian Painting of the Fifteenth Century].” Revista de flauta de pico 16: 11–15.
Bartram, James F. jnr. 1976. “Some Notes on the History of the Recorder.” Historical Woodwinds, PO Box 371, Newport, R.I. 02840.
Bergmann, Walter. 1965. “When a Treble Really WAS a Treble.” Recorder and Music Magazine 1 (19): 313.
Bergstrøm, Ture. 2020. “A Late Medieval Recorder from Copenhagen.” Galpin Society Journal 73: 220, 240, 244.
Blusiewicz, K. 2011. “Sprawozdanie z ratowniczych badań archeologicznych przeprowadzonych na działce miejskiej nr 123 w Pucku we wrześniu 2010 roku oraz lipcu i sierpniu 2011 roku [Report on the archaeological research carried out at the municipal plot No. 123 in Puck in September 2010 and July and August 2011].” Maszynopis w Archiwum Zakładu Archeologii Późnego Średniowiecza i Czasów Nowożytnych Instytutu Archeologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego [Typescript in the Archives of the Department of Archeology of the late Middle Ages and modern times, Institute of Archeology, University of Warsaw].
Boragno, Pierre. 1998. “Flûtes du moyen age: éléments de recherche [Members of the Flute Family of the Middle Ages: Elements of Research].” Les cahiers de musique médiévale 2: 6–20.
Bornstein, Andrea. 1987. Gli strumenti musicali del Rinascimento [Musical instruments of the Renaissance]. Padova: Franco Muzzio.
Bouterse, Jan. 1995. “Early Dutch Fipple Flutes, with Emphasis on the Seventeenth Century and Jacob van Eyck.” In The Recorder in the 17th Century: Proceedings of the International Recorder Symposium Utrecht, 27-30 August 1993, edited by David Lasocki, 77–90. Utrecht: STIMU.
Bouterse, Jan. 1998. “Dordrecht sopraan blokfluit (cursus aankondiging) [Dordrecht Soprano Recorder (course announcement)].” Bouwbrief 88: 20–22.
Bowles, Edmund A. 1983. La pratique musicale au moyen âge/Musical Performance in the late Middle Ages. Geneva: Minkoff.
Bowles, Edmund A. 1977. Musikgeschichte in Bildern: Bd 3, Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance; Lfg 8: Musikleben im 15. Jahrundert. Edited by Werner Bachmann and Heinrich Besseler. Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik.
Brade, Christine. 1975. Die mittelalter Kernspaldloten Mittel- und Nordeuropas: Ein Beitrag zur prähistorischer und zur Typologie mittelalterlicher Kernspaltjloten [Medieval Duct Flutes of Central and Northern Europe: a Contribution to the Typology of Prehistoric and Medieval Duct Flutes]. Vol. 14. Göttinger Schriften zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte. Neumunster: Karl Wachholtz.
Braggard, Roger, and Ferdinand J. de Hen. 1967. Musical Instruments in Art and History. Translated by B. Hopkins. London: Barrie & Rockliff.
Brown, Howard Mayer. 1984–1988. “Catalogus: A Corpus of Trecento Pictures with Musical Subject Matter. Part 1, Instalment 1.” Imago Musicae, 1: 189–243 (1984); 2: 179–281 (1985); 3: 103–87 (1986); 5: 167–241 (1988).
Brown, Howard Mayer. 1989. “Trecento Angels and the Instruments They Play.” In Modern Music Scholarship, edited by Edward Olleson, 112–40. Stoksfield, England: Oriel.
Brown, Adrian. 2005. “Die ‘Ganassiflöte’ – Tatsachen und Legenden [The ‘Ganassi Recorder’ – Facts and Fiction].” Tibia 30 (4): 571–84.
Brown, Adrian. 2006. “The Ganassi Recorder: Separating Fact from Fiction.” American Recorder 47 (5): 11–18.
Brown, Howard Mayer. 1995. “The Recorder in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder, edited by John Mansfield Thomson and Anthony Rowland-Jones, 1–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Brown, Howard Mayer, and Joan Lascalle. 1972. Musical Iconography: A Manual for Cataloguing Musical Subjects in Western Art before 1800. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Cardano, Girolamo [Gerolamo, Geronimo]. 1546. “De musica [On music].” Rome. Ms 5850. Vatican. http://filolinux.dipafilo.unimi.it/cardano/testi/opera.html
Carlick, Brian. 1975. “The Carlick Dordrecht Recorder.”
