Recorder Home Page
Repertoire
Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander
Historic Repertoire
- Repertoire, from The Recorder: Instrument of Torture or Instrument of Music? by Nicholas Lander (Australia)
- The Stichting
Blokfluit (Netherlands) – The Recorder Foundation, from Walter
van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts, maintains an on-line catalogue of
contemporary music for recorder, to which access is now free
- Recorder Music Center, Regis University in Denver (USA) – this recently established center will be a very large resource for recorder music, both as an archive and also as a fully catalogued lending library. To date, they have about 5,000 recorder pieces. As they continue to get duplicate copies of materials, their lending catalogue will increase. They have also started a recorder instrument collection. The Center will also house the personal collections of American recorder players, composers, and historians (such as Erich Katz and David Goldstein). The Center is also the official repository for the American Recorder Society materials.
- Répertoire français de l'époque
baroque, comprehensive listing, with the original title and
references to modern editions, from Laurence Pottier (in
French)
- Catalogue of Historical Recorder Repetoire, online database from Stichting Blokfluit (Netherlands)
- Bicinium, Didactic Two-Part Compositions of the Renaissance and the Baroque, from Andrea Bornstein (Italy). Composers, Titles, Sources, Sound Files, Printable Scores (in English and Italian). Highly recommended!
- Flauto Dolce, from Andrea Bornstein (Italy). Original Music and Arrangments for Recorder. Composers, Titles, Sources, Sound Files, Printable Scores (in English and Italian). Highly recommended!
Modern Repertoire
- Repertoire, from The Recorder: Instrument of Torture or Instrument of Music? by Nicholas Lander (Australia)
- The Stichting
Blokfluit (Netherlands) -- The Recorder Foundation, from Walter
van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts, maintains an on-line catalogue of
contemporary music for recorder, Note that registration and payment
is required for full access
- Recorder Music Center, Regis University in Denver (USA) – this recently established center will be a very large resource for recorder music, both as an archive and also as a fully catalogued lending library. To date, they have about 5,000 recorder pieces. As they continue to get duplicate copies of materials, their lending catalogue will increase. They have also started a recorder instrument collection. The Center will also house the personal collections of American recorder players, composers, and historians (such as Erich Katz and David Goldstein). The Center is also the official repository for the American Recorder Society materials.
- The Dolmetsch Legacy: The Recorder Music Composed for Carl Dolmetsch, 1939-1989, based on a talk given by Ross Winters at the ERTA-UK Conference in May 1997.
- American Music for Recorder, scores held by the American
Music Centre
- Argentinian Music for
Recorder, a comprehensive catalogue, from Gonzalo Ariel Juan
(in Spanish)
- Australian Music for Recorder, a comprehensive catalogue
including scores held by the Australian Music Centre, from Nicholas
Lander (Australia)
- Canadian Music for Recorder, scores held by the Canadian
Music Centre
- Contemporary Music Czech for Recorders, includes MIDI files
- Danish Music for Recorder, scores and recordings held by the Danish Music Information Centre
- Répertoire français de l'époque
baroque, comprehensive listing, with the original title and
references to modern editions, from Laurence Pottier (in
French)
- Icelandic Music for
Recorder, scores held by the Íslensk
Tónverkamidstöd (Icelandic Music Information
Centre)
- Irish Music for Recorder, scores held by the
Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
- Israeli Recorder Music, from Israeli Music Institute
- Israeli Recorder Music, from Zamir
- An Almost Complete Catalogue of Israeli Recorder Music, from Drora Bruck (Israel)
- Japanese Music for Recorder, from Minoru Yoshizawa
- Hedendaagse Japanse Blokfluitmuziek [About contemporary
Japanese recorder music] (in Dutch), by Hein Zegers
(Netherlands)
- New Zealand Music for
Recorder, including scores held by the Centre for New Zealand
Music
- Norwegian Music for Recorder, scores held by Norsk Musikkinformasjon (Norwegian Music Information Centre)
- Scottish Music for Recorders, scores held by the
Scottish Music Information Centre
- South African Music for Recorders, by Karin Maritz
- Listado
de obras para flauta dulce de compositores Españoles,
catalogue of music for recorder by Spanish composers, from
Bárbara Sela Andrés (Spain)
- Swedish Music for Recorders, scores held by Svensk Music (Swedish Music Information Centre)
- Swiss Music for Recorders, from Swiss Music Information Centre
Music in limited range
Original Prints and Manuscripts Online
- Brandenburg Concerto 4 in G major BWV 1049 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Facsimile of original manuscript
- XII Suonate a Flauto Solo … by Bendedetto Marcello, Op. 2.
- Six Sonatas or Solos for the Flute … by Johann Christoph Pepusch. Original printed score & parts.
