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Literary & Theatrical References

Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander

Introduction

This database contains quotations from English literature that refer to the recorder directly or indirectly. It covers the period 1100 to the present day and is drawn from poetry, theatre, libretto, short stories, novels and manuals on the training of singing birds and natural history. Where dates, titles, author names or other details are obscure, in error or missing I would appreciate further information. Operation of the database is (or should be) self-explanatory.

Readers are encouraged to make free use of the information presented here. However, extensive use or citation should be acknowledged in the usual way. The following format is suggested:

Lander, N.S. (1996-2008). Literary & Theatrical References to the Recorder. <http://www.recorderhomepage/quotes.html> Accessed 4 April 2008.

References

Ashbee, A. (1993). Records of English Court Music, VII (1485-1558). Scolar Press, Aldershot.
Ashbee, A., Lasocki, D, Holman, P. & Fiona K (1998). A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians, 1485-1717. Ashgate: Aldershot & Brookfield, VT.
Bergman, W. (1959). Henry Purcell's recorder music. The Recorder News, New Series 25: 9-11.
Boyd, M.C. (1962/1973). Elizabethan Music and Musical Criticism. 2nd edn. Reprint. Greenwood Press, Westport. ISBN 0-837-16805-8.
Bradley, R.J. (1992). Musical Life and Clulture at Savoy, 1420-1450. Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York.
Braggard, R. & F.J. de Hen (1967). Les Instruments de Musique dans l’art et l’Histoire. Belge d’Edition: Rhod it- Genese. English edn as Musical Instruments in Art & History, translated by B. Hopkins, Barrie & Rockliff, London.
Branagh, K., S. Lady & F. Darabont (1994). Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Classic Tale of Terror Reborn. Newmarket Press, London. This book contains the complete screenplay.
Burney, C. (1776). General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period. Printed for the author, and sold by T. Becket et al., London.
Carter, H.H. (1961/1980). Dictionary of Middle English Musical Terms. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. Reprinted (1980) by Kraus, New York.
Chappel, W. & Macfarren, Sir G.A. (1855). Popular Muisc of the Olden Time: a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes, illustrative of the national music of England ... ; also, a short account of the minstrels. Cramer Beale & Chappell, London.
Clopper, L.M. (1979). Chester. Records of Early English Drama. University of Toronto Press: Toronto.
Crust, L. (1917-1918). The Lumley Inventories. Walpole Society 6: 29
Davis, A. (1996). Purcell and the Recorder. The Recorder Magazine 16(1): 9-15.
Fleming, M. (2000). Some points arising from a survey of wills and inventories. Galpin Society Journal 53: 89-99.
Flood, W.H. Grattan (1905/1927). A History of Irish Music. Browne & Nolan, Dublin.
Gage, J. (1822). The History and Antiquities of Hengrave, in Suffolk. James Carpenter, Joseph Brooker & John Deck: London.
Galloway, D. (1984). Norwich 1540-1642. Records of Early English Drama. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
Griscom, R. & D. Lasocki (1995). The Recorder: A Guide to Writings about the Instrument for Players and Researchers. Garland Publishing, Hamden.
Hawkins, Sir. J. (1776). A General History of the Science and Practice of Music. London. Ed. Charles Cudworth, 2 vols, Dover, New York (1963).
HMSO (1895). Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII XIV/2. Her Majesty's Stationery Office: London).
Hunt, E.H. 1977. The Recorder and its Music. Edn 2. Eulenburg Books: London.
Hunt, E.H. 1981. Recorder. In Sadie, S. (ed) (1981). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol 15: Playford-Riedt. Macmillan, London.
Kilby, M. (2002). Curtal, Dulcian, Bajón: A History of the Precursor to the Bassoon. Published by the author: St Albans.
Klausner, D.N. ed. (1990). Herefordhsire, Worcestershire. Records of Early English Drama. University of Toronto Press: Toronto.
Lasocki, D. (1982). Professional recorder playing in England 1500-1750. I: 1500-1640. Early Music, January: 23-29.
Lasocki, D. (1982).Professional recorder playing in England 1500-1740. II: 1640-1740. Early Music, April: 183-191.