Carter, Henry H. 1961. Dictionary of Middle English Musical Terms. Indiana University Humanities Series 45. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Castellani, Marcello. 1997. “I flauti nell’inventario di Lorenzo il Magnifico (1492) [Flutes in the Inventory of Lorenzo the Magnificent (1492)].” In Sine musica nulla vita: Festschrift Hermann Moeck zum 75. Geburtstag am 16. September 1997, edited by Nikolaus Delius, 185–91. Celle: Moeck Verlag und Instrumentenwerk.
Castellani, Michèle. 2000. “Encontradas flautas de hueso en China en una excavación del neolítico [Bone flutes found in China in a Neolithic Excavation].” Revista de flauta de pico 15: 38.
Chase, Philip G., and April Nowell. 1998. “Taphonomy of a Suggested Middle Paleolithic Bone Flute from Slovenia.” Current Anthropology 39: 549–53. http://www.academia.edu/290590/Taphonomy_of_a_Suggested_Middle_Paleolithic_Bone_Flute_From_Slovenia
Cook, Gary. 1997. “Medieval Recorder.” The Woodturner 1 (4): 50–55.
Corran, H.S. 1971. “The First European Recorder Player?” Recorder and Music Magazine 3 (12): 482.
Crane, Frederick. 1972. Extant Medieval Instruments, a Provisional Catalogue by Types. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Delius, Nikolaus, ed. 1997. Sine musica nulla vita: Festschrift Hermann Moeck zum 75. Geburtstag am 16. September 1997 [Without Music, No Life: Festschrift for Hermann Moeck on his 75th Birthday on 16 September 1997]. Celle: Moeck Verlag und Instrumentenwerk.
Diedrich, Cajus G. 2015. “‘Neanderthal Bone Flutes’: Simply Products of Ice Age Spotted Hyena Scavenging Activities on Cave Bear Cubs in European Cave Bear Dens.” Royal Society Open Science. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140022
Doht, Julia. 2006. “Die Göttinger Blockflöte [The Götingen Recorder].” Tibia 31 (2): 105–7.
D’Accone, Frank A. 1996. The Civic Muse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,.
Ehlich, Liane, and Jörg Fielder. 2003. “‘Introductio gschriben uf Pfifen’: Eine Basler Quelle zum Blockflötenspied c. 1510.” Glareana: Nachricten der Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente 52 (2): 44–63. http://www.gefam.ch/uploads/Glareana_52_2003_2.pdf
Favà Monllau, Cèsar. 2011. “La Mare de Déu dels Àngels de Tortosa i el seu pas per l’àmbit privat [Our Lady of the Angels Tortosa and its Journey From the Private Sector].” Porticvm, Revista d´Estudis Medievals 2: 68–89. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=3817519
Fink, Robert. 1997. “Neanderthal Flute: Oldest Musical Instrument’s 4 Notes Matches 4 of Do, Re, Mi Scale. Musicological Analysis.” Origin of Music. http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm
Fitzpatrick, Horace. 1975. “The Medieval Recorder.” Early Music 3 (4): 361–64.
Flood, W.H. Grattan. 1905. A History of Irish Music. Dublin: Browne & Nolan. http://www.libraryireland.com/IrishMusic/Contents.php
Fountain, Henry. 1999. “After 9,000 Years, Oldest Playable Flute Is Heard Again.” New York Times on the Web. September 28. http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/092899sci-archeology-china.html
Galpin, Francis W. 1965. Old English Instruments of Music: Their History and Character. 4th edn, rev. with supplemental notes by Thurstan Dart. London: Methuen & New York: Barnes & Noble.
Ganassi, Silvestro. 1535. Opera intitulata Fontegara. La quale i[n]segna a sonare de flauto cho[n] tutta l’arte opportuna a esso i[n]strumento massime il diminuire il quale sarà utile ad ogni i[n]strumento di fiato et chorde: et a[n]chora a chi si dileta di canto. [Work entitled “Fontegara”, which Instructs in Playing the Recorder with all the Proper Art of this Instrument, Especially the Creation of Diminutions that will be Useful for all Wind and String Instruments as well as those who Practice Singing]. Venice: Silvestro Ganassi. http://imslp.org/wiki/Opera_Intitulata_Fontegara_(Ganassi,_Sylvestro)
Godwin, Joscelyn. 1977. “Main Divers Acors.” Early Music 5 (2): 148–59.
