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Music Publishers & Retailers

Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander

Publishers

This is an interactive database of publishers of music featuring the recorder. Inevitably, some of the contact details are likely to be outdated; in some cases they are unknown. I would very much appreciate any corrections or additions you think necessary. I may be contacted by email.

A list of publishers of recorder music may be found in:

Usher, M. (1993). The Useful Address Book. Society of Recorder Players, Ipswitch.

An extensive general listing of publishers of early music and books may be found in:

Renshaw, M. (1996). The Early Music Yearbook 1996. National Early Music Association, Cambridge.

An even more exhaustive listing is available in the British Music Yearbook.

Comprehensive and up-to-date contact details of music publishers and the imprints they represent in the UK are available from the Music Publishers Association, 18/20 York Buildings, London WC2N 6JU, UK, tel. +44 (0)207 839 7779, fax +44 (0)207 839 7776, email info@mponline.org.uk

Similarly, details of publishers and imprints in the USA are available from the Music Publishers Association of the United States, PMB 246, 1562 First Avenue, New York NY 10028, USA, tel./fax +1 (212) 327-4044.

For up-to-date contact details of music publishers in general see the Music Publishers maintained by William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.

In many cases unpublished scores of contemporary music for recorders may be borrowed, hired or purchased from the various national music centres. Pointers to those on-line are provided at the Recorder Home Page site at Research: Music Centres.

Comprehensive general online catalogues of music in print can be found at emusicquest, namely their Music-in-Print Series (subscription necessary).

The most comprehensive catalog yet of recorder music published in the 20th century is that compiled by Claude Letteron (1989). It includes original compositions, arrangements, and editions. Extensive lists of music for recorder have been published by RIM (1988, 1992, 1994). A catalogue of microtonal music for recorder can be found at The Microtonal Recorder Page. An extensive (but by now rather dated) catalogue of 20th-century works for recorder is given by O'Kelly (1990).

In July 1998 The Stichting Blokfluit (Netherlands) – The Recorder Foundation, from Walter van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts – launched an on-line catalogue of contemporary music for recorder. Registration and payment is required for full access. This ambitious project aims to compile a comprehensive information base of 20th-century recorder music with data logged in some 40 fields.

Catalogues of modern music for recorder by Argentinian, Australian, and Japanese composers, and partial lists of contemporary American, Canadian, Danish, Icelandic, Irish, New Zealand, Norwegian,Scottish, Spanish, Swedish and Swiss music for the recorder can be found at Recorder Repertoire.

Retailers

Many publishers are owners, agents or stockists of other imprints, a situation which is in constant flux.

Details of a number of music retailers who regularly stock recorder music can be found in the Instrument & Music Retailers database. The entries therein are necessarily very selective – there are thousands of music shops worldwide which stock a few recorders and several items of recorder music or can provide these on request. However, I would very much welcome corrections or additions you think necessary. I may be contacted by email.

Secondhand Dealers

Details of a number of dealers specialising in out-of-print, antiquarian and second-hand sheet music included in the Retailers Database (see above) can be retrieved by entering "second-hand sheet music" in the Notes field of the query form.