- A Second Set of Solos for the Flute … by Johann Christoph Pepusch. Original printed score & parts.
- III Trios a 3 Flauti Traversien Dell Sigr Scherre [sic.] …. A manuscript from the Giedde Collection, Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark – PDF file. These sonatas were printed in Amsterdam in 1760 under the title 2 sonate à 3 flauti ò 3 Violini da Scherer and in the same year in London as Op. 5 of Rozelli, possibly a pseudonum used by Johann Scherer since Italian composers were popular in London at that time.
- Harmonischer Gottes-Dient … (1725). Church cantatas for voice and recorder by Georg Philippe Telemann. From the Giede Collection, Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark – PDF files
- Sonates sans Basse à deux Flûtes traverses, ou à deux Violons, ou à deux Flûtes à bec … par Georg Philippe Telemann (1727). Telemann's Canonic Sonatas, from the Giedde Collection – PDF file
- Sonate di Flauto a Solo …, 12 sonatas by Robert Valentine. Printed score.
Scores on-line
- Basse Dance Project, online scores from Russell Almond (USA) – PDF file
- Music Viva: Free Sheet Music Archive, online scores in PDF & GIF formats
- Online scores from Víctor Carbajo (Spain), in PDF format
- Online scores from Gene Casti (USA), in PDF format
- Online scores from Early Music Chicago (USA), in MUS format (requires Finale Viewer plugin) or PDF formatOnline scores (most to purchase) from John Hawkes (UK), in Sibelius Scorch format
- Playing Together, easy music for children, scores in GIF & PDF format with MIDI files to listen to, from Peter van Marissing (Netherlands)
- Recorder Music, online scores in PDF format from Christian Mondrup (Denmark), with MIDI files to listen to.
- Obres i arranjaments per a flautes de bec, online scores in PDF format, from Joan Vives (Spain)
- The Kitchen Musician, online scores in GIF format suitable for many instruments, including recorder
- Serpent Publications, scores in abc, pdf, and MIDI formats from Laura Conrad (USA)
- Music, online scores with audible accompaniment scores from Daniel Laberge (Canada), including some for recorder
- Stefan Karpiniec (Australia), free online scores, including some for recorder
- Tidepool (USA), online scores in PDF format for recorder
- Archiv der kreuznacher-diakonie-kantorei, online scores (including arrangements for recorder) from Helmut Kickton (Germany)
- Online Scores from mfiles.com (UK), for which you will need Scorch,
the free Sibelius plug-in. The plug-in allows you to listen to the
files, too. Includes a number of items for recorders, including original compositions by Jim Paterson
- Recorder Music arranged by Yoshitaka Fuii (Japan), online scores in PDF format and MIDi tunes. In English and Japanese.
- Groeswen Music (Wales), online scores and MIDI files of tunes from around the world to play along with. A site for children.
- Sibelius format scores for recorder, from Canzona Music Productions (UK)
- 8notes.com, free downloadable sheet music from David Bruce in Sibelius, GIF and PDF formats, also MIDI files
- Free Scores (France), directory of free sheet music, from Victor Reny (in French and English)
- The Choral Public Domain Library, from Rafael Ormes. Contains more than 1000 choral works in PDF, MIDI, ABC, Encore, Finale, MusicXTex, Noteworthy Composer, Score formats, etc. Many of these are suitable for recorders
- Musica Viva, free sheet music downloads, including compositions & arrangements for recorder
- Stefan Karpiniec (Australia), original compositions and arrangements, including several for recorder
- Mutopia, archive of scores typset using GNU Lilypond by a team of volunteers. All the music is downloadable for free as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files (both A4 and Letter paper sizes), as well as Lilypond's own LY (.ly) file format. Audio previews of the music are available as MIDI files. A few of these are suitable for recorders.
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Printable scores, arrangements for recorder & guitar by
Michala Petri & Lars Hanibal, from SheetMusicNow.com
(USA)
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The Werner Icking Musical Archive Printable scores in PDF format. Includes recorder music by Heinz Irsen, Christian Mondrup & Johan Helmich Roman.
- Electronic scores for recorder consorts, from
Dolmetsch. These files are in Sibelius format, for which you will need Scorch,
the free Sibelius plug-in. The plug-in allows you to listen to the
files, too!
- SibeliusMusic, electronic scores in Sibelius format, for which you will need Scorch,
the free Sibelius plug-in. The plug-in allows you to listen to the files, too! Amongst the many composers and arrangers represented are:
- www.Edition Global.com (Denmark), purchase scores on-line and print them requires installation of the SafePrint Active X plug-in
- Online Music Scores, index from Gordon J. Callon
(USA)
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