Gołembnik, Andrzej. 2000. “Płock we wczesnym średniowieczu [Płock in the Early Middle Ages].” In Historia Płocka w ziemi zapisana. Podsumowanie wyników dotychczasowych badań archeologicznych [History of Płock written in the ground. Summary results of previous archaeological research], edited by Andrzej Gołembnik, 13–48. Płock: Stowarzyszenie “Starówka Płocka.”
Griscom, Richard W., and David R.G. Lasocki. 2013. The Recorder: A Research and Information Guide. 3rd ed. Routledge Music Bibliographies. New York, London: Routledge.
Grunfeld, Frederick V. 1974. Music. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. New York: Newsweek Books.
Hakelberg, Dietrich. 2002. “Was von einer ‘Klangschaft’ blieb? [What Remains of a Soundscape?].” Archäologie in Deutschland – Das Magazin 4: 31–32.
Hakelberg, Dietrich. 1995. “Some Recent Archaeo-Organological Finds in Germany.” Galpin Society Journal 48: 3–12.
Hakelberg, Dietrich, and Betty Arndt. 1994. “Eine mittelalterliche Blockflöte aus Göttingen. Mit einem einleitenden Beitrag von Betty Arndt.” Göttinger Jahrbuch, hrsg. vom Geschichtsverein für Göttingen und Umgebung e.V. 42 (S): 95–102.
Hamer, Mick. 1996. “Haunting Tunes from Ghostly Players.” New Scientist 151 (2048): 12.
Hanchet, John. n.d. “Early Recorders [Advertising Brochure].”
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1966. “Tradition and Innovation in Instrumental Usage 1100-1450.” In Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music. A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese, edited by Jan Larue. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Hechler, Ilse. 1997. “‘Von Vogel- und Flötenstimmen’ [Of Bird and Flute Voices].” In Sine musica nulla vita: Festschrift Hermann Moeck zum 75. Geburtstag am 16. September 1997 [Without music, no life: Festschrift for Hermann Moeck on his seventy-fifth birthday on 16 September 1997], edited by Nikolaus Delius, 119–31. Celle: Moeck Verlag.
Hendriksz., Tadek R. 2016. “CT-scan van de Dordtse blokfluit: niet omdat het moet, maar omdat het kan! [CT scan of the recorder from Dordrecht: not because you have to, but because you can!].” Filling the gap: een 15e-eeuwse reconstructie in concert. 2016. https://fillingthegapreconstructionproject.wordpress.com/dordrecht-blokfluit/ct-scan-dordrecht-blokfluit/.
Higbee, Dale. 1965. “The Etymology of ‘recorder.’” Galpin Society Journal 18: 128.
Hijmans, Ita. 2015. “Instrument Onbekend. De Reconstructievan Een Blokfluitconsort Uit Het Midden van Devijf- Tiende Eeuw.” Madoc, Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 29 (4): 229-240.
Hijmans, Ita. 2015. “Instrument onbekend. De reconstructievan een blokfluitconsort uit het midden van devijf- tiende eeuw [Unknown instrument. The reconstruction of a recorder consort from the middle of the fifth century].” Madoc 29 (4): 230–40.
Hijmans, Ita. 2016. “Dordrecht-blokfluit.” Filling the gap: een 15e-eeuwse reconstructie in concert. 2016. https://fillingthegapreconstructionproject.wordpress.com/dordrecht-blokfluit/
Hijmans, Ita. 2016. “Filling the Gap, Eeen 15-Eeuwse Reconstructie in Concert.” 2016. https://fillingthegapreconstructionproject.wordpress.com/.
Homo-Lechner, Catherine. 1996. Sons et instruments de musique au moyen age: archéologie musicale dans l’Europe du VIIe au XIVe siècles [Sounds and Musical Instruments of the Middle Ages: Musical Archaeology in Europe from the 7th to the 14th Century]. Collection des Hesperides. Paris: Editions Errance.
Homo-Lechner, Catherine. 1987. “Antike und mittelalterliche Flöten aus archäologischen Entdeckungen.” Tibia, no. 1: 321–25. http://www.moeck.com/uploads/tx_moecktables/1987-1.pdf
Hunt, Edgar H. 1981. “Recorder.” In The New GROVE Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley J. Sadie. Vol. 15. London: Playford-Riedt. Macmillan.