Lasocki, D. (1983). Professional Recorder Players in England, 1540-1740. Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Iowa. University Micorofilms International order no. 83-27401.
Lasocki, D. (1984). The recorder consort at the English Court 1540-1673. The American Recorder 25(3): 91-100; 25(4): 131-135.
Lasocki, D. (1984). The recorder in the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline theater. The American Recorder 25(1): 3-10.
Lasocki, D. & R. Prior (1995). The Bassanos: Venetian Musicians and Instrument Makers in England, 1531-1665. Scolar Press, Cambridge.
Lasocki, D. (2005), ed. Musicque de Joye. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Renaissance Flute and Recorder Consort, Utrecht 2003. STIMU Foundation for Historical Performance Practice, Utrecht.
Lasocki, D. (2006). The recorder in print: 2004. What's been written about the recorder in other publications around the world. American Recorder 47(3): 12-21.
Levin, L.S. (1981). The Recorder in the Music of Purcell and Handel. Ph.D. dissertation, International College, Los Angeles. OCLC #8966035.
Lipman, A. (1994). Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Sight & Sound 4 (12): 51-52.
Manifold, J. S. (1956). The Music in English Drama from Shakespeare to Purcell. Rockliff, London.
Martin, A. (1980). The recorder and 'bird music'. Recorder & Music 6(9): 261-263.
Marvin. B. (1995). Ruminations of a maker. Woodwind Quarterly 9: 84-85.
Myers, A.R. (1959). The Household of Edward IV: The Black Book and the Ordinance of 1478 Manchester.
Myers, A.r. (). The Black Book 215 (the 1478 Ordinance).
Newman, J. (1958). Handel's Use of the Recorder. The Recorder News, New Series 21: 7-12.
Newman, J. (1958). Handel's Use of the Recorder (continued). The Recorder News, New Series 22: 13-15. Brown, L. et al. (1996).
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Nottingham, S. (1999). Screening DNA: Exploring the Cinema-Genetics Interface. Accessed 14 June 2003.
Pattison, B. (1948). Music and Poetry of the English Resaissance. Methuen, London.
Pearsall, E.S. (1986). Tudor Court Musicians, 1485-1547: Their Number Status and Function. Ph.D. dissertation, New York University.
Polk, K. (2005). The recorder and recorder consorts in the fifteenth century. In Lasocki (2005: 17-28).
Robbins, P. (2003). Playing the Recorder Only Seems Easy: Recorders "Pian e Forte." Accessed 14 June 2003.
Rowland-Jones, A. (2000). Quantz dediddled. Recorder Magazine 20(2): 54-55.
Rowland-Jones, A. (2000). Einige Überlegungen zum Begriff Recorder [Some thoughts on the word recorder.] Tibia 25 (2): 89-97.
Rowland-Jones, A. (2003). Recorder Technique: Intermediate to Advanced. 3rd Edition, Considerably Revised. Ruxbury Publications, Hebden Bridge.
Schafer, E.D. (1998). Recorders in children's literature. American Recorder 39(1): 15-19, 38-39.
Simpson, A. (1995). The orchestral recorder. In Thomson & Rowland Jones (1995: 91-106).
Skins, R. (1985). The recorder as image-maker. Recorder & Music 8(8): 234-236.
Skins, R. (1996). The recorder in literature. Recorder & Music 16(4): 154.
Sternfeld, F.W. (1967). Music in Shakespearean Tragedy, 2nd edn. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London; Dover Publications, New York.
Taylor, Andrew (1997). The harper Richard Sheale and the Stanley Poem. Leeds Studies in English, New Series 28: 1-23.
Unwin, R. (1987). An English writer about music: James Talbot 1664-1708. Galpin Society Journal 40: 53-72.
Walls, P. (1996). Music of the English Courtly Masque 1604-1640), Clarendon, Oxford. ISBN 0198161417.
Ward, J.M. (1979-1981). "Sprightly and Cheerful Musick": Notes on the citterns, gittern & guitar in 16th and 17th-Century England. Lute Society Journal 21 & 24.
Warren, W. (1968). Music at Nonesuch. Musical Quarterly 55 (1): 50.
Wasson,J.M. ed. (1986). Devon. Records of Early English Drama. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Buffalo & London.
Watson, F. (1898). The Grammar Schools to 1660.
Welch, C. 1911. Six Lectures on the Recorder and other Flutes in Relation to Literature. Oxford University Press: London. Revised 1961, loc. cit.
Welch, C. 1911/1961. Lectures on the Recorder. Oxford University Press: London.
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Wind, T. (2004). Corydon and Amarillis: recorder echoes in a Dutch play of 1634. Jacob van Eyck Quarterly: October 2004.
Winters, R. (2004). Letters to the Editor: Recorder symbolism in Iris Murdoch's novel The Sea, The Sea, pub. 1978. Recorder Magazine 24(1): 29.