Hunt, Edgar H. (1962) 2002. The Recorder and Its Music. Revised and enlarged. Hebden Bridge: Peacock Press.
Ilarianov, Eugene, and Nik Tarasov. n.d. “Mastering the ‘Chiff.’” Windkanal: Das Forum Für Die Blockflöte. http://www.windkanal.de/de/englisches-material/135
Ivić, Pavle, ed. 1995. The History of Serbian Culture. Edgware, Middlesex: Porthill Publ.
Kalender, H.C. Willi A., Achim Langenbucher, Michael Meyer, Thomas Sauer, Andreas Spindler, and Wolfgang Spindler. 2009. “Vermessung mittelalterlicher Musikinstrumente. Hand-out zur Pressevorstellung. Donnerstag, 9. April 2009, 10.30. Bibliothek des Institut für Medizinische Physik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Survey of Medieval Musical Instruments. Hand-out for Press Launch. Thursday, April 9, 2009, at 10.30. Library of the Institute of Medical Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg].” Capella Antiqua Bambergensis. April 9, 2009. http://www.capella-antiqua.de/01-main-g/intro/media/Handout.pdf.
Kirnbauer, Martin. 2002. “Musikzeugnisse des Mittelalter [Musical Finds from the Middle Ages].” Archäologie in Deutschland 6: 54–55.
Kirnbauer, Martin, and Crawford Young. 2001. “Musikinstrumente aus einer mittelalterlichen Latrine.” Institutsbeilage der Schola Cantorum.
Kmetz, John. 1988. “Katalog der Musikhandschriften des 16. Jahunderts : quellenkritische und historische Untersuchung [Catalogue of music manuscripts of the 16th century: a critical and historical survey].” In Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Basel, 322–24. Basel: Universitätsbibliothek Basel.
Kunkel, Otto. 1953. “Ein mittelalterlicher Brunnenschacht zwischen Dom und Neumünster in Würzburg [A medieval well shaft between the Dom and Neumünster in Würzburg].” In Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst, 5:293–309. Würzburg: Buchdruckerei Karl Hart.
Lander, Nicholas S. 1996–2016. “Literary References.” Recorder Home Page. https://www.recorderhomepage.net/instruments/a-memento-the-medieval-recorder/
Lander, Nicholas S. 1996–2016. “Recorder Iconography.” Recorder Home Page. https://www.recorderhomepage.net/recorder-iconography/
Lander, Nicholas S. 1996–2016. “A Memento: The Medieval Recorder.” Recorder Home Page. https://www.recorderhomepage.net/instruments/a-memento-the-medieval-recorder/
Larue, Jan. 1996. Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music. A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese. Harmonologia: Studies in Music Theory. Paris: Editions Errance.
Lasocki, David R.G. 2005. “The Recorder in Print: 2005. What Has Been Written about the Recorder in Other Publications around the World.” American Recorder May: 32–45.
Lasocki, David R.G. 2000. “The Recorder in Print: 1998. What Has Been Written about the Recorder in Other Publications around the World.” American Recorder 41 (3): 9–16, 30, 36–37.
Lasocki, David R.G. 2012. The Recorder and Other Members of the Flute Family in Writings from 1100 to 1500. Portland, Oregon: Instant Harmony. http://www.instantharmony.net/Music/eb10.php
Lasocki, David R.G. 2005. “A Listing of Inventories and Purchases of Flutes, Recorders, Flageolets, and Tabor Pipes, 1388-1630.” In Musique de Joye: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Renassiance Flute and Recorder Consort. Utrecht 2003, 419–511. Utrecht: STIMU Stichting Muziekhistorische Uitvoeringspraktijk (Foundation for Historical Performance Practice). http://www.instantharmony.net/Music/inventoriesto1630.pdf
Lasocki, David R.G. 2011. “Researching the Recorder in the Middle Ages.” American Recorder 52 (1): 15–19. http://www.instantharmony.net/Music/AR_Lasocki_MiddleAges.pdf
Lasocki, David R.G. 2012. “What We Have Learned about the Recorder in the Last 50 Years.” American Recorder 53 (5): 18–27. http://www.instantharmony.net/Music/Recorder50Yrs_proof2.pdf
Lasocki, David R.G., ed. 1995. The Recorder in the 17th Century. Proceedings of the International Recorder Symposium. Utrecht, 27-30 August 1993. Utrecht: STIMU Foundation for Historical Performance Practice.
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